LOL.Massive does have some really bad presets, and I do agree it's got a 'NI' kind of sound to it, but torture? Have you tried to program your own sounds? Have you listened to what Monark can do? (A Reaktor ens) I don't own it but I've heard some pretty great things come from it. I would break after about the fifth patch. You could actually torture me to give up almost any secret by simply playing back Massive presets. No offense, but Massive (in particular) and every Reaktor Ensemble that I have ever heard sound horrendously bad to me. When I first played ACE and Diva, I thought 'Wow, these actually sound pretty close to an actual analog synth.' But then I turned on my 'lowly' Matrix-1000 and realized that the Matrix sounds far superior and can be purchased for not much more than ACE and Diva. I've wasted over $600 on Arturia so I feel your pain there, and like $600 on Refx :( I can always get a better sound out of Spire than Sylenth, and I find it more flexible. But that’s about it.Īnyone else have soft synth buyer’s remorse?The only i'm surprised about on that list is Spire, especially since you still use Sylenth. The soft synths that I do still use from time to time are Omnisphere, Padshop Pro, and Sylenth. But since those are part of a larger bundle that I would have purchased anyway, I guess those don’t go in the 'regret pile.' Incidentally, I also don’t use any of the synths that came with my Native Instruments Komplete 9 Ultimate package (FM8, Massive, Reaktor, etc.).

I could have used the $1,200 to buy another cool hardware synth (e.g., a used MKS-70 with the PG-800 programmer). Here’s the list of soft synths and what I paid for them: So I decided to not even bother creating Instrument Tracks for them. I was setting up a new default song template for Cubase 7.5 when I realized that, with a couple of exceptions, I don’t even use any of the many synth plugins that I have purchased over the years.

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