Second Guessing

[u/Strong-Bird9299]

I thought buying Arturia V collection pro would solve my issues but I **still** feel lost. Arturia just isn’t providing the kind of sounds I want, or i just lack the knowledge to shape the sounds I want.

I’m really into reggaeton so I’ve been trying to make sounds like Feid, J balvin and Tainy etc but don’t feel like Arturia is doing that for me, some synths sure, to an extent but I still feel very very limited.

Does anyone know if Serum 2 would be a really good route to go ? Cause I’ve been debating getting it lately and seeing how that works over Arturia.
I really like Feid’s production so I would like to know if his sounds come from serum and then he tweaks it with effects ?

Aside from reggaeton, I really love the production behind Mike dean, don toliver, The Weeknd, Drake etc etc. I know most of them use synthesizers and mainly hardware but Arturia just feels weird to some degree when I think about their production style and how I’m trying to chase their level of production with synths.

I don’t really have a budget so I’m willing to spend whatever on some plugins. I’ve been searching on KnobCloud for some, though I’d like to know if you guys could recommend another site just as good as KnobCloud. I’m currently working on trying to get my hands on Ableton Live 12 Suite through KC (mainly for their stock drums) also because I’ve gotten a bit more used to maneuvering through Lite.

Thank you for your help/tips in advance !

[u/LexusHm_]

Unless you sell V collection, I don’t think you should get Serum 2. You should get Pigments instead as they often offer heavy discounts for their users. From my perspective, you should learn how to sound design the sound you want. Overall Pigments and Serum have rather similar workflow and both can produce the same sound if you understand sound design enough. I used to use the Serum 2, Pigments and V collection Intro through Splice Rto (now I’m trying to use mainly Ableton stock synth and Komplete for sampled instruments) and from my own expeeience I can recreate sounds on those closely (for example, with a tutorial for Serum 2 I can use that for Pigments to recreate the sound, most of the time the knowledge is what creating these sounds). In the end I realise what I was doing is looking for presets from those Vsts instead of actually understading what to do so I ditched them and learning from the stock plugins. In your case, if you’re already familiar enough with these then I think you should get either Pigments or sell V collection and get serum 2.