All instruments are available on both PC and Mac in both 32 and 64 bit except as noted. Let’s start with some basics like prices, formats and authorization mechanisms (a show-stopper for many). Finally, I’m not going to sprinkle screenshots of various features throughout – if I did, we’d need so many it would just be a distraction. If I say “unlimited”, I of course do mean “within the bounds of what your CPU can handle”. The term “wavetable synthesis” means the commonly accepted (but often mistakenly applied) meaning that the oscillators can seamlessly morph among two or more different waveforms with a position control. If I say something like “instrument X has “the unique capability …”, I mean unique just among the three under consideration. For brevity I will be dropping the numbers from the instrument names. No, these are the big three “luxury vehicles” by many peoples’ accounting, and they deserved to be grouped alone in an elite class.īefore we begin, here are just a few notes on conventions. We don’t include synths like Synthmaster (just one of many examples) because it is lower-end as far as sample playback goes and is not multi-timbral. We don’t include Kontakt here because it has no synthesis capabilities. Why these three instruments in particular? They are all multi-timbral, sporting multiple MIDI input and audio output channels, they are all feature-rich hybrid synthesizers and sample players, they are all relatively expensive and they all sound absolutely glorious. But make no mistake – each one of these instruments can be objectively called “smokin’-hot”.
Instead, the intent is to offer a survey of relative strengths and weaknesses so that the prospective buyer has a reasonable solid base of information from which to proceed with his own evaluation. There will be no final “and the winner is …”.
Well, when asked to judge which instrument is the most desirable from the group of Spectrasonic’s Omnisphere 2, Steinberg’s HALion 5 and UVI’s Falcon, that’s no easy matter either, but hopefully the outcome won’t start an epic war.Īctually, this is not going to quite be that kind of evaluation. Of course, in his case, the fact that the babes were all vindictive goddesses who would be more than a little displeased at not being chosen did not help matters. We offer a comparative feature evaluate herein.Ĭonsider poor Paris – not the city, but rather the fellow from Greek mythology who was tasked with judging which of three smokin’-hot babes was the most desirable. Omnisphere 2, HALion 5 and Falcon are all superb software instruments of incredible depth which offer an overwhelming list of capabilities.
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