One of the best things about Vanguard is the interface (outside of the color). You have everything right in front of you. Anything that Vanguard has to offer is on the main interface every time you load it up. You can even save the sounds that you have created yourself (which you can do on almost any plug in now). Vanguard is worth the money spe...
I like how it's user friendly in the sense that I don't have to turn 50 knobs to get the sound I want. I can just look it up via categories. Easy for a guy like me who isn't a total synth nerd. The value is pretty good. Not cheap but darn if you don't get a ton of sounds here. And all great quality too. That's the thing for me. Every soun...
Now to the sounds, to be honest the presets are not very good. I do enjoy the gates and some arpegiators, but the leads are pretty generic. This doesn't mean the plugin isn't good. You can, of course, create your own sounds very easily. Creating sounds in Vanguard is actually a very easy experience. Since all the filters, oscilat...
The overall sound quality of Nexus is good, but the variety is not. Expansions are pretty much guarenteed to be needed if you want more than generic dance oriented saw synths. I prefer the Dance Orchestra expansion. The sounds fit into beats very nicely. One big problem I have with Nexus is the fact that the sounds aren't very tw...
This VST is brilliant for dance and club synths, and is jam packed with nice leads and thick pads. Lots of the synths do however sound nearly the same. They sound brilliant in any RNB or Hip Hop song. The VST also has a nice range of pads and atmosphere sounds for the backdrop. There is quite a few filler sounds in this VST that are just there f...
The sounds that come with Nexus as presets are beyond any other plugin I've ever used. The quality that comes out of nearly all of them is industry ready. I love the expansions that can come with Nexus too allowing even MORE sounds than the already comfy 8 or so GB that come stock with the plugin. The only problem is some third party expansions ...
If you're interested in free software, and specifically software synths, I'd definitely recommend looking at the reFX Claw. It's not a ground breaking piece of software by any means, but it can be useful and it's free so there's really no excuse for not at least trying it out. The sounds definitely aren't the most realistic, but they're useful...
Here's the thing; I was always a huge fan of analog synths over their digital counterparts. I always maintained that they were warmer and could potentially be "dirtier" than digital. I still think this is true now, as these synth presets I find cheesy, overly glossy and generic. I find that these things could be used to make good music in someon...
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