Analog vs digital vs software. What's your preference and why?

trivialBetaState, 10 months ago

I love them all but my answer has to be digital.
Whenever I look into buying a new synth, I am always attracted by the features and complex sounds of the digital synths vs the pure sound of the analogue synths. Of course, I have plenty of plugins on my GNU/Linux DAW (Ardour) but I feel better and enjoy more playing a hardware digital synth and then finish (if I ever finish) my music on the DAW.

PinkDuck, 10 months ago

If I want to have fun, I play with the hardware, If I want to finish the track I use whatever will take me to the result I want faster. Mostly it comes to combination of hardware and software. And yeah, I'm not religious about analogue vs digital. In some cases analogue is better, in others digital

Lunyan, 10 months ago

I wish I could twiddle more with knobs but I'm just a student so digital is the only option I have really

technologicalcaveman, 10 months ago

After I graduated and started working, I started just pooring money into synths non stop. Before that though I was deep into software.

metaStatic, 10 months ago

software because I'm a dirty poor.

I love knobs as much as the next guy (gigity) but I priced my last VCV patch for real hardware and it was mind numbingly expensive, like Bezos would think it was a bit much.

technologicalcaveman, 10 months ago

Fair enough. I have a few analog synths and they're fantastic, but the endless options in software is appealing.