Need Help Finding CURRENT Synth Sounds.......!!!!!!

[mojobone]

SHHH! The DX100 is one of my secret weapons. I'm told it's indispensable for certain forms of Chicago House, though that's not what I use it for. Recreating retro sounds is the one task where the presets are actually useful. I guess you could say sometimes, the cliche's the thing. If you need specific analog synths Arturia specializes in analog recreations and there's an FM software synth, forget the name, that can load all the DX7 patches floating around the internet since Noah was in diapers. But the thread's about, y'know, current sounds, LOL.

[Danny]

I read an article about the composers for Stranger Things, a very hot Netflix series. They talked about their production techniques and gear. About 90 percent of their sounds come from vintage analog synths. A few sounds come from newer analog synths.

Geez. Now I'm thinking about the times that the screeners told me that my synth patch sounded "Dated" .

[Strangesound]

I know what you are talking about because I'm not a synth guy per se as well, but I'm slowly getting the appeal of it. This might help and give a hint in the right direction. He's quite open about his approach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUGRbPLn-4

What I've noticed: Bright synth-sounds that sound exciting by themselves without too much tweaking (like slapping on a heavy hi-pass in a busy mix (400-500Hz-ish), reverb is cool, sidechaining to give life/rhythm (rhythm=life) to pad sounds.

Synths like Sylenth, Serum, Spire, Nexus really take the cake nowaydays as for Software synths. Test the demos out. I was amazed how great some presets sound which I could never come up with. Don't get me wrong, you can get these sounds from many other synths but what's equally important is the ease of use. Spire, Sylenth, Nexus and Serum work more or less in a 1 window mode so you can ponder about the actual sound and not being lost in a window-jungle. I sold Omni 2 some months ago because I didn't get the hang on it and it felt fuzzy oftentimes.

I don't know about you but I listend too much too people who keep saying don't mess with presets, do it yourself. I'm not that savy like these people so I have to take the other route. I'd rather have some tracks done, get the placements, get some dough and learn to program great synth sounds in a year or two while some placements keep spinning out there.

I also thought about getting a workstation like a Yamaha Motif where all sounds are already EQ'd nicely and are really sounding great.

In the end it's all about the right sound which you are "proud" of and put it up without any shame in front in the mix. This is hard to do with a weak, meak tone. Many producers seperate the composing process and the sound-design process. As Andrew from the Chainsmokers mentions in the video, it's like being a painter who spends 90% of the time on choosing the right quality colors getting the right mix/blend. He also mentions that they rarely layer sounds. They'd rather keep looking for another sound or tweak it up it's 95% there, which makes sense to me.

Don't forget the a real piano is in fact 1 preset, it is pre-set. A Telecaster has always a certain vibe pre-set and quality we love and never get tired of hearing. When I heared this, this freed me up immensely.

This post is a bit rand-y but I hope it helps a bit.

Edit: Found this one http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/int ... ing-530744