What you are about to read is merely a comparison of two industry leading virtual instruments in order to help you understand the differences and similarities between them. This a far too subjective decision for one humble reviewer to ascertain, so please note that this is based on our personal experience and preferences.Īlso be sure to subscribe to our e-mail newsletter to stay up to date with the latest audio production and sound design news, deals, tutorials, reviews and much more: Submit It is, however, important to note that this article isn’t an attempt to determine which one of these beastly VSTs is ‘the OVERALL BEST’. We’ve all wondered how they compare to each other, and today, after thorough analysis of both, we will come up with a winner. If Arturia fixes this, I favor it over Massive, Sylenth, Hybrid 3, (no one can beat Serum, it’s just hard to program), Codex, etc (yes, i know Sylenth is not wavetable).Omnisphere and Serum: these two giants of the software synth world. As any analog funk synth programmer knows, detune and pan is a (old school) standard for rich sounds.Īrturia responded generously, stating that they are considering the feature request, but suggested unison for such (which is characteristic of techno but not funk if I am not mistaken). The “engines” cannot be panned independently. Unfortunately, there is a serious flaw in this VST. Also, as a fan of funk, I have always been on the search for a Monte Moir’s quality of analog patches that characterize Morris Day and the Time.

Many times I have created a patch, only to hear it the next day and hate it. It is intuitive to the extent that I don’t have to keep mental notes of what I am changing in case I don’t like the sound. Pigments has the most logical arrangement of programming parameters I have ever seen. I decided to spring for Pigments, as I figured Arturia would have a user friendly interface compared to the millions of VST Wavetable/Subtractive synths out there. Ever since made, yet another, excellent vst suggestion (on top of Blue 3 and IKmultimedia Leslie Collection) I have been enjoying Arturia’s V6 collection.

Arturia pigments vs serum