In any case, I'm glad you got to try it out. I was curious as to how it compared to your Voyager...I suspect the answer will be "no where close"
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I couldn't disagree more. And believe me, I want to agree. I really wanted to like analog since I own it with the suite, but the raw oscillators come nowhere close to Sylenth1. And the filters aren't even in the same league.Poster wrote:just downloaded the Sylenth demo to hear what this fuzz is all about...
not impressed really.. (not judging the utterly fugly trance presets it comes with)..
I A/B'd it with Analog, only 2 oscs and the filter, all FX off.. they're very close and alike..
mind you that Sylenth comes with a butt load of inhouse FX and a A-B oscillator section..
if you strip it to the bare minimum all this 'powerhousing' is gone..
its a great synth, but i.m.o. not as good as some are trying to claim it is..
Analog is at least on par when it comes to raw oscillator/filter power..
I'm the last to say such things..nebulae wrote:I was curious as to how it compared to your Voyager...I suspect the answer will be "no where close"
aah, excellent point. However, I'm still writing a complaint about you:Frederik654 wrote:I guess I mean that 'maybe' there is no point in having synths win a 'best of' when it comes to sound. It can by it's capabilities, visualization and price tag, but not by it's sound.
To me the most common thing that doesn't get emulated nicely so far is analog resonance.Poster wrote:I'm the last to say such things..nebulae wrote:I was curious as to how it compared to your Voyager...I suspect the answer will be "no where close"
I've owned a fair lot of analog hardware.. the Voyager is absolutely the cleanest of them all..
VST's come very, very close when it comes down to this so named 'analog' sound..
The newer the analog hardware (Dave Smith, Moog) the closer a VST can come i.m.o..
Because still the hardest part to emulate is the sloppyness, the unpredictable and unstable circuits..
No, slightly detune an oscillator with an LFO doesn't cut it.. theres more.. its alive..
The 'character' my MS20 had is something I never heard coming out of a VST..
It was totally unpredictable and unstable, which gave it that nice charm..
In fact it turned out it was broken.. the internal power supply unit had a flaw that made the whole circuit unstable..
Now that unstable was good! but because the LFO was totally out of order I had to get it fixed..
Once I got it back it sounded so clean, so stable.. sigh..
The real reason I still prefer hardware over VST is the dedicated interaction I have with the instrument..
Soundwise software can do a lot more and is just as good as contemporary analog/digi hardware..
Its just still that small 'undefined' factor that makes the difference..
+1lola wrote: To me the most common thing that doesn't get emulated nicely so far is analog resonance.
I never heard a vst which can do proper selfoscilation and has a nice reso like analog does have.
For example, those free tal-uno juno60 vst which are very nicely coded are not capable of doing this... with reso open it just sounds like a clean sinus wave.