So at the moment I have Alchemy, Zebra and ACE installed. Alchemy and U-he ACE do amazing noises so Massive became redundant for me. Massive just never quite did it for me and I mostly used it for cool noise presets which it excels at. I was using Absynth for some granular sounds, and because it can play samples but Alchemy does both better so I did not install Absynth when I switched to new audio computer. There is something I like about pure synths (no samples) It is such a beautiful sounding synth and can make all sorts of sounds that Alchemy couldn't. I have Alchemy, Absynth, Massive and Zebra.

It is fairly easy to work with considering its complexity. Longtime users here who can confirm or deny it?Īlchemy is excellent in that you can resynthesize sounds and use your own samples and audio to create sounds. Damn I really don't want to buy gear - I have enough, but this sound like the uber synth to me at the moment. Or is this only my first vivid impression? It's even moderate to the cpu. OK it's no FM synth, but besides this? I have the feeling that its very easy to design sounds from scratch with this. Mr.ergonomics wrote:I just used this synth the and my first thought was, ok I can chuck all my other softsynth away now (absynth, massive, zebra). Just my opinion, and again I use audio editing/effects/M4L to do a lot of what you could do with Alchemy so maybe you'd prefer it all in one package. A huge drawback I know, but it's still prefer it to Alchemy but that's me. Again very similar to Alchemy, except you can't load your own samples.

It does have zillions of samples that you can use to program (48gb), everything from analog synth waveforms to ebowed banjo to light bulb filaments, as well as VA softsynth capabilities. They are both way faster than other synths because of this type of modulation system. They call it the 'Steam Engine', very similar to Alchemy's modulation system but the interface has multiple pages so it's laid out a bit more clearly for me. Actually it's greatest strength is the way it's setup to create sounds from scratch. It's not a preset synth, although a lot of people probably use both Omnisphere and Alchemy that way. Tarekith wrote:Have you tried Omnisphere?

Absynth 5 vs omnisphere