What's your favorite software synth nowdays ?

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by SpyFx ✪ ✓, Aug 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM.

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What's your favorite software synth at nowdays ?

  1. Sylenth1

    1.1%
  2. Massive

    2.2%
  3. Massive X

    3.3%
  4. Reveal Sound Spire

    5.5%
  5. U-he Synths

    15.4%
  6. Arturia Pigments

    6.6%
  7. Xfer Serum 1 & 2

    12.1%
  8. Spectrasonincs Omnishere & Trilogy

    8.8%
  9. Kilohearts Phase Plant

    7.7%
  10. Korg or Roland soft synths

    7.7%
  11. Synapse Audio synths

    3.3%
  12. Other

    26.4%
  1. voidSeeker

    voidSeeker Kapellmeister

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    Where the fuck is Falcon on the list?
     
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  2. voidSeeker

    voidSeeker Kapellmeister

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    Falcon
     
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  3. Djord Emer

    Djord Emer Audiosexual

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    Oh yeah, forgot about Falcon. I don't like it tho, it feels like operating a machine with 9283492384 layers and 9238492348 expansion packs.
     
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  4. vi404

    vi404 Newbie

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    I am not a invested sound designer. More of a sound explorer and preset tweaker. And I always fall back to 'surge'. Its presets are way more versatile, covering all genre and usable compared to serum, pigment etc in my opinion.
    'Knif Audio Knifonium' is another synth I discovered few months back. It fits right into my kind of music.
     
  5. nishyp

    nishyp Ultrasonic

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    So many reactions to SQ8L I had to look it up!

    I recently built a mini PC for 32-bit stuff to relive my teenage years, so it was the perfect opportunity to see what the fuss was about.
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    (This is Windows 7 32-bit skinned as Windows XP for full nostalgia)


    I've been lost in this synth for an hour messing around with factory presets :rofl:
    Thanks for sharing!

    I'm quite a fan of Sylenth1, idk what it is, but it feels like home.
    It was the first synth I actually took the time to sit down and learn
     
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  6. ArticStorm

    ArticStorm Moderator Staff Member

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    it is in other where it belongs.
     
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  7. ItsFine

    ItsFine Rock Star

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    Falcon is really impressive, yes.
    UVI do an amazing job on capturing sound.
    Their samples are top.
    Unlike a lot of Kontakt releases covering the same sounds, with "just above average" sound quality on samples.

    Falcon replaced most Kontakt banks on my side.

    But i still vote for KORG Modwave as my new innovative gem :wink:
     
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  8. Semarus

    Semarus Producer

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    GForce, Synapse Audio, and Arturia but not even Pigments. Used to use Zebra more, but doing more sample-based sound design to take its place.
     
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  9. clone

    clone Audiosexual

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    Serum2. The plugin is 2 mb. Great new features and changes like sampler, Clips, Arp, midi files dragable to it, lightning speed preset management and searching, backward compatibility without the additional CPU use to run older patches. Because it can make nearly anything, it's also a great all around go-to synth for any general purpose sounds or building new sounds when you do not know what you want there yet. The CPU use is one of the only common, valid "complaints" people have; but it won't be in a couple of years. We used the last version for about 10 years and people were using V1 until the day v2 was released.
     
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  10. Synth Life

    Synth Life Kapellmeister

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    OH HEYALLL yess

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  11. PoptartBoody

    PoptartBoody Noisemaker

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    My beloved Alchemy, stock logic vst :chilling:
     
  12. Dalmation

    Dalmation Producer

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    Dmitry Schez
    Surge Synth
    OB-XD
    Synth1
    Roland
    Waldorf
    GForce
    Cherry Audio
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  13. shinyzen

    shinyzen Audiosexual

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    Thorn is such a crazy synth. severely underrated. Shit, even i left it out of my list, when it should have been in there. Its a somewhat unique, powerful little synth. A joy to program, simple, basically one page UI. I wish it had a few more oscillator types / waves, and a couple more modulators, but its still a fav of mine. I love cooking up glitchy arp's in it, but its excellent for pretty much everything electronic, even some "organic" sounds.
     
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