Z3TA+ 2

The first synth I bought when I was 14 or 15 for 50€ on Christmas sale. The user interface is a bit confusing and harder to understand than in Massive, Serum or even Phaseplant in my opinion, but the brilliant presets make up for it.

Synth sounds great.

+ great sound
+ great presets, there are some ambient scifi pads, some drum and bass presets, etc.
+ runs as VST plugin in Ableton 9 just fine

I bought Z3Ta for mac and now it cant install and when I asked support they say it is not for mac and if i search for my software on steam ie. Mac software I get,, yes Z3Ta as one of the software for mac.. So it is a Mac software.. at least when I bought it.

Love the software, but a big 'but':

It seems if you would have bought it from the Cakewalk store you get the macOS binaries, but not on Steam? For this reason I still vote the software down.

very powerful wavesynth with endless possibilities

if you can get it on sale its a steal

i just bought this and install it but it seems this is not a standalone program... I cannot even register it. it keeps popping up a window that say 'IDS_BITMAP_NOT_FOUND_MESSAGE'... am I doing someting wrong? if this is not a standalone they should say it clearly. I cannot recommend it for now. I guess you need Sonic or another studio program first to use this.

One of my favorite VST. Powerful tool, not for the kind hearted thought.

This a real professional synth, sometimes at an insanely low price on Steam.
It is very powerful but relatively easy to use. There are videos on Youtube that can help you.
It is suitable for virtually any kind of music but is well known for bass and use in electronic music.
There is a large and good collection of arpeggio patterns, but they are not directly editable, but you can make your own in midi.
The presets are varied but many of them, especially the basses are more of a showcases (that are good to study) than bread and butter. Thankfully it is easy to roll your own bass sound.

I love this synth. Works within sony acid as a VST plug-in except when i try to edit arp sequences. Capable of producing a wide spectrum of rich sounds. High degree of articulation with modulations and waveshaping. Huge library of arp sequences. Effects include many advanced options. UI keeps me coming back. Get the preset packages to fully appreciate its capability.

With a decent DAW like Sonar or Cubase or Ableton Live, Z3TA+2 is an excellent software synth. Great for EDM and just about any synth use. It isn't as advanced as the high software synth like Massive or Absynth or Reacktor from Native Instruments or as powerful as Zebra. But it is much better than most ofp the sub £100 software synths.

My only real moan is there are not many presets with the base package but enough to show you how to make certain sounds so you can then go mad and make your own.

A great deal when on offer.

8/10

This is the best plugin synth that I own. It's not a toy or a cut down version for casual people who want to "make a cool track". This is a hardcore, complex, fantastic-sounding synth with 6 oscillators and fantastic waveshaping capabilities. You can modulate 16 different waveshaping features in addition to pulse width modulation and other things and there is Frequency and Phase Modulation.

It's not perfect though. I would have liked a way to edit the arpeggios inside the plugin rather than by loading midi files, but it is overall the best synth I own. Add to that the fact that it is 75% off in Steam sales a couple of times a year and you have something which represents stunning value.

UPDATE: Now removed from Steam because Gibson, who bought Cakewalk, killed it off.

I'm a noob so it took me a while to figure out how to get this thing to work! At first I started it on its own and couldn't figure out how to hear the sounds and spent about 30 minutes troubleshooting. Then I learned how to launch it from Music Creator and then finally heard the sounds! It really is a powerful synthesizer and I'm looking forward to all of the funky sounds I can create with it.

Sometimes I geek out jamming on this at low volume when other people are sleeping. Other times I'm blasting the squeebs and the arps. It gets me doing the Ray Charles every time I get started. Best vst instrument ever.

Holy crap, this is on sale for $25?! I paid $100 for it. Seriously, this is an amazing synth if you're into that sort of thing.

I've always been a fan of Cakewalk and Z3TA is an amazing addition to my DAW.
Only problem I have is constant change of Freq while trying to port sounds into other software.
Overall It's totally worth it and an amazing addition to synth arsenal

A must-have if you're into dark electro, EBM, industrial music.

This Synth is awesome! To be honest i don't think the preview video does it much justice. The sounds you can craft on it are amazing, grinding leads, heavy fat basslines, atmospheric pads. The presets included are perfect to get ideas, you can totally get immersed in the tweaking. This VST is pretty much my go to synth these days.

I had previously used the first version of Z3TA until it was wiped off my hard drive, i decided to invest in this version. I was happy to see that all the patches from the first Z3TA are included in Z3TA 2, so any synth presets i had used in tracks could easily be replaced by Z3TA 2.

Currently running smoothly on PC as a VST plug in with Renoise DAW. Really hope Steam does more VST's in the future.

This is a fantastically addictive application. I have song ideas in my head but find myself still messing with the sounds hours later.

There are tons of preset sounds and even a free pack of 8 bit game sounds as well that can be added. Prepare to lose your self in that alone checking out all the sounds.

The interface with Music Creator works great but I just recently upgraded that to Sonar and have yet to test this with that but will update when I do.

I highly recommend this.

A very interesting program for sound design. Lots of options and a really kick ass randomization feature that will 9 timees out of 10 produce something really cool. This is the type of program you can get lost in for hours due to the depth of the options and feature set.

Z3ta+2 is amazing and you should buy it. I first used a version a million years ago and while it was very powerful, the ui was terrible. Now, the UI is gorgeous and so easy to use. The fx sounds amazing and are incredibly easy to use as well. If you need any kind of synth or sound design or electronic music instruments this is a great choice. It's easy to use and learn and there's so much depth to it. It's the best synth in my collection.