looking for new soft syth...

[andrewbrewer]

i love some of my pricey virtual synths. omnisphere is preset heaven.

BUT, on a lark, i downloaded oatmeal, and man that thing has one of the best randomize buttons ever! i feel like i just hit it a few times and eventually land on something i like. I use oatmeal quite a bit these days!

[guntop]

to answer the question, the sound i'm going for is a type of electro/progressive house/glitch sound...i guess. ive tried to get help genrezing it, but no ones sure. i'm also looking for that huge dubstep sound though, but not necessarily that style. this is why i want something super versatile as i'm still working hard on finding my own sound. best i can say are my favs and inspirations: justice, prefuse 73, deadmau5, edIT, telefon tel aviv, noisia, skrillex, elliot lipp. if that gives a more specific idea of sounds im after.

Fxpansion Strobe is perfect for all of these electro/progressive house basslines and overall basslines.

For Skrillex screaming basslines NI Massive is your friend.

For synth/lead sounds most synths are capable of creating warm plucks or other sounds. I know that some producers use old Z3ta+ (i'm not fan of it's ... GUI - hate it to be honest ), latest Synapse Dune and to be honest tons of other synths. It's rather a question whether you are a preset whore or you like to create presets from scratch.

If you're preset whore, I would pick a synth which has plenty of third party libraries covering your genre.

To be honest any synth will do. For example this comes from Toxic Biohazard, a synth which has a factory soundbank filled with atmospheres, ambient sounds
http://www.getdropbox.com/u/756231/mp3_ ... eads-1.mp3
http://www.getdropbox.com/u/756231/mp3_ ... _world.mp3

or very old V-Station
http://www.getdropbox.com/u/756231/mp3_ ... -demo1.mp3

I would recommend Toxic Biohazard, pretty unknown synth - it has 6 oscillators, it can load custom waveforms, it has nice, easy to use FM Matrix, it has EQ, nice Lo-Fi effects, Delay, Reverb etc. It's capable of creating modern sounds good for electronic music. If you want something more popular then probably Synapse Dune would be a good choice.

Or buy some third party libraries for Ableton Operator. Just pick one synth and master it.

You may want to read the first post again. Didn't sound like a "preset whore" to me.

yes def, im not into presets, (not that i'm against them or am one of those anti preset snobs) but the programming is why i went to electronic music in the first place. creating the tambres and sounds and tweeking them out the way i want is the best part. totally awesome.

well in any case i got komplete, just waiting for it to get in. done some preliminary studying and im super ready to get it. so just wondering if you guys have any tips for getting started...head's up or what have you?

[guntop]

bah...just thought of it...how about starting off by looking over some demos...