KVR Audio

damoog · Post by **damoog** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 4:51 am

Parsec,love that synth

Dunno if hardware is valid but Dave smiths PRO 2 is actually the best hardware synth I have ever used

dformd · Post by **dformd** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 5:43 am

Kaivo

Aleatoriac · Post by **Aleatoriac** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 5:51 am

Just realized how "outdated" all the synths I love to use are. I haven't bought a NEW one in years. Maybe they made them too well?

LuxLucid · Post by **LuxLucid** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:42 am

Another vote for Bazille. U-he is on fire this year (and if they release Hive...

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kokotte · Post by **kokotte** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:35 am

1: DUNE2
2: SERUM

mridlen · Post by **mridlen** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 1:25 pm

I'll have to vote Serum

dexterbella · Post by **dexterbella** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 5:53 pm

My vote goes to Blue II - a huge step up from the previous version.

sempondr · Post by **sempondr** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:16 pm

Serum - feels fresh and original among "Me Too" VSTi's
Blue II - it's great when developer keeps improving and building up existing stuff instead of churning out plugin after plugin.

kiezum · Post by **kiezum** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:41 pm

1) Bazille - this is my kind of synth...
2) Pianoteq 5 - finally bought it... I use it all the time
3) Kaive - just as brilliant as Aalto
4) Dune 2 - sounds sweet and low cpu use (when will the wavetable editor be released? I hope soon)
5) Blue 2 - I still don't like the interface, but it's beast of a synth
6) Codex - the easiest to program wavetable synth I ever used

I'm almost forgetting Dark Synth (Max for Live).

hibrasil · Post by **hibrasil** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 10:24 pm

Not that i've had much time to play with anything, but.... out of all the great things fellow devs have come up with this year Kaivo is probably the most interesting to me because it is using some cutting edge physical modelling techniques that haven't previously been seen in a commercially available synth (to my knowledge).

werp · Post by **werp** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 11:15 pm

Another for Kaivo.
"THE BELLS!.....THE BELLS!....."

Synthetic Wav · Post by **Synthetic Wav** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 12:03 am

Kaivo is great indeed, it can sound so real and so strange at the same time, i love that contrast

btw what sort of samples you like to use with it ?

bftucker · Post by **bftucker** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 12:44 am

Synthetic Wav wrote:Kaivo is great indeed, it can sound so real and so strange at the same time, i love that contrast

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JonSolo · Post by **JonSolo** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 3:47 am

Oddity 2 is really starting to blow me away. And it is rock solid. Bazille is right up there. There are more than a few in the running for me this year. Blue 2 is impressive, but so is Nemesis. The last few years have been harder to tell.

There are some you can eliminate because of bugs or lack of features. Some just are not intuitive or just don't sound good.

But that really is becoming the exception instead of the rule.

Kalamata Kid · Post by **Kalamata Kid** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 4:04 am

Will there be a tally?

Synth of the year - 2014 (your thought)