Instruments • Re: The Legend HZ by Synapse Audio now available!

I tried the demo and deleted it later the same day. The Legend still doesn't sound the best without effects. Synapse Audio is just behind the curve for analog emulations now in terms of sound quality. If you add a bunch of effects LHZ sounds better, but you can do that with lots of synths. If you want an analog-style synth with lots of modulation, this is a great solution for that, certainly.

It was also easy to compare LHZ in mono mode vs Model 72, and 72 still mops the floor with LHZ when it comes to the raw sound to me. LHZ lacks the "punch" of Model 72, though LHZ is clearly better at pads

I'm enjoying the new impOSCar3, for example, more than LHZ. And it also sounds better to me, overall, and at least as "analog" as LHZ if you dial up the Volume (soft sat) and Drive (hard sat).

LHZ is definitely a quality analog-style emulation for sound designers. People not fitting that, like myself, may want to look elsewhere.

I still don't understand why the comparison between ImpOscar and LHZ outside of them being both loosely based on analogue tech.

Even at that we're talking to different eras of analogue. Fundamentally ImpOscar sounds like an 80s synth and LHZ sounds like a 70s synth.

If I want thick soupy analogue pads or bone shattering bass it's going to be LHZ all the way.

If I want aggressive cutting leads or bright airy pads it's ImpOscar.

100%. impOSCar 3 is awesome, but it seems to have more in common with Icarus 3 than The Legend HZ. I also keep hearing people calling impOSCar “more analog” sounding, which is pretty ridiculous, considering how lo-fi digital the 8 bit oscillators sound. Not sure if the new wavetables are higher resolution… I’ve been too swamped with a milestone delivery to dig into it.

I personally feel it’s awesome. When I want a simple Moog bass, I’m going to my ATC-X anyway, which has Moog cloned oscillators and filter (alone with 303, SEM and ARP clones) and sounds fantastic. The Legend can sound very similar, sometimes identical, but the beauty of it IMO is using it as the Moog poly that never happened, and the HZ version just adds that much more awesome power to the mix. Notice that Zimmer didn’t ask GForce for a bespoke version of impOSCar, though if he did, it would probably look like impOSCar 3.

Anyway, two different synths with different feature lists and very different characters. I’ve got no problem with someone preferring one over the other, but I personally think it’s awesome to have both of them. I find it boring to work with the same sorts of tools over and over.

Statistics: Posted by Echoes in the Attic — Fri May 17, 2024 12:11 am