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I think maybe in many cases including some favorites listed above that bigness (balls) is loudness, upon opening some synths are louder. And taste, and our own hearing (mine sucks, teenager in the 70s, 3ft from Marshall walls)
I'm also pretty clear that there are coded differences among digital oscillators. This addresses differences in "fatness" and also gets into those synths that seem to cut, call it "edge", digital quality, etc.
Being a big time synth dork/slut/noob I'm very curious to hear from people who know about coding oscillators, related to the psychoacoustics of balls.
Tera all the way
Model 15 really sounds more fuller and ballsier than everything else I have, especially with eco mode disabled. But my go-to synths in terms of having balls and analog warmth are iSEM and Viking. I'm glad to have 2 very nice analog emulations as AU plugins. Been loving the AU environment much better than previous wokflow methods. Looking forward to more synths to get ported over to AU. Polysix would be nice as an AU if Korg would consider it.
I'm gonna throw Zed Synth in here as well. Absolutely gargantuan balls on this thing. And you can process live audio with synth engine with Audiobus. The only catch here is finicky knobs. You must keep your finger in the vertical lane of the knob when adjusting linear style as opposed to being able to hold and drag all over. Once I got past my annoyance at that I discovered how awesome it really is. Also one of the few synths I've seen that has a clickable signal flow chart doubling as navigation hub. Really easy to wrap your head around.
+1
Probably a lot of the same apps but this thread reminded me of this one that you might wanna browse. https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/3760/mean-nasty-dark-and-dirty
Yeah, think personal taste (and probably loudness) are really what it comes down to. And I guess what the OP means by balls. Grit? Edge? Thickness? Cut through a mix?
Also, can we start a band called "the psychoacoustics of balls" please?
Im just theorizing here but I think to successfully sell a synth with balls you got basically two routes: (using subtractive synths as an example) you can either have big fat juicy oscillators that sound full and groovy in most octaves and then rely on a small selection of some simple editing tools like snappy filters and a couple of lfos to get the job done (sunrizer). Or you can have less than stellar raw material and offer a shit ton of effects and routing modulations, something like Mitosynth for example. I'm not really a fan of synths that don't seem to fully commit to one paradigm or the other. Slightly partial to ones with great raw material though.
I know a synth has balls if I take its raw saw wave down into the lower octaves where you can hear the oscillations of the teeth and it doesn't make me want to gouge out my ears. Thick but not sharp, I dunno.
Which are the weedy insubstantial synths, then?
to my ears: nlog, whatever they got going on in the new Auxy, and I'm not a fan of magellans filters at all.
The idea for the post came from me buying some new hardware (excluding controllers) for the first time since 1993. They sound loud and are rich with timbre when recorded into Ableton. A lot of VST plugins and iPad synths however require extra effects to give them that oomph to sit well in a mix. I have a some ballsy synths on my iPad like the iSEM and the Animoog allready. I wanted to make sure I haven't missed some "balltastic" apps for the iPad. I've said this before that the iPad can sound as good as any VST/AU plugin for a fraction of the cost. Thanks for the replies.
Caustic is pretty boring and anaemic imh ears
agree with db909's opinion on Magellan's filters
cheers, Tom
Reinstalled and compared many different synths the past days. I came to the conclusion that if you disable all the effects (reverb,delay,chorus etc.) all synths start to give the same boring sound.
iTuttle has balls