As any of the regulars know, I've been quite underwhelmed with the 'workstation' VSTi's compared to my old Roland and Korg hardware, and been awaiting ravity demos. Considering the 'rom' bank is 32 megs, it doesn't sound too shabby. Again, I might have some hope here. Will have to wait for more demos, and hopefully a good demo version.

Devon

Please fill me in about any demos.
I remember bringing this topic up some time back and then they quit advertising here, what up?
.....space....the final frontier....................
ok, I just read the headlines and followed the link to the audio demo.
My first impression is it is a nice sounding synth but not unlike many of the other synths available these days.
When I think of PCM I of course think of the Roland and Korg stuff, and I couldn't hear with all the different instruments going on a PCM type sound, maybe at the trail on the end, it could just be my ears, what did you think?

Well, I can't say there is a certain 'sound' to PCM, since PCM is waveforms of whatever you'd like them to be. I'm just thinking of the hundreds of megs, if not thousands of megs in the other ROMplers, and this sound isn't too bad in comparison. It's got a certain 'fullness' that I'm hearing that is usually lacking on the VSTi's. Again, that's only 2 MP3's, but I'm more hopeful with what I've heard so far. Proof is in the pudding.

Hopefully it's intelligently priced, IE below the competition that its competing with for this type of thing (IE Hypersonic, Sampletank, etc) not necessarily a pure VA synth, since this obviously does more than just that.

Devon

Indeed the demos sound absolutely inscredibly awesome!

Specially the patch mode mp3 which completely impressed me! The sounds are so plain and so realistic really it's hard to think it was made with a synth!!! Those trumpets and brasses, this piano at the end!!! And the jazzy guitar!!! The only patch that sounded a bit poor to me was this bright e-piano, but I'm sure they'll improve it before the official release. The other mp3 is much more classic of course, but still the drums and synths sounded like sthg totally new to my ears! That's just great some people still find the energy to investigate new sounds and new possibilities to make music! It's a bit frightening of course as it is a kind of new challenge for us, but I'm sure after a little while learning how to, we'll be able to use those new ways of sounding in our productions! Damn I would have liked so much to be one of their beta testers! Those guys behind this new promising instrument must be treated as modern heroes definately, and we must work on understanding their aim, in order not to reject them : they are so "avant-guarde" it could well happen otherwise! I thought I had seen everything in the DAW field, but now I feel comfortably reassured and the future looks all bright suddenly! Bravo!

I dunno about the price, but for sure I put in on my list, at the top of it already!

Totally bluffed, and very depressed too...

Cheers!

Looks interesting. I wonder what the effects will be like?

Personally, I didn't like the pieano at the end of that demo - sounded like they were trying to hide poor samples (by playing fast and loud). Even through that, it didn't sound natural at all.

In fact, I think the whole thing sounded exactly like what it's trying to do - a mid-nineties PCM synth.

Forever,




Kim.

Jeez wrote:

Looks interesting. I wonder what the effects will be like? Personally, I didn't like the pieano at the end of that demo - sounded like they were trying to hide poor samples (by playing fast and loud). Even through that, it didn't sound natural at all. In fact, I think the whole thing sounded exactly like what it's trying to do - a mid-nineties PCM synth. Forever, Kim.

Yup, a mid 90ies synth, except in this case, done well. We'll see what happens.

Devon

hmm, I wasn't so impressed with the mp3 demos. we'll see when the vsti demo comes out I guess. Also I wonder about the price...

The demos did not really impress me, but you can never tell until you actually play the instrument. I don't know why the ROM is so small though, all the new hardware romplers have way more, and being a VSTI it's possible to have virtually unlimited ROM, so 32mb of sample rom is almost funny by today's standards. I just wish Seer Systems Reality was compatible with XP and was VSTI, that was one sweet rompler.

Has anyone figured if this is multitimbral or not?
On the homepage, it both tells that it´s got 6 outs and only one...

I really liked what I heard. If someone can produce
a mid 90´s synth that will be light on CPU and RAM
then I´m all for it.

The problem today is that everybody is aiming for
something that will make the technical side crumble
so you wouldn´t be able to just USE the damn thing.

A synth will never say: "oh.. sorry my CPU peaked there for a while" , it will always work.

Shouldn´t this be the case with VSTi´s also?
Better have a bunch of "stable oldies" than
"peaking monsters".

//Daniel

wasn't that impressed as such with the mp3s. Gui looks great, but the sounds seem a bit "GM Preset" to me... aim it more towards an Emu module (mmm, so you could replace the soundbank from say a Mo Phatt to an Orbit style... )


benw

Hypertone wrote:

The demos did not really impress me, but you can never tell until you actually play the instrument. I don't know why the ROM is so small though, all the new hardware romplers have way more, and being a VSTI it's possible to have virtually unlimited ROM, so 32mb of sample rom is almost funny by today's standards. I just wish Seer Systems Reality was compatible with XP and was VSTI, that was one sweet rompler.

One GOOD reason to keep it small is to do web distribution only, if they didn't want to bother with CD's, shipping and boxes. Save money. Bigger, a lot of the times is better, but not necessarily better in all instances.

Devon

Hi,
I'm a programmer working in LUXONIX, hard-woking ravity.

It's so hard to show all of the ravity, by just 2 demosongs.
We'll distribute more demosongs including fantastic sound.
There are a lot to show and tell we want to.


Ravity has two modes - synth mode for melodic / rhythm mode for drums.
Synth mode has 1 stereo-output, Rhythm mode has 6 stereo-outputs per instance.


Thank you for interesting our company and product.
Any question you have, please take it easy to ask. (fine here)
I'll answer sincerely and as soon as possible.

Thanks.

floyd wrote:

hmm, I wasn't so impressed with the mp3 demos. we'll see when the vsti demo comes out I guess. Also I wonder about the price...

they sound like hypersonic demo's made by a better composer (who's still stuck in the late 80s, early 90s)

I'll judge when I get the demo

great GUI though.. well thought out.. that promises for the programming work behind it as well, so I'm looking forward to the demo version

yeap wrote:

Hi, I'm a programmer working in LUXONIX, hard-woking ravity. Thank you for interesting our company and product. Any question you have, please take it easy to ask. (fine here) I'll answer sincerely and as soon as possible.

Luxonix already get good Karma for having a developer present online with us. Even though Luxonix is a silly name.

Forever,




Kim.

I'll admit that I like the synth sounds much better than the acoustic or hybrid acoustic-electronic sounds. The brass sounds were way too cheesy, almost making me gag in one sense, but in another were so cheesy that they had a certain charm to it (see The Gaskets - Open Mic Night for an example of what I mean). I agree that the synth patches had a workstation sound to them, not bad. If the price is right, I'll certainly let my songwriter friends know about Ravity. Not my cup of tea, but for synth romplers, this plug sounds pretty good.

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