Yeah for sure. Dune just sounds so clean and punchy....it also seems really thick in the mix, too, which I feel is where sylenth fell short for me....(it sounds good by itself but in tandem with a virus sound it seems pretty feeble IMO)
Yeah this whole thread has been really interesting but I'd like to point out that my original query, and maybe I didn't state it well enough, is that I can open up sylenth, the ES2, dune, whatever, go to ANY preset, and right off the bat get better sharp pluck sounds than I can create with 10 minutes of tweaking with the virus. I HAVE tried other soundsets, I HAVE seen that there are good pluck sounds out there, and if it makes any difference I HAVE read the manual cover to cover more than once.
I am not contesting that with the right amount of time spent with the virus that ANY sound can be achieved, I know that.
Simply put, for me it is weird that with other synths it is hard to NOT get accurate pluck sounds, when the virus takes some coaxing to get that sharp attack.
Please don't beat me up.
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