KVR Audio

pekadan · Post by **pekadan** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:38 pm

Pads, keys, leads, what?

doof · Post by **doof** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:43 pm

All 3. It's also good for that wavetable-bass sound. PPGs have a specific sound though, you either love it or hate it.

Notron User · Post by **Notron User** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:48 pm

It also benefits from some processing. Judicious compression can really bring the thing to life.

I like to process it with voxengo's voxformer, but you might just want to strap endorphin on it.

It also doesn't have any sweeteners on it like a delay or reverb. The PPG plug tried to faithfully recreate the original...including a lack of built in effects.

Stupid American Pig · Post by **Stupid American Pig** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:50 pm

Check out MCL's song "New York" there are some PPG riffs in that song...

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:50 pm

makin sounds useful in all kind of situations i wold have said

CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:53 pm

being a synth? just guessing.

Stupid American Pig · Post by **Stupid American Pig** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:56 pm

I would also venture to say that the PPG is good at making PPG sounds...

pekadan · Post by **pekadan** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:59 pm

S_A_P wrote:Check out MCL's song "New York" there are some PPG riffs in that song...

Please excuse my ignorance, who or what is MCL?

mayan · Post by **mayan** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:27 pm

the factory sounds kinda sucked - at least to these ears - but there are some soundbanks from third parties that really made me sit on my hind haunches and take notice - in other words, it is capable of producing some real gems

Lunatique · Post by **Lunatique** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:37 pm

Some synths have unremarkable presets, and the PPG has one of the most boring preset sets ever--but like mayan said, there are third-party presets that shows just how capable it really is. On a side note, I was less than impressed by Kubik's presets recently. I was expecting to hear something as impressive as Waldorf hardware sounds, with all the people telling me it's the only softsynth that can do that type of sound. What I did hear was a lot of weak, thin, or less than composer friendly sounds--seems like a lot of it was made by the knob-tweaking type for other knob-tweaking types instead of musicians.

jens · Post by **jens** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:39 pm

it's digital, it's cold, it's mighty powerful - it's the sound of the 80's in a nutshell!

Stupid American Pig · Post by **Stupid American Pig** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:41 pm

MCL is the Dallas, Tejas group Micro Chip League. They had a minor club hit in the 80s with New York. They used quite a bit of the PPG

phattslagg · Post by **phattslagg** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:41 pm

Lunatique wrote:I was less than impressed by Kubik's presets recently.

Agreed. The default preset 'Reznose' is particularly bad - it should boot up with a real stunner IMO.

jens · Post by **jens** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:43 pm

Lunatique wrote:. On a side note, I was less than impressed by Kubik's presets recently. I was expecting to hear something as impressive as Waldorf hardware sounds, with all the people telling me it's the only softsynth that can do that type of sound. What I did hear was a lot of weak, thin, or less than composer friendly sounds--seems like a lot of it was made by the knob-tweaking type for other knob-tweaking types instead of musicians.

I strongly disagree - I'm not the typical know-tweaker -
and I think Kubik is wonderful

Did you listen to my demo tracks? Do they sound like rather being made by a 'knob tweaking type' than a musician to you?

Synthpopkid · Post by **Synthpopkid** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:55 pm

It's up there with wearing leather shorts for pretending to be in Depeche Mode.

What's the PPG Wave synth good at?