LennarDigital Sylenth1 2.0

One of the tightest, feature-wise rather standard, VA synth gets a maintainance update and hits version 2. For some reason i could never get around to actually try the first version but often been told it’s “teh shit!”. Just had a play with the 2.0 demo and uhm, that’s one solid, tight, huge sounding virtual analogue.

As said, the featureset is kinda comparable to many synths out there, 4 oscs, 2 well-done filters, semi-extensive modulation facilities, an arp and on top 7 onboard effects (distortion, phaser, chorus, eq, delay, reverb & compressor). The demo version ships with 128 of 1024 presets which showcase pretty good what the synth sounds like. BIG. HUGE. Not to say PHAT. What it comes up with is far from being special, new, unheard or something similar but the way it presents them is a blast. And most of the time my aged dualcore cpu doesn’t care (2-4% average, 7-8% for some sounds).

+ Solid UI
+ 1024 presets (most of the 128 from the demo are bread’n'butter sounds for any kind of electronic dance music.
+ Economic CPU usage
+ Ease of use
+ Kaboom sound
- Standard VA-concept (Does it matter? Not really.)

For 139 € (excluding VAT) Sylenth1 is a reasonably priced workhorse available for PC and Mac. The demo version has limited modulation capabilities, a very nice “thanks for trying this demo” reminding sample and comes as well as a reduced preset library. The update is free for registered users.

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