Synthmaster is a great synth. I don't understand the hate. I've never had any problems with it, but I can understand people complaining about bugs. I don't understand the complaints about the sound though. It sounds great to me. The GUI can be a bit confusing at first, but every synth I have that can do a bunch of different stuff is confusing. Harmor, Synthmaster, MPowersynth, they're all confusing and I don't think it's possible to have a powerful synth that is also easy to use.

I didn't see any 'hate threads' over at KVR (nor here), but rather noticed a lot of 2nd had sales. Most of the people that have it in here actually praise it often (including me). Possibly the older GUI was turning off all the synth master's over at KVR? 

Mesh,
 
Hope it wasn't me implying a "hate" thread for SynthMaster going forward.
 
When my rig died awhile back, took it as an opportunity to only reinstall quality synths, and SynthMaster was one of the first. Not the first go to, but one of the must haves.
 
Some great organ emulations, and though the overdrive is a bit artificial, several presets that can give Kontakt a run.
 
Presets are so subjective, and the new upgrade has showcases from various contributors.
 
My point is that with the influx of 300 new presets, so few of them are useable in my space. If I had time, could ego trip do a much better job digging the gold out of this fine program. No disrespect for the time and effort of the contributors.
 
John

No worries at all John, and I actually didn't know you owned Synthmaster or had commented on it.
I was simply replying to Chandler's post and what I had noticed from user comments/posts.
 
I'll make some time to check out these 300 presets and newer GUI over the weekend.

If you're into recreating classic synth sounds AND you're not interested in programming them yourself, Synthmaster + the Nori Ubukata libraries is the way to go.
 
OTOH, if you like to roll your own patches, Synthmaster will require a significant investment in time and effort to become comfortable with the UI.
 
But the same can be said of my go-to synth, U-he Zebra. Because I am not primarily a synthesist, I've elected to put that effort into just one synth (Zebra) and skip Synthmaster and many other worthy products. But if he keeps adding presets at this rate, I may eventually get it anyway and just use it as a ROMpler.