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[Synthoid]

Just thought I'd give this survey a shot.
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[GregC]

I am impressed by the Arturia softsynths. After I buy an audio/midi interface for my Apple PowerBook, I will add the Moog and possibly others.
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[RiotNrrd]

I had to vote "My whole studio is exclusively softsynths", although that isn't technically true. I DO have a Karma, a Triton, and an SY-77. But I no longer really use them. I now almost exclusively USE Reason 2.5, Reaktor 4.1, and Live 4. But there was no option for a mixed studio.

[laughing_bear]

My setup is changing, softsynths are a huge part in it, so will be Gigastudio, if they would only release version 3 finally. My piano needs will be served by a Promega 3, Karma is often part in the creative process, analog stuff on softsynths can be quite good such as albino 2 or moog modular etc, but I prefer the real thing and consider a studio electronics omega. Kontakt, I find it very powerfull and use it a lot. I usually have around 20 instances of softsynths in a piece, up and down.

I do not use freesynths at all anymore, I ran into too many problems with them, often poorly designed and not 100% conform with standards.

My favourites have to be Morphology, Atmosphere, Absynth, Cameloen and Cube, when it comes to pads and weired sounds. Trilogy is the ultimate for bass in my world, and X-phraze is like a karma on dope. I plan to make even more use of softsynths by using fxteleport.

Reason is good, but only when it runs via a different audio engine, the reason sound itself sucks big times, as "boxy and cheesy" I'd describe it, ok, you can use scream to beef it up, but it doesn't fix everything, I find it at best when rewired into Nuendo.

FX is very important to me and the likes such as PSP supply best of the best.

If I only could have 1 of them on the Island, I would take Kontakt with me, including that lacie with 250 gig of samples.

[Sharp]

Hi.

I picked the undecided option because I’ve had mixed results from anything I’ve tried so far. There’s no questioning the range of sounds and features available. The problem I find with them is that they can’t seem to offer clean notes when you play high notes.

Absynth especially comes to mind. It can sound absolutely awful on some patches when you start playing a high note. Where…. I have never experienced problems like that with my VA Synth (Virus), MOSS or Prophecy.

So at this point dedicated hardware just sounds far better to me. There’s also the fact that nobody will buy your software after you have finished with it years later. Where… I will have no problem selling my Virus KB. So there’s the investment side of this to consider too.

Regards.
Sharp.
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[Daz]

Like Riot I chose "Exclusively Software" ... although I actually use a mixture. I use Attack and Battery for drums a lot, EXS-24 and Kontakt for sample playback, NI Abysnth, Emagic ES1/2 for synth sounds and soon I will be using my Korg Legacy stuff more too, once my OSX setup is more settled.

[Lorenzo]

free soft synth for my powerbook (until a good release of kontakt will be released for osx)
regards, Lorenzo
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[Stephen]

Just haven't made the jump, so I voted undecided.
I know everyone is saying that soft synths sound great, but the only ones I've tried (Very Few, and not recently) really didn't stack up to the hardware synths I'm using.
Stephen
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[Daz]

[Drew FM]

Call me weird, but I just need real tacticle knobs & buttons with blinking lights, screens & LED's. I don't get excited about dragging a mouse over a 'widget'. I want instant acess to all the power that my instument possesses.

And here, I will get to the real nitty-gritty of it: When I use my 'real' instuments, I am they're commander. When I use my comupter, I am it's slave. And I just don't like that feeling the computer gives me when I am in a creative mode.



Andrew Ford Melton
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[RiotNrrd]

When I use my comupter, I am it's slave.

Heh. Since I'm a computer programmer, I'm used to bossing my machine around IN EXACTING DETAIL. Which is probably why using softsynths doesn't bother me.

[Sharp]

Hi Daz.

[dreamaiden]

[blinkofanI]

I'm pushed toward "the dark side" of soft synth a little more everyday. These days i only use Reason but i'm thinking of using it as sound module with my trinity's sequencer. Reason's sequencer is ok but using the Trinity's one is more ergonomic, less mousing around. After an hour or so of composing on the computer, i tend to have shoulder ache(or something like that, don't know how to translate that!!). Something i never experienced when i used to work on the Trinity.

As for live playing, if it wasn't for my Wavestation pitch bend who's doing crazy things in Reason, it would have been a while that i only bring the WS and iBookG4 on stage!!! The WS is just the perfect keyboard for Reason live(8-zone midi controller+ sounds don't cut off when you change performance number, lightweight but good action. Who could ask for anything more???)

Blink

[Synthoid]

I wonder how most audiences would react to someone using a cheap MIDI controller hooked to a laptop on stage? Seems a bit tacky to me.

Or take this a step further.....how would YOU react at a YES concert if Rick Wakeman was using the above setup?
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