so I've put all these possible Sylenth1 64-bit alternatives to the tests and here are the audio files and my thoughts
note that this is a supersaw test, all the synths were set to have an open lowpass filter, either 12db or 2 poles (which I'm pretty sure is the same thing, correct me if I'm wrong)
here's the Sylenth1 patch I tried to recreate:
quite simple really, just a regular supersaw patch that many synths could recreate? WRONG
I've spent the past few weeks trying to find a synth that could sound anywhere close to this simple Sylenth1 patch
so I've uploaded some audiofiles of my latest test
320kbps MP3s are attached, 44.1khz 24bit samples can be downloaded form
here
"4 octave" is just simple 4 octaves, first synth you hear is Sylenth1, and you hear it again after every synth being tested
the synths being tested are ANA, Massive, Strobe, ElectraX, Saurus, Zebra2 and Dune
I placed them somewhat in order as to which I though sounded the closest
"chord" is a simple chord, order is the same as the first test
"chord progression" is a chord progression from one of my upcoming tracks, it basically goes from Sylenth1 to the synths being tested in order
that test was kinda pointless but I figured I'd upload it anyways
after that you have every synths playing the same chord progression all the way through, each audio file is labeled accordingly
some notes:
a lot of the synths I tried are very different form eachother, but I tried to make them all sound as close to possible to Sylenth1 without utilizing any EQ
Strobe is actually being played at 4x oversampling which hogged down my CPU like a mofo, in a real life situation I would just use it a 2x oversampling with some EQ or added resonance from the filter to make it brighter
Massive is one of the closest ones for some reason, weird specially because it's a wavetable synth as opposed to the rest
Dune couldn't get nearly as wide to Sylenth1, or any of the other synths even, kind of weird because a lot of people compare them like if they could sound the same... I guess one could ways use some sample delay to make it as wide
ElectraX was a complete pain in the ass to make stereo, had to set two oscillators for each octave (each had to have it's own layer) and send them to separate filters so they could be panned left and right, also it sucks that the ultrasaw oscillator only goes from 3 to "multisaw" (who knows how many saws that is, I'd have to check the manual)
Saurus sounds really good to me for some reason although it's not very close to Sylenth, the 4 voice unison limit is kind of a bummer, but I made this work with one of the suboscillators
Zebra2 is cool but I couldn't get the oscillators to sound quite right, plus this synth is so damn deep that it'd be almost an insult to just use it for supersaws
ANA probably got the closest IMO, and could probably sound much closer with some EQ or a different filter since it's quite bright, really surprised with synth overall, closest thing to Sylenth1 out there probably
I wanted to have SynthMaster in the test as well but the 32-bit demo wouldn't work right, the sound kept going out when notes were below G2 or something like that, weird because the 64-bit version worked perfectly fine
anyways, thoughts, opinions or any other comments welcome!
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