KVR Audio

stillshaded · Post by **stillshaded** » Sat May 03, 2014 7:51 am

I'm really enjoying this synth.

I almost feel like this synth should be the gold standard for feature set and quality. It's nothing totally over the top, but it covers a whole lot of bases in a modest way if you catch my drift. It does wavetable, FM, and audio rate modulation-- all in a way that is easy to grasp and get results from. At this point in time, why would you make a digital synth and not include these things?

I'm still trying to decide if I'm going to upgrade, money is oh so very tight right now, but I really do respect the work that was done with this synth. It is extremely versatile and at the same time easy to operate. Way to go Richard!

digitalboytn · Post by **digitalboytn** » Sat May 03, 2014 8:25 am

stillshaded wrote:I'm really enjoying this synth.

I'm still trying to decide if I'm going to upgrade, money is oh so very tight right now, but I really do respect the work that was done with this synth. It is extremely versatile and at the same time easy to operate. Way to go Richard!

Go on...Pull the trigger and buy it

This synth sounds wonderful....

It sits right and sounds just right in the mix...

And it's versatile too...

That's exactly what we need...

Practical tools that sound great and don't blow out the CPU while the're doing it...

One of the things I always liked about the original DUNE was how great it sounded WITHOUT any FX ...

Just the sound of the raw synth engine...

Well DUNE 2 sounds even better and if you need onboard FX,these ones are stellar

murnau · Post by **murnau** » Sat May 03, 2014 9:09 am

i tried out the demo: while it's a good sounding VI can some of the sound/synth-experts here tell my (technically) why i have to buy it if i already have: tone2 ElectraX, Blue2 or similar stuff?

ps. also the first thing i do when producing is to turn off internal reverb/delay of any VI and use send fx.

Richard_Synapse · Post by **Richard_Synapse** » Sat May 03, 2014 9:09 am

zvenx wrote:works great now in 64 bit mode....... will try 32 bit mode if I ever stop playing.
have to look where the manual is installed, but who is KS?
I am loving their patches.

and the cpu usage is outstanding..........
fantastic job Richard.
rsp

KS = Kevin Schroeder / DejaVu Sound. He made the demo clips too.

Richard

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Sat May 03, 2014 9:12 am

Bug fixed.. it's now working without crashes (64Bit version, Cubase 7.5.20)

fidox · Post by **fidox** » Sat May 03, 2014 9:13 am

4damind wrote:Not working with Cubase 7.5.20 64Bit (crash with the 64Bit version)

Working fine under Cubase Artist 7.5.20 64bit.
Windows 8.1 64bit

db3 · Post by **db3** » Sat May 03, 2014 9:58 am

mcnoone wrote:Wow!
The EFFECTS are simply amazing now. That reverb is the best onboard reverb I've heard from a synth.

I'm wondering whether Dune 2 effect engines are based on some of Synapse's individual Rack Extension effects. Reverb and Dual Chorus seem very similar. DR-1 is superb in Reason.

kmonkey · Post by **kmonkey** » Sat May 03, 2014 10:10 am

murnau wrote:i tried out the demo: while it's a good sounding VI can some of the sound/synth-experts here tell my (technically) why i have to buy it if i already have: tone2 ElectraX, Blue2 or similar stuff?

If you can't hear a difference (which is a main reason why anyone would choose to buy anything over anything) between these you listed and Dune 2 it would be pretty irrational for you to buy Dune 2. And really no one is telling you that you have to buy anything.

murnau wrote:ps. also the first thing i do when producing is to turn off internal reverb/delay of any VI and use send fx.

That's your way of working i guess. And isn't anything what needed to be done in order to make music, What's your point there exactly? I don't see a reason why should i do that if a synth does sport better (for example) reverb then one which comes with my host. Wouldn't be stupid to use worse reverb effect for synth, if synth alone have better one?

I mean - you do realize that if there where (another example) two same reverb engines, one on the synth and one on the send channel of your mixer, using synth one is exactly the same as using reverb on the send. It's a damn dry/wet control nothing different.

However if you are speaking about placing whole instrument set in kinda same acoustic space (one or two reverb plugins on sends) that's another story but anyway or other Dune 2 reverb is really good sounding and one need to be really deaf to not hear that.

Not using Dune 2 reverb is like a having a sexy hot girl - not banging it.

Blasphemy.

Seriously..

ENV1 · Post by **ENV1** » Sat May 03, 2014 10:10 am

Kriminal wrote:sorry, cant download file, can you upload to another site please?

Not at the moment, no, but the download works fine, just go to the bottom of the page and look for the box that says Download.

Then again it probably doesnt matter anyway. Considering that Richard doesnt even respond im beginning to think i probably shouldnt have said anything. The only reason why i brought it up at all was because of Richards reply in this thread, where he said the following:

Richard_Synapse wrote:Hm this sounds weird indeed, given the simple setup I wonder why noone has brought this up in years. Anyhow, we'll make sure it won't happen in Dune 2 (which uses completely new VA oscillator code anyway, similar to the algorithms used in Antidote). In the current version we may have to live with this shortcoming, however, as bigger changes to the sound engine will almost certainly break some existing projects or patches (and there's many of them now).

Richard

To me this sounded like he is concerned about this issue too, but maybe this has changed. If it has, i consider the subject through, i.e. wont bring it up again.

murnau · Post by **murnau** » Sat May 03, 2014 10:23 am

kmonkey wrote:
murnau wrote:i tried out the demo: while it's a good sounding VI can some of the sound/synth-experts here tell my (technically) why i have to buy it if i already have: tone2 ElectraX, Blue2 or similar stuff?
If you can't hear a difference (which is a main reason why anyone would choose to buy anything over anything) between these you listed and Dune 2 it would be pretty irrational for you to buy Dune 2. And really no one is telling you that you have to buy anything.

really?i think that was the reason why i said technically and toward the question to the synth-experts here.

kmonkey wrote:
murnau wrote:ps. also the first thing i do when producing is to turn off internal reverb/delay of any VI and use send fx.
However if you are speaking about placing whole instrument set in kinda same acoustic space (one or two reverb plugins on sends) that's another story but anyway or other Dune 2 reverb is really good sounding and one need to be really deaf to not hear that.

i think i used the term producing do you think producing mean "placing whole instrument set in kinda same acoustic space"?.. and where i said i use stock reverb of daw btw? i have high class 3rd party plugins like valhalla, lexicon and powercore vss3.

okay, thanx for the post anyway! i appreciate the part with the sexy girl seriously..

carrieres · Post by **carrieres** » Sat May 03, 2014 10:24 am

fluffy_little_something wrote:I wish there were a few more classic patches, and an init patch.

if you click on the patch menu, you can choose to initialize patch

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Sat May 03, 2014 10:25 am

ENV1 wrote:
Kriminal wrote:sorry, cant download file, can you upload to another site please?
Not at the moment, no, but the download works fine, just go to the bottom of the page and look for the box that says Download.

tried that several times, nothing happens. I really would like to hear it...please

Blue-eyed Blonde Ape · Sat May 03, 2014 10:43 am

murnau wrote:i tried out the demo: while it's a good sounding VI can some of the sound/synth-experts here tell my (technically) why i have to buy it if i already have: tone2 ElectraX, Blue2 or similar stuff?

ps. also the first thing i do when producing is to turn off internal reverb/delay of any VI and use send fx.

It beats them when it comes to analog sound, it have great super saw thing going, super-saw thing is better and more flexible than in those two and Spire can go and f))) itself, nothing analog about it, neither even analog filter models sound like analog, just plain plastic fantastic, Korg's ms plugin filter sounds more analog and that's probably more than 10 or 15 years old PLUGIN.
Here's dune's raw demo, no effects, showcasing ms filter and super saw, not a usual sh))y demo drenched in effects, something that a lot would like to hear in synths demos, I believe, though.........whatever haha
It's more analog than those mentioned about cpu I don't know because my is i7 and I program from scratch so it's negligible in my case and I don't do caravans of instances with max voice count going on, so Filters way better, super saw better, very flexible, audio modulation which sounds like one, so it's better too.

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zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Sat May 03, 2014 11:20 am

Richard_Synapse wrote:
zvenx wrote:works great now in 64 bit mode....... will try 32 bit mode if I ever stop playing.
have to look where the manual is installed, but who is KS?
I am loving their patches.

and the cpu usage is outstanding..........
fantastic job Richard.
rsp
KS = Kevin Schroeder / DejaVu Sound. He made the demo clips too.

Richard

thanks,
love his patches.
rsp

mcnoone · Post by **mcnoone** » Sat May 03, 2014 11:25 am

I'm getting audio off in left speaker, on about 10 out of 50 presets. Seems like it's the same presets doing it too.
Even after starting a new project and reloading it.
Anyone else have this issue?

DUNE 2 is out now!!