Diva vs Pigments?For the past few months, I've been listening to increasingly more classic electronic music (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and I quite like Conrad Schnitzler). The other day I wondered how hard it could be to play this music myself. I have a reasonably well-equipped Mac and (next week) a usable MIDI keyboard, and after some tests with (among others) Surge XT (whose interface I didn't like at all), I found out that in terms of synthesisers, I get on best with Pigments and Diva, although I somehow prefer Diva.I'm asking the question here because I hope there are more experienced musicians around than me: given my setup and musical preferences, what speaks in favour of one software solution over the other? I'm really a layman in this regard - the fact that I like Diva and care less for Pigments is the result of spending very little time on the subject. I'm probably overlooking the long-term implications. ๐(Cross-posted on @synths@midwest.social and Macrumors.)@macos@lemmy.world
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.