KVR Audio

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:07 am

http://www.clavia.com/news/G2mutapress.htm

its evolving

(thanks for the headsup Motion)

elv · Post by **elv** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 12:16 pm

Thanks

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 1:29 pm

Installed and amazed - I know what I'm doing the rest of today

It's particularly good for those really complex patches that even the creator has only managed to make one preset for

I've managed to generate full variation sets for several already - you can explore some cool sonic spaces with this. And its designed the way I've always wanted VSTi patch randomisation to work - you can actually see visually how a patch is going to sound and juggle selected patches around to breed from.

OMU · Post by **OMU** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:09 pm

Cool

Motion · Post by **Motion** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:13 pm

Kudos to Clavia and Palle Dahlstedt...it's just a fantastic addition.I can see why it has taken so long.I'm sure they will continue to refine and add to it further as time goes by in as far as is practicable......the realtime sonic breeding/morphing using the Patch Mutator really shows just how much mileage can be had from complex patches and lets you explore so many possibilities with minimal effort.The surprise element is so much fun.

I hope someday they do release the G2 as a full on software version especially with the dual core chips and ever increasing power.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:56 pm

Anyone with a powerful enough PC and decent soundcard (it has to be run at 96khz) can get a lot of useage out of the free software version - its more than a demo really; you can create and save patches and even with the mono limitation you can create some amazing sounds (many patches sound best in mono anyway such as Glass cathedral). I used the demo for ages before buying the hardware and you can easily record its output even if its not a plugin. Its a really generous freebie.

Motion · Post by **Motion** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:44 pm

aMUSEd wrote:

Anyone with a powerful enough PC and decent soundcard (it has to be run at 96khz) can get a lot of useage out of the free software version - its more than a demo really

Definately.....I sold my Micro Modular with some regret then found the G2 demo not too long after.

Needless to say I was a very happy man again.

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 7:43 pm

I think they've done a great job on these
very useful indeed

paradiddle · Post by **paradiddle** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:34 pm

Yeah man, I used it before and it's quite a cool free stand alone synth. I didn't know it was running at 96khz though. That's why it using so much cpu. Still great though and fun to build synths with it.

aMUSEd wrote:Anyone with a powerful enough PC and decent soundcard (it has to be run at 96khz) can get a lot of useage out of the free software version - its more than a demo really; you can create and save patches and even with the mono limitation you can create some amazing sounds (many patches sound best in mono anyway such as Glass cathedral). I used the demo for ages before buying the hardware and you can easily record its output even if its not a plugin. Its a really generous freebie.

Failed Muso · Post by **Failed Muso** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:53 pm

You know, I never knew they had done a soft synth version demo if this !! This is awesome. Thanks to aMUSEd for this one

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:16 pm

2 synths I can think would benefit enormously from this sort of patch randomisation would be Symptohm Melohman and Reaktor. Melohman uses a similar system of a number of variations per patch (though in Symptohm its 12 not

to make a Metapatch so being able to generate a bunch of variations this way and then choose the best and breed between and visually morph interpolate between them would be brilliant. And although Reaktor does have a good morphing and randomise feature this would enable even more control and creativity plus the digital DNA metaphor makes it very visual.

c'mon Ohmies - please add this to the next Melohman update

carrier down · Post by **carrier down** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:13 am

This sounds extremely cool! Sounds like something that would be right up my alley.. though the g2 modular is an expensive beast, anyone have any experiences with the g2 engine?
Does the software demo of this thing have the mutation feature as well?

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:37 pm

Yes it does - you can even save patches and also load most patches from the user library apart from th=ose that use the few modules not included. Its really 90% functional and a great freebie.

I have the engine and find it perfectly useable with a decent midi controller (mine has better key action than the one that comes with the Korg anyway) and Phatboy 2 for some hands on knob tweaking.

Nord Modular G2 update out (and new version of softsynth)