It is pretty powerful! There's some really amazing presets in there too. I just found a new favorite yesterday (The Fabulous Chippy FM West Coast Lead by Kinsey Dulcet).

It's pretty good at FM, and you can't beat the price!

Yes it is! They're really good synths and a great way to get started into sound design!

Well, so far I only have one start to finish sound design tutorial in Surge XT, but I do have two "how to use it" tutorials, and more on the way!

It has a step sequencer LFO type. You can use that for all sorts of interesting modulation effects, including pitch modulation. Good question!

It seems a little intimidating at first (like most synths), but when you get to know it a bit, it's actually not too bad to use!

I got out a pretty interesting soundwave using filters, envelopes, and a combination of two waves after 4 hours of messing with it. I'm not minimally educated in music, and it was my first time using anything music related. I didn't even know what a DAW was or why I needed one, much less how to include a VST plugin (also didn't know what that was). All in all, 4 hours seems like very little time for the sheer amount of stuff that I needed to do, and I'm not particularly bright I started off with this channel's Oscillator and Modulator tutorials, maybe you can start with that, feels a lot less intimidating after watching those (pro tip: follow along, don't just watch)

@@carlosmspk Thanks for sharing! A synth is pretty intimidating at first and they're so much to learn with using a DAW and sound design. It's not as hard as people think to get started, if you're willing to put in some time. Sounds like you have a great start! I agree that the Oscillator and Modulator tutorials are great to start with. One of these days I'll put together a "getting started with synths" video, but that's a big topic and challenging to make into short videos. And I definitely agree that you'll get much more out of it if you follow along. Thanks for watching!