StefanoM
Senior Sound Designer & Composer
To be honest if you need any sort of synth - it would be better to get Serum, Zebra, Massive or whatever and learn some basic sound design. Creating unique sounds will come a long way in your musical career, as for libraries - you have Jaeger which just like LASS is really dry sounding library, specially when you just use 'Close' mics. It goes well with any not dry library... Albion, Metropolis Ark and so on. But keep in mind that you can get amazing results, just with Jaeger and a little bit of mixing tricks and still sound huge as hell.
I would spread my money to fill the holes if I was in your shoes, after that I would go for second libraries.
If I Can say...
Serum Zebra , Massive.. requires a lot of time. Are fantastic tools to create sounds...but in my experience as composer and sound designer for Disney and Fox when the Time is an important factor to creativity...........in many case is very useful to have a " faster" way to have "that" sound, in Your Template. And the Hybrid library is the better solution.
Moreover a library with a very good Hybrid Cinematic Synth often have a wavetable that it was created with a mix of acoustic and synth elements that in Massive and Zebra you don't have, just for example. Zebra is a must to Have... but also a Good Hybrid Cinematic Library, in many case is more useful , inspirational and creative that a normal Synth.
Of Course Zebra, Massive etc, are the best way to create a classic synth sound ...but not are the best way to have a real "hybrid" synth sound, Texture, Hybrid Precussion, etc.
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