They are completely different synths, aimed at completely different goals, and they're both great.

If you click with Diva, stick with it. Master it, and you can play a lot of classic electronic/rock/prog music.

Pigments is more versatile, you can make both classic and modern sounds with it. Although I think Diva is great, and one of the best sounding virtual synths, if I had to pick one, I'd go with Pigments, because Diva is locked to Virtual Analog sounds, while Pigments goes way beyond that.

But really, pick the one you like to mess around with the most, and learn everything you can. Down the road, if you feel you need more, then get more.

I know it isn't but you've got so much stuff it looked like AI on the first glimpse.

Nice collection though!

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You will need to move the monitors.

Bass builds up in corners. Bad enough where the walls meet, but where the walls meet the ceiling as well will be even worse.

Probably too wide apart for a good centre image too.

Layout is important forfor ergonomics but if it sounds like ass you’re defeating the purpose.

No visible wires is easier on the eyes, and this is a wall in my living room. Also, cable management is nice to do when you're autistic. Making everything perfect :)

Most are Behringer clones from old legendary devices. Like the Roland 101, 303, 606, 808, 909, Moog grandmother, and much more.

I have no idea what 90% of that equipment is, but the setup looks sick. Nice work.

Gotta respect any person with a modular setup. Hey, I don't make the rules, I just follow them.

Was in somewhat similar position. The synth I liked most in the past was my Yamaha qy70. It was small & portable and I could use it everywhere. Few years ago started DAW'ing. Don't like being behind a computer.
Enter Teenage Engineering. I do everything with the OPxy and the OP1field. These are the size of half a laptop you can use them everywhere. Just power it on and continue on your project. I hate starting up, being bound to fixed working space, cables, ... You don't need both machines. The field is a 4 track recorder. They wanted to emulate that workflow. Everything you record on a track is as is. It's not parsmetric where you can still make adjustments to what's recorded. It has good synths. The xy is midi based sequencer. The synths are a bit less but I still get the sounds I want. My workflow is OPxy, then record to OP1f. There I add some extra sounds or beats but mainly vocals (also great vocoder).
Considere it the Apple of synths : expensive, very good at what it should do in an esthetic, minimalistic aluminum design.
Plenty of youtube vids out there. Found the ones by Cuckoo insightful. You can listen to some of my tracks here on soundcloud.

Everything that you describe is provided by Synthstrom Deluge. As a bonus, the software of the device is FOSS and there is a community that provides firmware updates with additional features. Have a look at it, if it is not too expensive for your budget. The only device that has similar features (but a more DAW-live experience) is the Akai MPC and Force line of products.

Find an old Kurzweil K2000S or K2500S. Very powerful workstation for its time. Lay down tracks immediately with presets or dive deep into sampling with wildly creative modulation and effects with high degree of mapping and control.

I know bespoke synth. It's very nice, but at least I need some controller. Moreover, I don't like programming for doing music. I'm looking for something faster. Also, I found it a little buggy, with random crashes here and there. I think that for those kind of stuffs it's better staying on reliable software like puredata and derivatives

I have also been looking for a synth/groove box recently. I’ve been doing deep dives in tutorials/reviews on YouTube, sweetwater, and reverb. The price point is all over the place with some sub $300 US machines that have cool features but steep learning curves to the multi $K machines that can do it all. I’m a total noob to sampling and beat making so I’m probably going to go the cheaper route and also snag a used Korg monologue synth. Here’s the few that I’ve been looking into:

Roland P6

Yamaha SeqTrak

Elektron Digitakt II

There’s also the legendary Akai MPC (praise to J Dilla) for chopping samples and beat making.

If you’re into tinkering and into open source software look up Bespoke Synth. It’s digital modular synth that you can use external hardware and link to a DAW

And don’t forget you can always get a midi keyboard and use your DAW of choice.

That looks super fun. Wish I had the money for one.

I studied 12 years, I don't want that someone's else algorithm writes the voicing for me 🤣

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