If your song needs a synth, you can pull up Spire and mess with the presets or start tweaking from scratch.

It just means that they’re more specialized.īut Spire is one of those plugins you’re going to be able to use across a wide range of projects and genres. There are several plugins on this list that are limited in scope. This is obviously one of the reasons we selected Spire as the “best overall” plugin on this list. Have a listen to some of the presets in the video below. But it continues to hold up even now because of its great sounds. Spire has already had an illustrious history because it has been around a long time. I love the balance of colors as well as the way everything is organized. They all look great to my eyes, and overall, the user interface easily looks like it could be a real hardware synth module. If that wasn’t enough, there are multiple UI themes – Original, Legacy, Light Grey, Navy Grey, and Dark. And honestly, many of them sounds amazing right out of the box! Its feature set includes four multimode polymorphing oscillators, Classic, Noise, FM, AMSync, SawPWM, nine unison voices on each oscillator, the ability to spread unison voices by chords and octaves, as well as supersaw and hypersaw unisons (and others).Īdditionally – two multimode filters with analog and digital filtering, Perfecto, Infecto, Acido, Scorpio, Combo, effects (Shaper/Decimator, PhaserVowel, Chorus/Flanger, Delay, Reverb), modulation (four macros, four envelopes, four LFOs with morphing shapes), 15 Matrix slots with two sources and four targets, two steppers, arpeggiator, and over 800 factory presets with bass sequences and complex arpeggios, leads, pads, plucks, drums, and FX.Īnd thanks to all the presets, you’ve got a starting point for virtually every sound you can think of. Spire is popular, highly rated, and it lives up to the hype. At this point, it’s no secret that there are a ton of amazing options so far as powerful synthesizer VSTs are concerned (even free ones), but we shouldn’t downplay the greatness that is Reveal Sound’s Spire either. Most producers agree – a solid, versatile synth is a trap must-have.

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