I have spent about an hour playing with the DIVA demo and yes, it sounds terrific, it is true!
No denial from my side!
It’s a shame, nevertheless, that the demo is so intrusive with those back-noises that come about every 30 seconds to your speakers distracting you from the experience.
In general I would say it has a “pure”, beautiful silky sound, very, very musical and exceedingly aesthetic. FXs are fabulous! They are probably among the best effects I have ever heard belonging to the inner workings of a VSTi synth, true. It has great capabilities and possibilities with its extraordinarily versatile LFOs. A Moog? Is not a moog a tall, it is rather a huge hybrid synthesizer.
I would like to hear it along with in a few demo songs, music with my own flavor but I don’t have the time of doing it. Nevertheless, for what I have done and heard, I know it will work pretty well with all sort of musical endeavors. It is an extremely good instrument, and yes, it is outstanding
Said that, I could easily print a list of no less than 10 synths that come to my mind just right now, but there are many more if I think for a while, which also have exceptionally good sound, and all belonging to the VST world. Some of them, I can tell, coming from Arturia for instance like the Jupiter V8, Prophet V and Moog Modular V, all absolutely stunning, well thought instruments.
From here and on, you could start arguing with me about the fact that they are not as “fat” as Diva is and so forth, but that doesn’t mean anything to me. What it is really important, is the perceptions my ears have, this is the point and what you can do with these synths when used in music production. If you disagree, you will have to make an appointment with my ears, because they have already convinced me and know much more than I will never learn…
As I said before, being focused myself in testing synths most of all in music production environments, there are many synths that are irreplaceable, as useful as Diva, and certainly, not below in quality.
Talking about synths, let me say that one of my preferred synths of all times in Scope, (you’ll be surprised I know), it is the “Lo fi”, v1, by Hummel synthesizers, it sounds great! Warning! You will not like it! Yes, iff you play it alone, you will have a headache probably, and will not like it very much, but used along other instruments, wow, it really shines giving to your songs amazing textures, unheard from other synths. Now, because this is not an impressive instrument by itself, you will not pay attention to it, wrong!
One more thing I have to say: I have been building my own samples for years now, and there are no more suitable kind of sounds than those that I have created myself. Then I build them as instruments in any of the sample players I have, be it an STS or a VST instrument and there you go. I invite you guys, to create your own samples and get ready instruments to play whenever you need them, it is a great idea, we have the knowledge, the equipment, the instruments, the mikes, what are you waiting for!
