Help me pic a synth!

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BasedAlaskan

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Yo yo yo what up my fellow beat makers. After practicing like crazy I'm starting to make some banging beats and I'm trying to step up my synth game and need opinions on what I should get. What do yall work with and why? I have massive and love it but am considering Sylenth or Nexus. Any advice is greatly appreciated. I make trap and some lofi beats peep the soundcloud if you want to listen to my stuff soundcloud/yungslug666
 
Sylenth and Nexus are pretty old now, I would recommend something a bit more up to date. I mean, sure, if you want the sounds all the copycat artists are using and nothing else, then get nexus, but it limits you to the same sounds everyone else has already used

Have a look at UVI Falcon, Serum, Harmor, Z3ta 2+, FM8 and Synthmaster. They are all really good for sound design, some are specialists in certain kinds of sound design, (e.g. Serum is a wavetable specialist, FM8 is an FM specialist, harmor is an additive specialist) but any one of them would give you enough things to tweak to keep you set for life... most of them also have demos so you can give them a little test run before buying, which is nice.

Read the manuals too and see what sorts of features they have.

(I'm assuming you know sound design btw. If you don't this advice is useless)
 
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Nexus is a rompler but it does have synth sounds in it.
Massive and sylenth are capable synths and are just fine if you actually feel like using those types of synthesis.

I retired fl studio myself but kept vst format for open collabs and it seems like serum's the new one to use.
I'd recommend omnisphere and serum since if I was to main fl studio again I'd be on that.
 
I would recommend going for the komplete NI bundle.....that is unless you want to eventually accumulate a lot of individual plugins to upgrade.
 
Massive is already a BIG thing you have. Sylenth and Nexus.... yes I never used them but they are old as it seems to me. Why use them when you have Massive. Recently, Loom (or not recently?) came out. It is an additive synth and is very capable according to walkthrough video.
You just need a synth with many options like Mass., explore and find to your taste. It's much about how it is designed. For example some use semitones, some ratios (1.3333, 0.5000) and I like semitones(+fine tuning). One great sound will go out of a synth easily, but if another is used, you will spend a hour trying to get the same sound or won't make it, I usually give in and return to other synths.

(I still can't make an amount of worthy sounds in Sytrus. I just gave up. Some people have been Sytrus for many years and continue and make impressive sounds with it)
 
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