Hello,
waveform with the mouse, which I've found can make it a little less predictable. But too much of that makes it inharmonic, and even so it still sounds very 80's. I'd like the freedom to work in more sophisticated synthesis.
I don't think its the synthesis fault only. The absence of effects make it flat sounding. So you should try some delays, which are cheap cpu-wise or freeverb~ as reverb. Usually only one instance of freeverb with some fx channels on your instruments so you can control individually how much one instrument is send to reverb. So you can layer the sounds in space like one instrument is totally sent to reverb so its in the background, another one is half send and one is not sent to reverb so it stays in the foreground.
I think all the filter objects have been designed with mathematics in mind rather than sound.
Check out moog~ filter, its amazing, there is your Reactor, which sounds good because Native Instruments made the choice combining several modules into one so it sounds analogish, but with the right combination of modules in PD you can create the same with more freedom. It can be doubted that a Reactor oscillator is just a waveform generator without additional tricks.
Cheers,
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