Recommend new synth to buy! Highest quality for prog house, deep, dnb,

[tehlord]

For VST's look at FxPansion Dcam Synthsquad. Especially Strobe.

[AJ Reynolds]

Originally Posted by tehlord

For VST's look at FxPansion Dcam Synthsquad. Especially Strobe.

I own this and don't use it. It was an impulse buy. I'll sell you my license if you like. That will save you some cash.

[certifiedhumane]

hey thanks tehlord

aj can you elaborate please? do you not like this software or do you simply have no need for it? can you kindly explain a little bit about what you like/don't like, pros & cons that sort of thing? I care most about the sound quality and although everyone says it's the user not the program I usually prefer the pricier, expensive software that comes from a quality company vs something cheaper. . . Just a heads-up thanks guys any other recommendations?

[musicalm]

Check out everything from u-he for some amazing synths and effects.

u-he

[systematika]

I second u-he he's got some cool stuff. For sub bass I just use my tx81z. I don't know how they did it, but the plugins don't get close even though it's still digital and I've used the plugins for years prior. The sine waves on that thing will blow subs if you're not careful, especially with 2 op sine with 10% gain on modulation.

[Augsy]

Originally Posted by AJ Reynolds

I own this and don't use it. It was an impulse buy. I'll sell you my license if you like. That will save you some cash.

what did you not like about it? Honestly I can't say enough about the dcam stuff.

[samsam]

OP what you already got? Surely that's a consideration when buying new stuff?

[bruvvamoff]

Originally Posted by certifiedhumane

Hey I am looking to purchase a new synth for sound design and producing electronic dance-type music, mainly more progressive house that is NOT club oriented, some deep and techno-type music, some dnb or "intelligent" dubtep . .
I am more of a bedroom producer who is still learning, however I am fortunate enough to be able to buy higher quality synths and prefer going with the more professional quality software which motivates me to learn at that level! For example so you can get a sort of picture of what software I like, I am learning Spectrasonics' Omnisphere. This is the type of software I am looking at purchasing, either virtual or analog! I cannot decide whether it will be more of an all-around like the Omnisphere or more of a program that focuses on a particular sound-type or atmosphere and expands on that!

I have gone all over the place from going with something alot cheaper than planned and more for "sound effects" and making my rhythm section solid, something like Native Instruments Damage, to something more analog like Doepfer's Dark Energy II or Dave Smith's Mopho or Tetra for all around synth-making and sounds!

Can you guys also recommend some companies that are more "underground" or less heard of; for example I used to support a company called Tonehammer that was more of a smaller-type company that produced amazing software! I am really out-of-the-loop with regards to the different companies producing software these days!

Throw any recommendations you have at me and I'll gladly research my options I greatly appreciate it

Not underground, you probably heard of it already, but check out Virus.
The Virus Ti is pretty much limited only by the musician.

[explorer]

Sylenth-1
NI Massive
NI Fm8
Dune
Surge

[bug2342]

Bit hard to answer from your requirements.
So I´ll just throw some stuff at you and see what sticks.
Since it is a long post here are my favourites:

Accelerator, Reaktor, Pc3k, Bazille

Enjoy the following useless list...

Highend digital Hardware / VA:

- Accelerator with 2 expansions: Does wonky sequences extremely fast and has a huge low end. I bought it over the Virus, but that comes down to taste.

- Solaris: Serious sound design machine. Especially all kinds of audio rate modulations should work beautiful.

High End workstation (yes I know you asked for a synth, but these are beasts):

- PC3k: Probably the most versatile digital Synth hidden in a rompler...

- Kronos: strange interface (I hate touch screens), but some very good synth in there.

Old stuff:

- Yamaha FM? (especially Fs1r or tg77)

- The Casios (CZ, VZ)

- Hybrid is hip at the moment (e.g. microwave 1)

Analog:
I like the MFB stuff (yes, you said high end, but it´s still fun).
Intellijel based Eurorack would also rock...

Software/Hardware mix: The scope stuff is very nice (an Xite with modular 3/4 and Flexor scares pretty much every other synth). Nice FX, too.

Software:

- Bazille is still free and awsome:
KVR: Berlin Modular - Bazille 0.5

- Zebra is great (but I strongly dislike the user interface), also comes with an interesting small synth when you grab the demo.

- I still like the Virsyn Tera. It´s 10 years old by now, but still one of the more convincing hybrid semimodular thingies.

- Komplete is the obvious choice.
Reaktor is awesome and can do all kinds of sounds. With stuff like the Ampere modules it gets really easy to build great stuff. It also can be abused as quite decent FX.
Absynth, Massive and FM8 took a while to grow on me, but all three can do awesome stuff.

- Aalto is much loved (and sounds quite nice)

- the wonky stuff: I played a bit with SuperCollider and it´s fun.

There is tons more...
For software: just grab demos (where available) and play around.

[AJ Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Augsy

what did you not like about it? Honestly I can't say enough about the dcam stuff.

I just don't like using RTAS synth plugins with pro tools. I also use reason so I hope they make a synth for that platform. I think it's a good synth(s) but I'm not using it for stability issues.

[LotuZia]

Maybe try Oxium

HOME

Stellar analog sound + somme unique stuff that you can do only with it.

[MORDICUS]

What about yamaha an1x and roland jp 8000 ?

PEACE

MORDICUS

[Reptil]

budget?