KVR Audio

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Mon May 28, 2012 3:12 am

braj wrote:
pdxindy wrote:
braj wrote:
pdxindy wrote:I quite like the arp in Zebra... It is polyphonic and has good control for expressive sequences... Here is an example of one of my own Zebra arp presets...

http://draigathar.org/sounds/detar.wav
Oh that's nice, I didn't know Zebra's arp was that good.
The Zebra arp is quite nice... polyphonic, step length, note tie, note length (gate)... you can transpose notes and also control the step of each note so that a transposed note is not off key... you can also use portamento on individual notes

Here is a quick example I just made... not so great, but it shows the arp playing chords and portamento on the chords but not the single notes

http://draigathar.org/sounds/Zebra-arp-example.mp3
Yeah I gotta say I prefer the first one you posted

hehehe... It wasn't intended to be musical, just an example... Here is another... just 3 notes held and Zebra doing the chords, individual notes and transposing to 5th and 7th... bit of swing added

http://draigathar.org/sounds/Zebra-arp-example2.mp3

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Mon May 28, 2012 11:51 am

DiscoDSP Corona has a great arp that also outputs midi and can be used as a mod source.
Its just been updated to include Zero Delay Latenct filters which sound very good.

C.Bennett · Post by **C.Bennett** » Mon May 28, 2012 8:56 pm

Thanks for all the replies. I'm going to explore a few synths I have and plan to get Aalto on my next purchasing drive.

Cheers!

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Mon May 28, 2012 10:22 pm

C.Bennett wrote:Thanks for all the replies. I'm going to explore a few synths I have and plan to get Aalto on my next purchasing drive.

Cheers!

Did you find any presets for Aalto? I have the demo but it has no presets and I have found almost no audio demos.

BDeep · Post by **BDeep** » Mon May 28, 2012 10:25 pm

That's weird, I'm sure there were presets when I demoed Aalto. It has a built in preset browser right? If I recall correctly they even showed up in the Logic library (which rarely functions as intended)

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Mon May 28, 2012 10:37 pm

BDeep wrote:That's weird, I'm sure there were presets when I demoed Aalto. It has a built in preset browser right? If I recall correctly they even showed up in the Logic library (which rarely functions as intended)

duh!!

It has no preset browser, but in months of trying the demo, I never unfolded the plug-in directory in Live!! There are a bunch of presets... geez...

Thanks for the nudge

BDeep · Post by **BDeep** » Mon May 28, 2012 10:43 pm

I had to look up an imago of Aalto. It does have a preset browser, right there on the upper part of the GUI (http://madronalabs.com/media/aalto/images/Aalto1.2.png). You're using the latest version?
Anyway, you've found them, doesn't really matter anymore

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Mon May 28, 2012 10:53 pm

BDeep wrote:I had to look up an imago of Aalto. It does have a preset browser, right there on the upper part of the GUI (http://madronalabs.com/media/aalto/images/Aalto1.2.png). You're using the latest version?
Anyway, you've found them, doesn't really matter anymore

Downloading the latest version... I had an old demo with a browser... Thanks!

romemulus · Post by **romemulus** » Mon May 28, 2012 11:02 pm

spectrasonics omnisphere has a nice little workshop for creating and saving arps.

Full Bucket · Post by **Full Bucket** » Tue May 29, 2012 7:42 am

Maybe the Mono/Fury is something for you. Like the old Korg Mono/Poly the arpeggiator can trigger the four VCOs individually when running in "Poly" mode.

BTW: It's free.

Cheers Björn

BASSDRIVE · Post by **BASSDRIVE** » Tue May 29, 2012 7:54 am

I like the one in Synth1 and it's free.

Resonator63 · Post by **Resonator63** » Tue May 29, 2012 8:25 am

Synthmaster 2 has a pretty comprehensive arpeggiator.Quite easy to use as well.

federu · Post by **federu** » Tue May 29, 2012 8:26 am

Even Oatmeal has an arpeggiator/sequencer built in.

BTW: a midi DAW is essentially an arpeggiator/sequencer. More challenging and lot work to use it this way but also more versatile.

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Tue May 29, 2012 9:20 am

FM8 Arpegiattor is really great and complete. Very easy to operate and intuitive to make simple sequences.

Xils Synthix arp is also fine : Each of the two keyboards have its own arpêgiattor, You can specify note order in the advanced page, it has gate and swing controls that you can automate via midi, Chord sequences, but the finest is imho the way it is tied to voices modes and also eventually adding the sequencer : Combining all this will give you results impossible to achieve with any other arp engine, and equally important, in any Daw as well, because .... its all in the synth engine.

A good synth for arpeggiated presets and creating arpeggiated sequences?