Whats your go to vst synth?

Hi all im using sonar platinum and loving it for making trance/house and have added to my sonic arsenal buy getting synthmaster 2.8, serum, sylenth1! Synthmaster was my favourite but sylenth1 sure gives it a run for its money and serum...wow that thing is amazing. Great for basses and any sound you can think off, and was wondering what synths do you guys love and why?  

I wish I could say Reaktor.  I don't know how to use it yet,

Synthmaster Everything Bundle.

I would probably say SynthMaster too.  And since you already have version 2.8, you may want to check out the crossgrade to SynthMaster One for $29.  It's only got two oscillators, but they sound good, and plus they have added 100 wavetables.  The simplified GUI makes dialing in a new sound a snap.  It might be great for what you want to do.

Synthmaster One but before that it was Hybrid.

abacab
I would probably say SynthMaster too.  And since you already have version 2.8, you may want to check out the crossgrade to SynthMaster One for $29.  It's only got two oscillators, but they sound good, and plus they have added 100 wavetables.  The simplified GUI makes dialing in a new sound a snap.  It might be great for what you want to do.

I gave synthmaster one demo a try the other day and loved it! so ill be getting it today as its a no brainer. The sounds are fantastic i thought and the price as you said $29 how can you go wrong...i forgot to mention z3ta+2 it was about $59 and that thing was amazing! its not the nicest to look at but sounds great. 

Well i pulled the plug and just bought synthmaster one and its fantastic its so light on the cpu just like its big brother synthmaster, i do like hybrid 3 i forgot all about that beast and the subtractive and wavetable synthesis makes for some great sounds! cheers 

Kontakt.  Sometimes for drums, often for bass, usually for pianos/EP/Organs, acoustic instruments.
 
At times in the past, Rapture was a go-to as it's fairly easy to get some unique textures out of it.  Dimension Pro got a lot of play because it had a variety of interesting sounds.
 
Triangle II and Pentagon used to see a lot of action as well.
 
I only recently picked up Synthmaster, but I can see why you might want to put that on everything if you were primarily into electronic music.  It's capable of a pretty wide variety of good sounds.
 
 

musichoo
Synthmaster. Upgrade it to everything bundle and get synthmaster one free. You will get 3.0 free too in the future.

Any word on when synthmaster 3.0 is coming out?

I can't think of any one synth - hardware or software - that I gravitate to. I'll use "whatever" when initially working out the instrument arrangements to a song, and when that's done I'll go searching for the best instrument for a particular track. Could be software or hardware. Sometimes the original tracks might even remain if I got lucky on the initial tracks. 
 
The only common denominators I can think of is EZDrummer....It's fast, easy and lightweight to get things started, but it may or may be there in the end. For organ parts. I'll start with VB3, (which is fine "sometimes") but in the end if my Hammond / Vent / amp / sounds better, then VB3 goes bye-bye. Same for bass. Bass could end up being a Kontakt bass or the real thing in the end, but starting out I'll use a VST of some sort to work out the bass lines.