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Originally posted by RichieV you can easily make all those sounds with software. In fact software synths tend to be a little more innovative and generally more interesting as almost every hardware synth is just a subtractive synth.

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Well, I'd say Robbie made a semi wise decision, at least this way he doesn't need a soundcard. Honestly, its still stupid, but at least he won't screw up his audio quality going into his computer with a crappy soundcard.

Its really surprising that someone can be doing this for 6 years and still not have worked some of this stuff out

Oh yeah, and as far as Nord vs Virus goes, I find the nord sits better in the mix, and tends to sounds smoother and gentler. The virus is a great synth, only in that it's presets are really REALLY good, which gives everyone the impression that its fantastic. I don't really think the sound is that great in terms of oscillators or filters, but the presets are programmed so that its incredibly good fun to play with in a shop. I don't think its as practically useful as many other synths though, like the Prophet 08, Nord lead, etc.

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Anyone care to venture an opinion on the DSI evolver - something I'm very new to. The tetra looks a lot better but is too expensive.

Budget is £300 ($550). Considering other hard racks inc' second hand, and soft synths.

I have a steinberg MRX audio interface. I also have a keyboard - Roland fantomx7.

OBJECTIVE - I'm looking for a gritty sound good for rolling mid bases and nice low bases plus searinf leads.

I can get some out of sylenth / gladiator / imposcar and the Roland but I feel there is a better instrument out there for this that will really cut thru the mix. I could be wrong on this and just need to spend even more time editing sounds.

One softsynth I like the look of is ZEBRA 2, one which cryophonik recommends, and indeed one that someone on the anjuna forum has just made an awesome lead with (thanks luke desire).
Someone said I should be able to get the same lead out of Gladiator. I've tried, and it's nearly there (using a separate verb, distortion, heavy eq and a tracs deluxe compressor), but still not as good as that I'm hearing on lukes track using the zebra. The Gladiator lead which I built from the ground up, still sounds somehow soft and slightly less harmonic than I'm after.

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Originally posted by Richard Butler Anyone care to venture an opinion on the DSI evolver -

Evolver Thread

(BTW, the Mono Evolver Keyboard and Evolver desktop are the same synth, just that one has keys/knobs while the other has a matrix-style interface).

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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox Whats your biggest "urk" about hardware?

i dont know it didnt do it for me, and looking at it afterwards i really dont know what i was thinking. i got myself hardware-synths and drummachines because i wanted to work less on a computer (i had so much shit with windows back in the days, the only thing that never crashed was Reason). The result was even more work at the computer with midi, presets-saving all kinds of shit, man it was frustrating. I wanted to make music like i used to dj; standing up, live, looping etc etc. That shit never happened, not even close, it just became even more troublesome introducing hardware to my already shitty computer. end of chapter one. So i bought myself a DIY computer with great specs at the time (two years ago or something, quad-core etc etc). Installed a fresh XP and no bullshit apps but music related stuff. This computer worked perfectly without any problems at all really. But what the fuck man I couldnt use my hardware synths in Reason? Lol, how dumb was I? So i had to learn a new sequencer in addition to 4 VA-synths and two drummachines, midi-drivers, audio-drivers, my god it drove me crazy. So I sold everything, all the four synths, the two drummachines, the big nasty PC, big Echo soundcard and all midi-devices, headphone amps etc etc. All the shit gonne. And then I bought a mac mini and logic express but since the mac mini was connected to my TV as a mediacenter nothing really happened production-wise. And then this summer i bought macbook pro, and finaly im starting to get back to producing. The longest shit lesson i ever learned but damn worth it (atleast considering future economics). If i ever get a hardware again it must be a groovebox or sequencer or workstation so i can go away from the computer completely. But it also need to have a good interface with the computer in order to export tracks, taking backup etc etc. Its not important though im starting to like making music on computer again because im never having any trouble anymore after getting mac. Thank you apple you saved my life lol. Now look at all the hater-replies in a while.

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Originally posted by cryophonik the other has a matrix-style interface).

I'm not sure I want one of those things installed in the back of my head unless i can learn Kung Fu in 5 seconds.

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Originally posted by Subtle -1

He is right that the most popular modern hardware synths tend to be just subtractive, or subtractive plus very limited FM. Virus is a notable exception, of course. Doesn't mean they're bad, just means that if you want innovative or unusual synthesis techniques the place to look is probably software.

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Originally posted by kitphillips The virus is a great synth, only in that it's presets are really REALLY good, which gives everyone the impression that its fantastic. I don't really think the sound is that great in terms of oscillators or filters, but the presets are programmed so that its incredibly good fun to play with in a shop.

Sounds like a (possibly personal) sound engineering problem. If presets can be made that are great as you described, there is no excuse for them to not be made by others. I don't know if you have checked out OS 3 for the Virus but it added a lot more character to the synth. I can't really hold too strong of an opinion here because its only my second synth to own, but I can tell you right now I will never, ever sell it. I think the Virus sound doesn't get the credit it deserves. It sounds amazing through my Yamaha HS80M's blazing at peak volume. F'ing bass rattling my chest....mmmmmm....

/\ Exactly I don't understand why its so obvious to some people and other people its not.

The virus is a fuckn dirt monster. "Maybe" you can get near sounds on soft synths but you're gonna waste your time fiddling with knobs for hours on end, layering, STILL to find your timbres sound nothing like the virus.

And besides, there is something unique about the virus in its tonal variations that a soft synth simply CAN NOT emulate.
But more then anything, I got the virus to see for myself why it seems the gold standard in trance music.

If I ever hear one of these ss guys saying "I can make a virus sound with my software", I'm gonna bang out a blazing synth line and tell him to eat it. Its not happening. You are in denial.

Virus simply rapes software like z3ta, I'm getting tired of people sticking up for software that cant compensate, its a joke.

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