What’s your favorite synth for sound design? – Sound Design Forum

Although I’ve only been using it for 2 weeks or so, don’t sleep on VPS Avenger. This is possibly more powerful and comprehensive than PhasePlant, and close to Falcons breadth. In many ways, with the audio rate mods and FM, Avenger possibly defeats Falcon, and is definitely simpler to use.

That said, a synth doesn’t need to be multitimbral or complex to do great sound design with. Hive2 is a basic subtractive wavetable synth but can create really broad soundscapes. Huge power there.