My vote goes for VPS Avenger 2

 

Synapse Legend HZ and a close second would be Arturia Pigments.

 

I'm on Harmor right now. I am fighting with it to see if it can actually be an all in one.

 

One of the computers at a tech school I was at a few years ago had Massive X installed, was playing on and off with it and eventually I claimed my free version from an akai deal, I should get back to it and shred some waves, but I’ve been into VCV a lot lately especially since I got some premium modules for my birthday

 

My only issue with that one is it gets very cpu hungry at times… hoping once I get an M4 Mac it’ll subside or at least not be so demanding

 

The same DUNE 3 as it's been for ages. And it's not even in the list, WTH

 

I’d say VCV Pro 2 is currently the favorite right now, but I don’t usually pick favorites… if I could only have so many I’d pick

VCV
Falcon
Pigments
Omnisphere
Massive X
Serum 2
Chromaphone
Absynth
Alchemy (if I had the space for it…)
Korg Triton

there’s probably more like multipoly native, Surge XT, Multiphonics etc. there’s a bunch I can’t remember them all… I know Zebra might resurface to the top…

 

Diva pretty much.

 

montage m , uad polymax, legend hz, kontakt.

 

DSP 56XXX OsTIrus (Access Virus Ti2), Vavra (Waldorf MicroQ), nodalred2x (Clavia Nord Rack2x) is BEST soft synths today.

 

Phase plant. i feel like i can make any sound i want or imagine with it

also something about how it looks makes me feel like im in the future, which helps with sound design (also it has a lot of skins). though especially after i make a patch and i see all the graphics moving all sci-fi and hi-tech like. makes me feel like i made something cool thats alive

 

Zenology is my fav, and I wonder why no one talks about it

 

The SQ8L is amazing. Loads of libraries available on the net. There are 4 banks of sound included and you can import other banks into Bank A. Make sure you save the original Bank A before overwriting it! It's never crashed on me. It only uses a tiny amount of CPU power. How the program file is less than 1meg big I'll never know.

 

Second ostirus. Serum 2

 

I probably use Serum (original, haven't gotten to Serum 2 yet) more than anything. I really bounce all over the place though and tend to use VSTis that are emulations of vintage synths and kinda geared towards the sound or type of instrument I'm going for.

My fave to use at the moment is Gforce SEM. But my favorite changes with the wind.

 

Bringing back these virtual analog/digital wave monsters for the current day and refreshing the virus so it can lay to rest in a vst… that’s the stuff I might forget thinking of favorite plugins

 

if I had to pick just one, it would probably be Phase Plant (with all the snapins). There's nothing out there that can beat how versatile it is.

 

I find Zenology to be a good preset synth, but tweaking or building your own patches is a nightmare. Just not intuitive and i can't stand the UI. I do love one thing in particular about the synth though, and that's the xmod. With all the different samples / oscillator options and the ability to really tweak the xmod in the "pro edit", its awesome at making crazy whacky sounds. I do use it fairly often, but yah mostly as a preset synth.