Hi Tom. actually im going against the flow on this (as usuall)
Im not digging anything that brings a lot of noise to the workflow, and not Ram/cpu eaters in general.
If you like Massive, you would really like Surge. Its really the fastest surgical sound design tool ive ever come across, and ive been around a while. You do need to create the presets yourself. But let me tell you, just before I met you in Tokyo, I did something like 70 killahrg!1!!11 presets in just one day with Surge, and they became part of every track after that. While I did 3 on Zebra at the same amount of time. If you listened to our live set, I was using Surge a lot.
Synplant is also really great, but in a totally different way. Toyish and simple in use, yet its really great for quick and unique atmospheres.
others? Meh, I don't know.. Maybe ACE for its great sound and semi nice workflow, but its got only 2 lfos. And the patching is really cluttered compared to the simplicity of Surge. With Surge its just one click assign, and no visible virtual cables or cable sockets.
Took me 3 minutes to create a singing cat, using 6 LFOs and 4 envelopes with Surge.
I swear its so easy and fast, most people haven't "got" it yet.
GAFM ***
