Best of 2015: We asked and you voted, choosing Spectrasonics Omnisphere – by a wide margin – as the Best New Desktop Software Synth Of 2015.
Omnisphere was already an extremely powerful synth. But with Omnisphere 2, Spectrasonics amps up everything, bringing new synthesis capabilities, an improved interface, a better arpeggiator, 25 new effects and a massive 10,000+ presets.
The long-awaited Native Instruments Reaktor 6 took the second place in our reader poll, followed by Arturia’s V Collection Classics.
Here’s the full list – check it out and let us know what you think of software synths in 2015!
The Best New Desktop Software Synths Of 2015
- Omnisphere 2 20.28%
- Reaktor 6 8.7%
- Arturia V Collection Classics 5.45%
- Hive Synthesizer 5.39%
- Falcon 5.02%
- OSCiLLOT 4.66%
- Rapture Pro 3.92%
- Waldorf Nave 3.8%
- Kyma 7 2.76%
- TAL-Sampler 2.45%
- Terra 2.27%
- Polytek 2.14%
- Dexed 1.9%
- Roland SH-101 1.78%
- Roland System-100 1.78%
Maybe for 2016 it’ll be time to break up mobile app polls similarly?
UVI Falcon will be on the first place in the 2016 “best of”
The best synth since long time, and sound very nice with the IRCAM fx.
Less “ready to play” than Omnisphere, you need to get your hands dirty.
Yeah, Falcon is amazing. It’s like the Choose Your Own Adventure of soft synths.
x-fer serum is from 2014 ?
If not..
Such a beast. The interface is one of the best i’ve ever seen on a synth and i come from a Ui design background.
Where the f is Serum???
2014: https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2014/09/28/serum-dream-synth-for-mac-windows-now-available/
Hey i work wity Sylenth i think it is one of the best synthesizer but i dont dee it in the ranking why?
Your answer is in the title of the this article… “The Best New Desktop Software Synths Of 2015”