10 Reasons Why u-he Diva is the best software synthesizer

Ten reasons why I would recommend u-he Diva for anyone who wants to learn how to program synthesizers.

[AurasSparsas]

Unparalleled sound quality. This VST is just amazing. And yes, those are my favourite VSTs too!

[milanmacik]

one of the best sounding, yet the most intuitive unfriendly at the same time..

[BirdYoumans]

I find nothing to disagree with you about. Spot on. It has become my favorite as well. Hard to believe it exists. Those U-he folks know something! All their stuff is good, even the freebies.

[adamsmith]

I like to use Reason as a vst in Reaper, and stack Diva with Hive, (for the wavetables and more digital contemporary sound), and Byome, Nuxx or Tantra as multi fx in a combinator to make some of the biggest Korg style combis this side of 1999. Wrapping it in a combinator has the added advantage of being able to have endless modulation. Because, for me. the only down side to Diva is the lack of a modulation matrix. Other than that, it's pretty much perfect. For more analog vibes, in addition to Diva, you should also check out Strobe 2 and Cypher 2. These are more raw and pretty much sound like Aphex Twin and all that classic Warp records stuff straight out of the box. Awesome what you can do. This is a golden age for electronic music.

[LocaliLLocano]

Holy crap. I have been buying your patches for a while and little did I know you have a YouTube channel

[neytcev]

Thank you, Plughugger!
Yes, definitely one of the best synths created,
and we rely mostly on the sound design work,
still very important and reliable is what and how
we incorporate, all patches in the music and our
final results, so we think everything is collaboration ...
Bless you all!

[jamescuttsmusicjcm]

I agree with everything in this video. Diva is amazing. While it would be nice to have a distortion effect, who doesn't have a million fav distortions to throw on it? Haha. Can never get enough of different saturation / distortion algorithms. Sequencer, yeah it would be nice to have. Although obviously we also have external capabilities for that. See this is the thing, while it would be undoubtably more convenient to have those things right there in the plugin itself, I think it is easy to forget how monumentally easy we have it these days compared to how people had to deal with this stuff in the past. It is a fantastic time to be creating music. Less time spent messing around, more time spent actually composing. Coming from times before PC's were ever powerful enough to really run much of anything at all, and when they could it was mostly junk compared to now - back when I was 13 (33 now), all I really need is fantastic sounds to be fair about it, and U-He provides. :D.

[InnerSyncMusic]

Same with Synth1.Very hard to tell a difference between Synth1 and analog one.

[hymnsake]

Thank you! I bought it because it’s compatible with my old computer, didn’t know its still one of the best!

[oathdigi]

Yeah Diva is killer, as are all u-he synths.
Your patches are really great mate... Although I do wish you'd give more love to TAL synths 😁

[MusicwithLisp]

Diva makes me want to buy computers. Lots of computers. ;-)

[PhilAndersonOutside]

Agree, it’s the best sounding, closest to real analog. The other option to consider is the Dark Zebra, which has the Diva filters.

[Udrys]

Diva (as well as other U-he products) also has custom themes from Plugmon.

[G.S.B.]

THE LEGEND is the most convincingly analog sounding synth plugin. I've also found much better basses on some other top VST synths... but Diva is (otherwise) quite awesome.

[jacobastevens]

I'd love to see a video specifically on how you use the cross-mod and ring-mod to create cool sounds!

[bengsynthmusic]

I got this bad boy for half thanks to Native Instruments. I'm all about retro sounds and this does sound analog and creamy. It's my go-to bass plugin. Before it used to be Mini V. Excellent presets especially pads. I wish I can design custom skins for it though.

[ChristianoRodríguez-hk]

I would say that any vst synth that has more functions is good and when it comes to sound quality, you can always use a channel strip to create a warm, deep, clean or dirty sound, depending on what you expect in this case i advise everyone not to limit themselves to just one synthesizer but to be flexible and experiment!

[tri-unetrl]

How did you get your Diva GUI to be cherry red?

Especially on the thumbnail...
i like that shade of red! 😉

[cheekoandtheman]

What about Zebra? I'm learning it at the moment and I am in awe

[nik_elektrik]

Yep. RePro, Diva, Omnisphere. Powerful workhorses.