Hi guys,

First of all, i'm not looking for a best sounding synth

I'm looking for a synth that has the best categories as explained below

I am looking for a synth that has clear categories regarding bass, pads, and leads so that i understand the different kind of bass, pads and leads...

for example....

for bass there's deep heavy bass, sub bass, moog bass etc...

for leads, there's plucked leads, generic leads,euphoric trance leads etc..


thank you

 

you must be new here.... what? nobody said Sylenth1 yet?

 

Here, have a "synth-name-dropping"-umbrella.

There is no best synth.

 

3osc from fruity, duh

 

@samsome : you are looking at roughly 50 years of electronic music history (hardware & music genres) with your post. One doesn't learn this from synth presets.

 

Mixing stage goes after production of music. So you need to have something to mix on in the first place (or master)..

I think this is the main problem of today's industry. I didn't mix untill recently i can say. In Fasttracker there was no mixing, and after in Fruity 3 and Cubase i also didn't mix. I wanted to create something what i wanted to listen without having the money.

Cheers.

 

ElectroHouse, Trance, EDM, DubStep, BroStep, D'n'B: Spire, Sylenth1, Massive, u-he Hive, z3ta+ 2, DUNE2, ANA, Serum + hundreds of soundbanks for all synths
Multifunctional high-quality stuff: Reaktor5/6 + expansions, u-he Zebra, u-he Bazille, u-he ACE and other u-he synths, FM8
For analog-like stuff (electrobass, vintage leads'n'pads...) - u-he Diva, d16 LuSH-101, OP-X Pro 2, Arturia bundle, XILS-lab all, KORG MS-20/PolySix/MonoPoly, Poly-Ana, Togu Audio Line (all TAL synths), impOSCar2, oddity 1/2, ROLAND plug-out synths, Waldorf PPG3, Novation Bass-Station, MONARK (for NI Reaktor), LittleOne, Memorymoon, ME80 and many-many more cool almost analog stuff (many of them are almost true-analog, when blind comparison of real hardware and plugin show you subtle difference or almost no difference..)
Other cool synths: Waves Codex, Waves Element, Tone2 stuff (Saurus, Gladiator, Nemesis, and many more), Waldorf Largo, Waldorf Nave, Rob Papen synths, LinPlug synths
And: ReFX Nexus2, ReFX Vanguard
etc.

If you want only not so much synths for all-modern music with superhigh-quality synthesis: Spire, DUNE2, Massive, u-he DIVA, Sylenth1, Serum, Zebra, FM8 - that's extremely enough

 

I must say tho, altho a great synth, but for finding presets, i really don't like Sylenth1, or the similar ones.
There is no real preset option, just banks by number. Trying to find a preset can be really a pita if you have a few of them + expansions.
Because of that point exactly, i've been researching sound design and synthesis, doing tutorials and such.
Why having to go through presets, when you can recreate the sound you have in mind? It's much more productive, and dare i say fun?
So yes i do understand the "presets" frustration, but give sound-design a chance, you actually might like it

 

I would put z3ta+ 2 before Sylenth also. It has great fat sounds that Sylenth doens't have. I think Sylenth and Omnisphere are similar in sound, with lots of arpeggios. I use arps, but not that much...