Softsynth recommendations

[MBTC]

Found a little gem here that is worth the price I think.

http://www.hypersynth.com/oresus.html

[MBTC]

Originally Posted by MBTC

Found a little gem here that is worth the price I think.

http://www.hypersynth.com/oresus.html

Anyone else tried the demo or own this synth (Oresus)? I'm finding it to be spectacular, and it's quickly becoming one of my staples along side Zebra2, Sylenth1, and although I don't think it's as feature rich it might just sound better than both of them.

I'm into AvB type sounds as well as electro, but my ears are quite picky so I'm very rarely happy with what can be achieved with soft synths. I was able to quickly put together a couple of pluck and dreamsynth sounds on this one that I've never heard anything like outside of hardware. Something about the filters I suppose? Also, very impressive on CPU usage.

If there's a downside to it, it might be no compression or reverb on the plugin itself but to me it's a non issue, I'd just as soon put that on a mixer channel and not deal with it inside the instrument, besides if a vendor puts high-end reverb on the plug-in they just are likely to charge more for verb that's not as good as AAR for example. Also no arp (boo).. The last two comments probably explain why it's $45 instead of $200. Again to me an arpeggiator is something that needs to either be done right or not at all, so they apparently opted for the latter. Oddly, instead of an arp, there is a fantastic trance gate! Why these features must be mutually exclusive I'll never know. Anyway naturally we can do arps through the DAW, arguably a lot easier than we could do proper trance gating, so no biggie here.

I'm really curious to hear what some of you guys think about the sound of this one, as it struck me right off the bad in a way that not too many soft synths do.

[TheHobbit]

Try the KVR forums they may have some objective feedback ie overall usage, experience, any bugs, further development if developer is still active?

[MBTC]

Originally Posted by TheHobbit

Try the KVR forums they may have some objective feedback ie overall usage, experience, any bugs, further development if developer is still active?

Actually KVR is how I found out about it. Developer is definately active, its a fairly new plugin, just came out last fall and had a v1.1 update last month. I mostly posted here because, being a fan of the Virus sound I thought it's nice to get options from other VA lovers.

[TheHobbit]

Checked out the video and does have some nice sounds going on. Already purchased Zebra/Sylenth1/Z3ta+ this year amongst many others and got a lot to keep me busy for a while. Still trying to wrap my head around NI Maschine and how to integrate it into current workflow and setup...