As hinted at in another thread & in an effort to be a tease I enclose a small snippet of the sound of the new Etiquet 2.. This time I am concentrating on trying to make it an instrument with lots of expression, hopefully this example will show that I am on my way to this end..

http://www.krakli.co.uk/music/etiquet2_1.mp3

(P.S. I know that the opening sound and pad are not especially stringy(!) It is the lead line that I was concentrating on..)

OK .. my audio example obviously left you all totally underwhelmed, ...so I rename the thread to attract the innuendo lovers and see if the graphics will gat you more excited!!??



I think that we can all agree that it is quite a departure from the previous Etiquet...

Sounds great!
And it looks like tits!

Sounds cool. Looks a shocker.

Naughty, naughty...

Sepheritoh wrote:

Looks a shocker.

could you expand on that ..?

That pic you got here looks like it can blow any mind away

Thanks for all those great synths & fx Ian.

Sepheritoh wrote:

Looks a shocker.

Sepheritoh wrote:

That pic you got here looks like it can blow any mind away

Oh thanks for that, I was unsure as Shocker can mean bad where I come from..!

sounds incredibly beautyful

That GUI reminds me of Rainbow Islands. The fourth island to be more precise.
There's much expression in that synthlead. I wonder how many parameters were changing over time. It sounds very good.

Very beautiful demo and instrument. By the way, I like your music ianweb123. As a matter of fact I voted no.1 for your song last month.

Purna wrote:

Very beautiful demo and instrument. By the way, I like your music ianweb123. As a matter of fact I voted no.1 for your song last month.

Thank you very much, my music making, which was once important to me, now takes a bit of a back seat, so that means a lot to me..


I've always been a big fan of the dreamy ballad

or is that the dreary salad!!

Sounds great, really like the demo clip!
I'm a fan of the original etiquet, can't wait to check this one out.
The GUI looks awesome by the way.

that's a really nice, expressive lead

nice knobs, too

Hi Ian

Your new project looks great.

However..whatever happened to addo? I think all you had to do was to make the letters more readable. Its a great little synth ( and I think I did about 30 presets:-)I recently put it up in Tracktion and went thru the sounds again, so glad you started this thread so I could ask you. I think you should release it.

TC

This sounds extremely tasty Ian.....

Amoebe wrote:

I wonder how many parameters were changing over time.

I am wondering the same here, and how midi-controllable is this string wonder

Mark

Wow is all I can say that sound so full of emotion

Mystahr wrote:

This sounds extremely tasty Ian..... Amoebe wrote: I wonder how many parameters were changing over time. I am wondering the same here, and how midi-controllable is this string wonder Mark

I wasn't manually changing any parameters.. I have used velocity control on both Amplitude and filter, but, more importantly, you can also dial it in to the attack , decay & sustain of the Amp envelope. This means the harder I hit the shorter the Attack becomes and the longer the Decay and Sustain is... It means that you can really get some expression in just by the way you play. As I said to somebody else this thing is also a Pad-Monsta.. especially as the filter is anything but conventional, and this means that even with a simple ADSR you can get some evolving sounds..

Try it, I'm sure you won't be disappointed!!

tconrardy wrote:

However..whatever happened to addo? I think all you had to do was to make the letters more readable. Its a great little synth ( and I think I did about 30 presets:-)... I think you should release it. TC

I'm glad that you asked, Tim. Despite the fact that both you and the other patch writers turned out some excellent sounds, which really showed addo off to its best advantage, the basic sound of the plug left me feeling dissapointed. Because it was being 'sold' as an additive type synth I thought that the users would be expecting something a little more 'Airy' sounding and addo leant more towards the drawbar organ sound to me..

However having said that I made that decision whilst I was in an off-mood with the whole vsti thing and so, in light of your comments I will revisit the plug and see if it can be rescued!!

Thanks again for your efforts.. I am ashamed that I asked you to do the work and never took advantage of it..

ATB

Ian

.. and finally for anybody that fancies a 4.5mb download here's something that Tomita (and Debussy!) did a whole lot better, but never using Krakli synths..

A couple of etEquets, a couple of Rticul8s, a Ring , an abacus and a couple of Meta4s



http://www.krakli.co.uk/music/claredelune.mp3

I liked the MP3 - nice lead. I rarely d/l VSTis nowadays, and buy few of them, partly because of the limitations so many seem to have with LFOs - lots of LFO shapes, offsets, mod destinations etc, but no envelope in sight - not a delay or a fade-in anywhere.

So a big thumbs up for having the good taste to put in a delay on the vibrato. I don't like the implementation of using a wheel for introducing vibrato - often it just isn't smooth enough, whereas a good vibrato delay does wonders for me. You are a gent, sir.

I agree about the delayed vibrato, which is why it has been a standard feature on all my most recent plugs..

ianweb123 wrote:

tconrardy wrote: However..whatever happened to addo? I think all you had to do was to make the letters more readable. Its a great little synth ( and I think I did about 30 presets:-)... I think you should release it. TC I'm glad that you asked, Tim. Despite the fact that both you and the other patch writers turned out some excellent sounds, which really showed addo off to its best advantage, the basic sound of the plug left me feeling dissapointed. Because it was being 'sold' as an additive type synth I thought that the users would be expecting something a little more 'Airy' sounding and addo leant more towards the drawbar organ sound to me.. However having said that I made that decision whilst I was in an off-mood with the whole vsti thing and so, in light of your comments I will revisit the plug and see if it can be rescued!! Thanks again for your efforts.. I am ashamed that I asked you to do the work and never took advantage of it.. ATB Ian

The sound is like Additive, but IMHO it sounds more like FM, which is a big plus. You can get some nice FM sounding pad textures as well as very delicate sounds. But you do need an external Reverb/delay to make the sounds come alive ( again IMHO)
I would highly recommend you release it in one way or another!!

WE WANT ADDO..WE WANT ADDO ! WE WANT ADDO !!
...( amounting to the stomping at Helms Deep

TC

Super synth Ian! And a nice BIG gui for blind bats like me! But it seemed really CPU intense for me and me wee lappy? Those patches just beg me to do some big chords, but 'chooooooke!'
At best, I can get duophony out of it.

Do you think there might be a way to bring it's 'hunger' down a bit? The delay is nice, but isn't it a bit of a CPU hog at times? And lord knows each one of us probably has a mitt full of delays from MDA to We-Make-You-Pay, if one of us NEEDS a big delay to be on a patch?

But I definately like the tone of this! It has that Wendy Carlos saturated vocoder feel to me greatly, and just wish I could build up great crescendos with this.

Quite hard for me to guage CPU usage these days as I am running an AMD 2.8+ and this plugs struggles to get above 4% at the beat (worst) of times..

I could strip out the delays but they are not the main CPU usage culprits, this plug does have a number of Oscillators and Filters and they will be what is doing the damage..

Don't forget that this is not designed to replace Etiquet, so if you found that more CPU friendly then use that for your string sounds..

The GUI was designed to be J Dub size friendly.. wait till you see what I have cooked up as the EZ-Poly GUI (further to your comments)..

ATB

Ian

Thanks a bunch Ian. Someone had said once before that delays were pretty intense, but your explanation makes alot of sense as well. I learn something new here everyday.

What I may do with Etiquet2 is multi-sample and loop my fave patches onto my EX5 synth. Sure, it's alot of work - but those tones are just begging for massive polyphony to me!

But thanks again for the bigger GUI's, and am looking foward to seeing how you cook up EZ Poly now!