How does Viking-1 compare to Viking-2?

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TritoneAddiction
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22 Mar 2020

I'm currently trialing Viking-1 and quite like it. It has its own character. I'm considering a purchase now that it goes for €25.00. Love the warm growly bass sounds it can make.
I've trialed V-2 a long time ago so I can't compare the two side by side. I do own the Legend already and remember at the time that I preferred to work with Legend. But I wish I could trial V-2 again to see how it compares to V-1.

I know there are lots of V-2 fans out there. Do V-1 and V-2 sound different from each other, have different character? Or is V-2 basically the same synth only with more features?

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Can't really answer your questions but you I'd get VK-2 as it's great and download Viking-1 VST for free on the Blamsoft site. There you go :)
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Can't really answer your questions but you I'd get VK-2 as it's great and download Viking-1 VST for free on the Blamsoft site. There you go :)
So you're telling me I should become a VST user? NOOOO!!! Not the annoying floating windows. :lol: I'm not ready for that. I'd rather pay the extra €25.00.

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TritoneAddiction wrote:
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MrFigg wrote:
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Can't really answer your questions but you I'd get VK-2 as it's great and download Viking-1 VST for free on the Blamsoft site. There you go :)
So you're telling me I should become a VST user? NOOOO!!! Not the annoying floating windows. :lol: I'm not ready for that. I'd rather pay the extra €25.00.
Arsch!!! The floating windows are only there while the VST is open and then they go away. Embrace the future. The truth will set you free.
Alternatively just get VK-2...or both...but I'd go for VK-2.
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MrFigg wrote:
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TritoneAddiction wrote:
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So you're telling me I should become a VST user? NOOOO!!! Not the annoying floating windows. :lol: I'm not ready for that. I'd rather pay the extra €25.00.
Arsch!!! The floating windows are only there while the VST is open and then they go away. Embrace the future. The truth will set you free.
Alternatively just get VK-2...or both...but I'd go for VK-2.
Yeah I'm sure I'll take that step sooner or later. :D
Thanks for your opinion.

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You've watched this already but in case.
Someone posted a sale on uhe synths a while ago , think it was the Hurricane chap and i took a chance on diva and its only recently i got around to using it. Good lord. Dont get me wrong , the legend and viking synths are great but this thing has everything they have and twice more! The filters are replicas of the filters found on moog , Jupitor, juno , ms20 and a digital jp-8000 one and you mix and match them.

It's only one of 2 vst synths i own (fabfilter twin) , it can be harsh or beatuifull but you just don't get the aliasing of the hardware. The other analogue synth re models in reason cant replicate the bite of the ms-20 filter for eg ..but they have their own charm.
Diva at cost price is too expensive ..its almost £200 but in a sale its a no-brainer. Its just the filters and the filter mods i guess.

Anyway that just me. I love some of the pad sounds (combies) in vk-2 ,but because the poly has to be reduced so much in order to get em to not kill your computer ...some of the 'umph ' goes in the process.

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22 Mar 2020

I have both but I still use 1 a lot! It's just a different instrument. Probably a bit simpler to use. And some of the presets are really nice - I love the Synthwave by eXode patches.

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You've watched this already but in case.
Someone posted a sale on uhe synths a while ago , think it was the Hurricane chap and i took a chance on diva and its only recently i got around to using it. Good lord. Dont get me wrong , the legend and viking synths are great but this thing has everything they have and twice more! The filters are replicas of the filters found on moog , Jupitor, juno , ms20 and a digital jp-8000 one and you mix and match them.

It's only one of 2 vst synths i own (fabfilter twin) , it can be harsh or beatuifull but you just don't get the aliasing of the hardware. The other analogue synth re models in reason cant replicate the bite of the ms-20 filter for eg ..but they have their own charm.
Diva at cost price is too expensive ..its almost £200 but in a sale its a no-brainer. Its just the filters and the filter mods i guess.

Anyway that just me. I love some of the pad sounds (combies) in vk-2 ,but because the poly has to be reduced so much in order to get em to not kill your computer ...some of the 'umph ' goes in the process.
I've heard a lot of good things about Diva. I'm sure I'll check it out at some point once I've left my little Reason bubble that I'm in now. :) For now I'll stick with REs.
Tbh I'm not really knowledgeable or even overly interested in old synths. It's just that when I've trialed a lot of synths some of the ones I've liked has been emulation based synths.

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I have both but I still use 1 a lot! It's just a different instrument. Probably a bit simpler to use. And some of the presets are really nice - I love the Synthwave by eXode patches.
Nice to know they sound different. That's one of the things I was wondering about. Like I said it was a long time ago, but from what I can remember from my trial, Vk-2 didn't have the same character. The fact that Vk-1 is simpler to use is a plus for me. If I do buy V-2 it's strictly gonna be a preset machine. I'm sure the tweakability and endless options means fun times for a lot of people, not so much for me. I only tweak the smaller not so overwhelming synths.

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22 Mar 2020

I have both. Vk-2 has 6 voice polyphony. It also has built-in effects. They're both both great. Depends on budget and the points mentioned above, as far as I can figure.

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Thanks for all the replies guys.
I think I've made up my mind. I'm gonna get the Vk-1 for now. I played around with it some more just now and found myself tweaking the thing and really enjoying myself. There are only a handful of synths that I like making patches with and this seems to be one of them.
Also from what I understand from some of the comments here is that the two synths are different beasts anyway. That was something I wondered about. So if I get Vk-2 later on I won't feel like I've just upgraded, meaning wasted my money on the "first version" first.

If a moderator sees this feel free to close the thread. Or if people want to continue talking about the topic, that's fine too of course. But my desicion is made. Vk-1 it is.

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22 Mar 2020

Vk1 is pretty underrated imo, and is a really fun synth to tweak out with. Based of the Moog Voyager I believe. Vk2 is inspired by something else.
I've got both versions and obviously always opt for the re in Reason. But I gotta say the bigger sized vst version really is very pretty.

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