Which makes sense. They may have changed minor things but, AFAIK, there have been none of the type of changes that would elevate the sound quality in a significant way. I don't match presets to hear this I just give the filters a bit of torture to see how they cope. So, my testing procedure wouldn't reveal minor differences because, well, I'm not a purist and I don't give a shit about those differences.hellomrbike wrote:Really? That's interesting. Which ones sounded the most different?Franvu wrote:I have VCollection 4.1 and Analog Lab 1, 2 and 3. I was testing for a long time the same presets on AL1 and AL2 versions and they sounded different. I don't know if better of worse. My favourite preset of AL1 sounds too different and traumatized me.hellomrbike wrote:Yeah, I can confirm going back and forth between the versions in V3/V4 and V5 that the sound is still the same. One can try some of the presets common to each version to validate this, for example (the presets designed by Jean-Michel Blanchet tend to be carried over between versions, I notice).ghettosynth wrote:I don't think that they've updated the Moog Modular since V3/V4 in terms of the filter models, but I could be wrong.braj wrote:So, the current incarnation of the Moog Modular, is it decent? How do the filters sound?
In fact, I found that pretty much all of the pre-V5 synths (CS-80, ARP, Modular, Prophet, Jupiter, SEM) have retained the same relative sound as before, with the exception of the Mini V, which I believe got a new filter model. From the patch notes, it seems they haven't modified the code bases of any of these synths, aside from squashing bugs and updating the GUIs.
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For context, I have V Collection 3 mixed with a few updated versions (mostly for GUI usability purposes, like the Modular), and one of the things I did was to compare some common presets back and forth to see exactly how the sounds changed. Generally speaking, I found that any differences could be chalked up to elements like filter cutoff, envelope / LFO emphasis, etc. that could be tuned away, rather than differences in the harmonic content that would come from a change in oscillator or filter modelling, for example.
Generally, however, it's a pretty strong indicator that things haven't been brought up to date if the CPU consumption remains the same and I suspect that may be a reason that things haven't been upgraded. Point blank, you can clearly see from the newer synths that it's not that they don't know how to make better sounding synths, I think that they're just afraid to piss off people still running their plugins on a pocket calculator.