Software Alternatives & Reviews

Synth1 VS Zebralette

Compare Synth1 VS Zebralette and see what are their differences

Synth1 logo Synth1

Synth1 is a software synthesizer. Functionally it is modeled on the Clavia Nord Lead 2 Red Synth.

Zebralette logo Zebralette

u-he makes creative software synthesizers and effects.
  • Synth1 Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-07-22
  • Zebralette Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-04-17

Synth1 videos

Synth1 favorite 25 000 presets banks review

More videos:

  • Review - free download Friday: Synth1 VA synth VST(win and mac)
  • Demo - Synth1 Tyruke Soundbank Demo

Zebralette videos

FREE Synthesizer from U-he—Zebralette Review

More videos:

  • Demo - AWESOME FREE SYNTH VST | Zebralette by U He Vsti Review & Preset Demo
  • Review - Zebralette Free - Top-level presets

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Synth1 and Zebralette)
Email Marketing
54 54%
46% 46
Work Management
56 56%
44% 44
Audio & Music
56 56%
44% 44
Cloud Computing
53 53%
47% 47

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Synth1 should be more popular than Zebralette. It has been mentiond 13 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Synth1 mentions (13)

  • Specific plugin question (Ichiro Toda Synth1 on Apple M2 CPU)
    If you haven't used it before but are willing to give it a try on your machine and let me know if it works, I'd really appreciate it. It's free and lightweight, and a nice little synth. It can be downloaded here if anyone's willing to give that a quick try for me https://daichilab.sakura.ne.jp/softsynth/index.html. Source: 9 months ago
  • I can't find a particular sound I am looking for
    Have you tried the free VST called Synth1? you'll probably find these sounds in there, or something that sounds close to this- because the sounds above are pretty straightforward - you can get Synth1 from here - https://daichilab.sakura.ne.jp/softsynth/index.html. Source: 11 months ago
  • Any good free vaporwave/synthwave plugins, vst’s, vital presets I should know about?
    Synth1 is the OG free VA synth and can make some great Synthwave tones: https://daichilab.sakura.ne.jp/softsynth/index.html. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Jazz/funk softsynth for beginner
    Synth1 (Nord Lead 2 style synth) + Synth1 Librarian + Presets. Source: over 1 year ago
  • What's the closest hardware synthesiser to the Synth1 VST?
    Just to be clear SynthV1 and Sythn1 are not the same thing :>. Source: over 1 year ago
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Zebralette mentions (6)

  • Ableton synths vs 3rd party (with a twist)
    My U-HE synths.. For a long time have I wondered what the big 'fuss' was all about, I've read & seen so many people talking highly about these. And then NI had a nice Holiday season sale. So now I too have Diva, Hive (and a bit more) then also grabbed Bazille shortly after. Yah, here's the next person sharing his admiration for U-HE :-). Source: 9 months ago
  • Arturia's V-Collection vs Native Instrument's Kontakt
    If you need sampled sounds of acoustic instruments Kontakt is the industry standard. Particularly to create soundtracks the likes of Berlin strings, Cinestrings, Cineperc, etc etc all run in Kontakt. V-Collection shines in modelling synth hardware. The advantage is that you can modify the parameters live and they are not (although they may be sometimes) effects applied directly onto sampled sounds. This collection... Source: over 1 year ago
  • My friend just said "Linux is not good for multimedia"
    This is true. I use Bitwig Studio which is native for Linux and has a bunch of great stuff built in. A couple of companies I've found that have great native Linux VST plugins are Audio Assault, these are also a very reasonable price, and u-he. Not to mention you can use SFZ instruments with Carla from KX Studio. But I've found that I prefer the raw samples and using Bitwig's own multisample file format. Linux... Source: over 2 years ago
  • DAW recommendations for film scoring
    The U-he https://u-he.com/ guy/owner Urs Heckmann is basically Han's personal engineer who collaborated with him for years. He designed the Dark Zebra for the Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises for example. Source: over 2 years ago
  • 800 rand
    Also, most of the big VST development companies release at least one product, or a entry version of their paid-for products, for free, most of the time you just need to sign up for an account with your email address. Some examples I use: Https://u-he.com/ Https://labs.spitfireaudio.com/. Source: over 2 years ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Synth1 and Zebralette, you can also consider the following products

Surge XT - Open-source subtractive-hybrid synthesizer formerly sold commercially as Vember Audio Surge.

Vital - Vital is a spectral warping wavetable synthesizer with drag'n'drop modulation workflow and animated preview of the synth's inner workings where needed. Comes with many modulation sources (including audio-rate), MPE support and FX chain.

ZynAddSubFX - ZynAddSubFX is an open source software synthesizer for Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

Dexed - Dexed is a multi-platform, multi-format plugin synth that is closely modeled on the Yamaha DX7.

Qsynth - Qsynth is a simple Qt4 application wrapper for the ...

Serum - VST for FL Studio, Ableton Live, and many other VST supported DAWs. Heavily utilized in EDM.