Sorry, I'm starting too many thread lately.

I know it will vary from sound to sound, track to track, but lets say for example you were wanting the best pluck you could get out of something like Sylenth, how many oscillators would you use?

3, 32?

I've tended to be a bit guilty of piling on as many osc's as possible to thicken the sound, but I'm starting to wonder whether this leads to loss of definition.

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1 or 2 osc. usually I feel it's more to do with what type if verb and how much delay. To getting a nice sounding pluck.

But I always layer them usually 3 layers.

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Are you sure you don't mean voices? Do any synths even come with any more than 2 or 3 OSC?!?

In terms of voices, I don't hear much of a difference beyond 12.

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number of oscillators doesn't matter here, they will only add fullness to the sound to reach the desired taste... pay more attention to the VCA and delay, avoid too much reverb most of the time... plucks are very easy to program...

A nice starting guide for you:

http://www.audiopioneers.net/forum/showthread.php?t=27

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Originally posted by Fledz Are you sure you don't mean voices? Do any synths even come with any more than 2 or 3 OSC?!? In terms of voices, I don't hear much of a difference beyond 12.

This, i think z3ta has 4 oscs, about voices 8 is the number for me.

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Originally posted by Fledz Are you sure you don't mean voices

Voices yes.

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the root of 13 oscs and e^2,4 voices.

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Originally posted by Richard Butler I know it will vary from sound to sound, track to track, but lets say for example you were wanting the best pluck you could get out of something like Sylenth, how many oscillators would you use?

There is no such thing as the "best pluck", in the same way there is no "best kick", "best pad" or "best cowbell".

In a given mix, some plucks are going to sound great with very few Oscs/ Voices, some are going to sound great with a heap. In a mix, everything relies on everything else happening around it.

This concept of "the best" won't help you in your production journey. It will mean you struggle to fit "the best" sounds into your mixes because they simply aren't right for that particular song. Sometimes sounds (such as plucks) which sound quite unimpressive on their own happen to be "the best" pluck for your current song.

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I almost took that one seriously mister Cyrus .

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A nice pluck has a lot to do with the filter env too. With some saturation it could sound fat

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