Spoiler free timestamps 0:37 - Nexus 0:59 - Omnisphere 1:29 - Tal Uno 1:39 - Sylenth 1 1:59 - Blue II 2:09 - Surge 2:15 - Korg M1 2:34 - M-Tron Pro 2:49 - X-Pand 2 2:57 - Zebra II 3:13 - Hive 3:24 - UVI Falcon 3:39 - Avenger 3:58 - Ample Guitar 4:13 - Ana 2 4:24 - FM8 4:34 - Repro 5 4:50 - Hydra 2 5:04 - Hypersonic 2 5:13 - Nemesis 5:28 - Tyrell N6 5:37 - Zenology 6:07 - Korg Polysix/Monopoly 6:13 - Gladiator 6:24 - Sampletank 6:34 - Korg Triton 6:44 - Massive 7:08 - Morphine 7:18 - Reaktor 6 7:38 Bill Harmonic? Can't quite hear 7:50 - Roland SRXs 8:07 - Sequel 8:16 - Synth 1 8:35 - Korg Wavestation 8:48 - Dune 3 9:13 - Purity 9:24 - Kontakt 9:37 - Serum 10:05 - Diva 10:18 - FL Keys 10:36 - Arcade 10:44 - GMS Ive run out of thime to do the rest

Yo Heres the banks I mentioned in the video: rekonise.com/jmizzy-synth1-preset-stash-0rldr

S Tier : Analog Lab V, Omnisphere, Arcade, Pigments, Kontakt, Serum A Tier : Xpand2!, Purity, LOUNGE LIZARD EP‑4, Flex less is more imo

ALL VSTS ARE GOOD. JUST KNOW HOW TO USE THEM ! . ITS NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU GOT BUT WHAT YOU GOT IN YOU .

If Arturia Pigments isn't in S tier I'm throwing hands

I've owned or still own several of the hardware synths that Analog Lab emulates and in my experience the emulations sounds very convincing, almost indistinguishable. One thing to remember when it comes to vintage synthesizers is no two pieces of hardware sound the same due to different levels of wear and repair. You often get people saying these VSTs don't sound like their hardware synth which is probably true because the VST is mapped off an entirely different instrument than the one they own. As far as I know Arturia spends a lot of time and money restoring or finding low wear units to use which means theirs probably sounds "cleaner" than the average Joe with a beat up Juno.

good list tbh

been loving your content, i’ve gotten a lot of amazing tips from you, definitely one of my fav music youtubers but once i saw that Rodeo vinyl in the corner u became my favourite lol keep up the good work!

I just used synth1 yesterday, such good sounds honestly. Thanks for putting me on months ago man

You should do a video on some great serum expansions 👀 I struggle with finding them for some reason there's just so much out there.

Seeing Zebra2 and fm8 get love is nice zebra 2 is insanely underrated i love the tonal ambient sounds on there when you throw them into 1/2 grossbeat you get some dirty melodies Edit: and fabfilter twin 2 brooo W

Diva, ANA2, Sample Tank 4, Ezkeys, Triton/Triton Extreme, Electrax2, Pigments, Analog Lab 5, Roland SRX Series, Nemesis, Sytrus are all S tier for me. I dont have omnisphere or kontakt cuz of the file size required.

Analog Lab is no joke, easily the most versatile VST with all the synths it includes. Sample maker's dream as well with all the classic vintage sounds. Only thing I really disagree with here is the TAL-UNO, one of the best Juno emulators other than Roland's and the amount of artists these days which use the Juno is crazy.

those lenses def make them beats slap harder. fire editing btw keep cookin

no pigments or phase plant??

I am surprised you haven't upgraded to Nexus 4. The ability to finally really modify presets is there since they partially opened up the engine. Also some nice new effects. Glad to see you give it some love either way. Definitely agree on Omnisphere. Been using it for over a decade and nothing comes close for flexibility, interface, support, and libraries. Pigments 4 is definitely S tier especially for pads. This was a list of synth VSTs though. There are a lot more great VSTs than synths alone. Why even bother with Lounge Lizard when you have Keyscape? Also, for beats you still can't beat Stylus RMX. Give Modalics Beat Scholar a try. Pretty interesting interface. I was using Arcade until I tried East West Hollywood Composer subscription. Way deeper libraries with a much better interface and sounds.

great list, we need this for effect plugins

what’s the best place to find serum banks??

Bro, the M1 preset double-click thing drives me crazy too! Korg's other plugins don't do that

I think you should take another look at Hive 2. The UI could be overwhelming but it’s designed brilliantly. Give it some time and get used to it and you have one of the most versatile synths ever, extremely easy to use at the same time.

I'm not super into VST synths as I'm exploring analog but some of these might need to check some of these out.

No phase plant on here?:(

Absolutely on point as far as noting: Serato Sample, Synth1, FF-Twin and a few others. People HAVE overlooked these. Xpand also sounds a LOT cooler than it looks. but... What about the ODIN II or the U-He Tyrell? Missed those on the list. Love those. I was also confused why Phaseplant, Falcon/UVI Workstation and CUBE are synths that you have yet to experience. These are the only ones that equal and outdo SERUM and OMNISPHERE at their own amazing job. (IMO) Also feel like all what you said abot Serum is also true about Vital, which is free. not to be snippy. Just to help others in products to peep- I feel that XLN's XO deserved to be on there as well. To answer your question about Kontakt: It is extremely appealing and USEFUL to have such deep sampled instruments. NI Drummer Series sounds JUST LIKE THE REAL THING. Some people still want the real thing. and the ability to mix it in the OLD way. to agree with you tho; I AM sick of NI's @#$% & would like to endorse them less... The LIbraries could probably be a LOT smaller.. --but still use Kontakt CONSTANTLY because there are just so many dope free libraries around. The sounds available on Pianobook alone put Kontakt far ahead of Analog Lab, (For me), which is a very small selection of presets per instrument/with no free libraries like Kontakt. (Arturia is a BOSS brand though) To be frank: I believe that a steady diet of: Phaseplant, CUBE or Falcon/UVI Workstation OVER Omnisphere, Nexus & Serum (as sited in the video) Combined w/ Cableguys Shaperbox or Instigator 2 = Instant Grammy in 2024. LOL, but kinda 4 real tho) These tools alone are already WAAAAAAY more power or capability than most FL studio "Producers" can handle. They don't jive well with producers by name only. Who want everything done for them. These are pretty shitty tools for making a type beat. In fact the opposite. When you use these tools, YOU KNOW that you will not get a copyright infringement. You also know that you built that all yourself. You didn't need sausage fattener, you drew your own sausage fattener and THAT is the moral to this story. Not all of us want to sound like Skrillex or the weekend. Serum & Diva make you sound like them incidentally. (LMAO) This is not a hate rant. See for yourself! Feed a basic sine wave or square wave melody, or beat you just made;] into Multipass and Snapheap. Then create some chaos or ORDER and use parallel mix knobs to fade the FX way in the back and then Apply somme Macros and SEE if you aren't making the most incredible soundscapes ever. Almost by accident. Most of this can be done in your DAW. but I digress lol moving on... Foundations Nylon Strings/Echo Vinyl Guitar/Kalimba & MODO 60's BASS (ALL free) Over Ample's FUll Guitar. although Ample Guitar sounds great and I use it all the time too. good pick. Ample Bass is also a HIT! ARTURIA's Piano and Electric Keys/Analog emulations are the best of the best. Second only to Maybe OMNISPHERE. but that's only IF: you get the individual instruments that come with controls/OG FX Analog Lab does not cut it. Not enough control or presets in the A Lab. Although it's a GREAT little collection. UVI Falcon/or UVI Workstation totally crushes it. Facts. Spitfire Audio is also KILLING this particular part of the game with their PAID plugins but also the free ones are cool too. The premium ones are out of this world!!! Also forgot to mention how great the AUGMENTED (Strings, Voices, Etc...) By arturia are. Lastly, DO NOT overlook Kilohearts entire ecosystem. Phaseplant-THE BEST! Snapheap-BEST free FX EVER, period. Multipass: Simply the best. I also feel that Logic's Alchemy, New Sequencer/Live-Loops, Free Tempo Recording, Etc... Belong on this list. Logic is the best because it stole all the best aspects of Pro-Tools/Cubase- back in the day. Now it has taken Ableton's Warp, Live Loops, Sequencer and lots of other stuff. Looking forward till they take a bunch of ideas from Bitwig, Universal Audio, Slate and maybe even Studio One soon. I know this started as a best VST but I really find myself relying on VST a lot less with all these powerful new features in Logic. For those truly interested in the best of the best: Get Logic and/or a KIlohearts subscription ($10/mnth for everything!) or maybe even Slate/UVI Workstation. They don't pay me to say so. I just wish they did. The FALCON and Phaseplant are not cheap. However they are at the very tippity top of my list. I hope that this opinion helps steer someone toward generating the style of sounds that they are seeking for. Thanks!

Electrax morphine and flex are my favorite vsts I own I believe you hit it right on target with electrax in the ranking although flex and morphine is probably put in b tier but it’s all in how you use them I learned to produce with morphine and flex was a plug-in I didn’t even know existed until later on flex has some great strings and their darkstar feedback electric guitar is killer for a free distorted guitar but needs eq and whatnot I don’t own many plugins but out of the few I have those are pretty much all I use out of what I have when it comes to sounds instruments and synths but I do mess with a lot of fx and weird little sounds out of kits such as things labeled fx ambiance and sirens the beats I make with those tend to give a very unsettling dark vibe though so it’s hard for me to put vocals over them all in all I’d mostly agree with your list as I do not have many of the plugins on the list

Your tips have helped me sell wayyy more beats cant thank you enough brotha🤟🏾💯

Could you point us to some of those serum banks? Everytime i open the VST i instantly get triggered because nothing sounds good to me idk why. Same with Analog Lab tbh

3:30 (Ik u dont have the experience) but Falcon is Definitely S tier simply because of the fact that Bohemian Violin exists, look it up. It's BY FAR the best Digital Violin you can use and COMPLETELY destroys any kontakt bank I have ever used out of like 15-20 different banks and Falcon is currently being used more and more, especially thanks to macshooter, one of the sample gods and goats and it seems that cubeatz also secretly uses falcon (as well as philarmonik 2)

awesome video. how do you feel about sublab? would you recommend it?

This guy have a best concept i sweaaaar !! Love from france bro

good list but I would rank zenology between B or A tier

Gone six years without Omnisphere, never needed it I do use these plugins: Sylenth1 (main synth) Nexus Serum Massive Kontakt KICK 2 (when I want to use custom kicks) However, I am not a rap beat producer, I am an EDM producer

Thanks for making your version of this list and continuing to be you! 👍

THIS GUY DOES HIS NUMBERS! Very good work my boy 💯

LMAOOO "loading expansions is aids" holy shit haha i had to laugh cause that's exactly how I would talk and describe something that is cancer / annoying to do

Great video gang

I think you really need to reconsider Reaktor 6. I have a video called cubes on my channel. I took a snare and turned it into a tonal spectral sympony comboned with a harmonic pitch altering vst.

purity, serum, and nexus 3 are my fav ones tbh

1:51 sylenth1 sound is just better than serum. It's like the difference between vital and serum but less difference in quality. But for beats serum is better.

Need the plugin list!!

Yeah, if you're looking fore something to load and tweak presets on you're gonna have a real hard time with Reaktor. Reaktor is foremost a coding environment for building your own synths, so you gotta approach it more like Max For Live.

bro in his nav era

That beat at the end was fire

Brilliant! Love ths video. But I do have too mention that metro boomin has said he started using flex and he likes it. Maybe you can do a video on FLEX for us. Also can you do a video on serum for trap/hip hop? It’s hard for me to find good banks for it. Cheers!

Good list 👍

Sylenth1 B tier hurt me, but i understand your point

Good list

serato sample is the closest you can get to an MPC workflow in FL studio

At this point i just use Vital, X!Pand, Kontakt and the Ableton stuff, I have a fair amount of FX plugins i use, most synths can do the same stuff so i don't see a huge point in having 7 wavetable synths in they all sound similar, except the Waldorf ones

Purity is lowkey the best vst of all time and it's free

Zenology the ultimate CPU crasher. I've used 4 omnispheres and worked well,but one preset change in Zenology could crash tf out of my laptop

based on the amount of vst’s you have installed I gotta ask/know what cpu you have and how many storage drives you have in your pc n what sizes?…..or do you keep all your banks on externals?

next need to be sum effects

Xpand in A tier is generous man.

the list is ok. i'm surprised you've put synth1 so high considering that you describe your workflow as depending on presets a lot. that synth imo shines more when you come up with stuff from init because it's just easy to use in general. about synplant: idk if i'd say the moments where i wanna randomize parameters are always ones where idk what to do, but that synth in particular really doesn't make it very easy to tweak the sound. however i love about it how easy it is to dial in keytracked polyphonic detuning. that's something a lot of synths are sleeping on

Could you do a 'best to worst' drum machine / sample library / instrument list?

Uvi falcon can create all omnisphere sounds and more a more powerful version of omnisphere imo

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My opinion on Plugins that I used: - Sylenth1 -> To expensive for such a basic synth but sounds good C - Surge -> Cool features but I hate the UI -> for free it has to be B - Ana2 really great synth for that price only the workflow is a bit to slow -> A - FM8 solid FM synth great workflow -> A - Tyrell -> very slow envelopes -> C - OG Massive -> Cool for basses but the Global Unison isntead of per oscillator unison makes it B - Reaktor -> Worth it for Blocks alone. But yeah in terms of usability there are a few things that could be improved -> A - Synth1 to basic -> C - Kontakt -> Indeed overrated but has some useful samples for realistic instruments -> B - Serum -> Would be S 5 years ago. Now I just have to move it to A because it's quite overpriced by todays standards - Absynth -> Indeed slow to use -> C Bonus tipp for Native instruments plugins: If you only want presets then use Komplete Kontrol for Browsing. Makes things much easier.

Strange to hear "Omnisphere has the best pads" I'm really not amazed by them.

the Brace Belden of producer KZfaq

serum quite literally deserves its own tier above S

I get why your voice sounds harsh, you probably mixed this vid on audio technicas and those have insane hi boost

mr r2r ceo, can u help me with cracking east west play 6, i cant do it and im literally so mad cause that missing parts problem has been bothering me for such a long time i dont even try now more, but aybe youre the one who can help me wit dat shit

While I agree with alot on your list. Your whole premise for this video is "if it has good presets it's a good synth" Almost every synth you talked about here can do the same thing *kind of* obviously some have better features than others, some are easier to navigate than others. For anyone just starting out or wanting to get clear about what synth to pick, get omnisphere and that's all you will ever need. If your computer isn't top tier then get serum. If your computer down right sucks then stick with your stock synths. Infact stock synths should be your first choice anyway.

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now i had to smile when i saw synth1

Nice sunglasses bro

Big dawg status

ok nexus is WAY too high. it's b tier. uvi is s tier. monark (not on your list) is a tier. great for rap, soul and r&b. sampletank is a pain in the ass but i would put it in c tier. also modo bass from ikmultimedia (not on your list) is b tier. solid bass vst. massive is a little low imo. i think it's great for rtj type beats. beats that are heavy synthy sounds, massive is it. reactor is great IF you have a native instrument keyboard. kontakt is NOT overrated if you also consider it as a platform for others to create sounds and instruments. arcade is NOT a tier. mid tier b at best. serato sample is absolutely s tier. i don't understand why none of the native samplers in these programs don't just copy it. lounge lizard is c tier. it's okay. they also have a guitar vst that is also c tier. spitfire audio is s tier but most ppl don't have it cause it's geared towards movie and tv composers BUT it's s tier without question. east west (not on your list) is a tier. they have a set of vocal vst's i prefer over arcade. their woodwind and brass stuff is great too. pigment (not on your list) is s tier as well. not better than serum but that's where it's heading imo. heat up (not on your list) is really solid. b tier imo. ok that's all i got. good video. EDIT: soundiron (not on your list) is A tier. great selection of interesting sounds that one can use to make their shit a little different. also heavyocity is another a tier vst. mostly geared towards those working in tv and movies but if you're making beats with heavy strings, i think it's a must have. sonokinetic makes some great sound collection with a wide range of applications. b tier (not on your list).

Where is Pigments and why is it not above Serum?

"No one's got more VSTs installed than me" *CACKLES MANIACALLY IN HOARDER* 66,855 Files, 3,370 Folders in my 32-bit plugins folder alone🙂😶😶‍🌫

What about Cyclops vst???

You forgot the other 349,000 others 🤓

Where do i get the good serum Banks you talked about

Hey I’d really appreciate a Xavier wulf, Valee, idontknowJeffery, Or Lord Fubu tutorial

Never used fl keys but based off all the hits that have been made on it I think it should honorable S tier

Spectra Sonics will always be S tier. It's actually cheap when you consider how much you can do with their VST's

Reaktor is an S-tier if you own Maschine MK3 - it solves almost any browsing and editing issue

where's harmor for the S+ tier

Do a tier list on free VSTs

Absynth 5 should be S tier with my sound mutation library trust me!!!

You need to look what Hans Zimmer do with Zebra, its more but more powerful than Omnisphere ! 1st Place : Kontakt /Roland Cloud (all stuffs) then Analog Lab ! Nexus 3 and electra x don't deserve this place !

how can you rate a vst only based on presets lol....

Anyone know the best place to get Electra x and omnisphere banks ?

Also, sponsored by chick-fil-a

No Vital? No Phase Plant? Damn!

what are these other serum banks?

I can hardly get your table list with the synths. It's just generally you filling your screen's valuable real estate, whether it's just you alone in your surrounds, zooming in and out no less for added annoyance, or you within some rectangle taking over too much of your screen real estate. It's unoriginal-- a cliche, a cookie-cut-- that we see over and over again across YT, along with the adjective, 'awesome', with what looks more like the nurturing of a kind of narcissistic cult of personality where the actual subject seems like more of an afterthought or excuse for more you. So my suggestion for better 'rankings', speaking of which, would be to increase the size of what you are talking about (we can still hear your voice, we don't really need to see you in your studio and then you in some corner of the screen do we?) have it fill the screen as much as possible, maybe minus the desktop wallpaper or whatever, and decrease our exposure to you. Again, your narration and the subject is mostly what counts in this kind of review.

Man really put Nexus in S.

Tone2 Firebird

I dont use SynthMaster ofton but when I do its a Wrestlemania main event.

Serum/Vital/Sytrus where y'all at??

Dude stole the FaZe-Logo :.D

U did omnisphere dirty 😂

synth1 is really nice

No scorch on ya list?

Sakura is the most underrated fl plugin

2:22 install jbridge

The LABS samples don’t start on time: oh you sweet summer child, just wait until you get into the world of orchestral sampling and predelay spreadsheets lol… it’s maddening

Wym zenology is goated