I'm kinda new to musoc production, and was looking at VST plugins to buy. I noticed that, wherever I looked, four of them always seem to pop up as the most popular: Serum, Massive, Sylenth1 and Nexus. I have looked into them a bit, and it seems like there are quite a lot of differences between the plugins. I was wondering if comparing them like this would be fair:
Nexus - OS X Massive/Sylenth1 - Windows Serum - Linux
Now the reason behind this comparison is this: Nexus: A lot of presets, easy to access, high quality sounds, but for a relatively high price, and you can't really change the sounds. OS X is also easy to access, has a high quality interface, but its expensive you can't really change a lot about it either.
Massive/Sylenth1 have quite a lot of presets, not as much as Nexus, but these presets are actually changeable. The price is also quite a bit lower. The same applies to Windows; less expensive, interchangeable if you want, but changing is not necessary.
Serum doesn't have a lot of presets (or does it? I don't know actually, couldn't find a lot about it) but has presets made by others. You can emulate it to be exactly like the other ones, and actually cleaner than they are, but there is a lot that you have to do yourself. Change Serum with Linux and you could still say this. The price is, however, not really comparable with Linux, as Linux is basically free, whereas Serum costs quite a buck.
I was wondering if this comparison is a fair comparison. If it is, I can use this assumption to choose what plugin to buy, and if it isn't, I could use some tips on what to look at exactly.
Submitted January 25, 2017 at 12:51PM by ShiftWings https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/5q3wp1/comparison_between_vst_plugins_and_os_systems/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Wednesday, January 25, 2017