Is software equal to hardware as far as sound quality is concerned? (poll)
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 440 posts since 22 Feb, 2014
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 440 posts since 22 Feb, 2014
I use Lush 101 and man does it sound so great. I think it is one that is so damn close to hardware. It's just very short compared to the sh 101. I think it's mostly the filter though.
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- KVRAF
- 2746 posts since 13 Feb, 2012 from Amsterdam
Analog hardware or DSP based? Quite a difference IMHO.
Anyway, had a hard deciding between "fish" and "this debate drives me insane". Because I really could not care less.
Anyway, had a hard deciding between "fish" and "this debate drives me insane". Because I really could not care less.
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- KVRist
- 78 posts since 7 May, 2012
My opinion is that are not equal . Many soft synths have 80 percent of presets unusable , comparing with hardware synths who have only 20 or 10 percent . Ten years back , is my vote .
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jacqueslacouth jacqueslacouth https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=48379
- KVRian
- 1149 posts since 18 Nov, 2004
Depends what you look for I guess, but to be perfectly honest I am sitting here surrounded by hardware that hardly ever gets turned on but my current project in Logic has Padshop Pro, Alchemy, Absynth, Arturia Spark and Scuffham Amps open….with my Virus TI as an overpriced controller.
- KVRAF
- 5488 posts since 15 Dec, 2011 from Bucharest, Romania
NO, but I don't really care. I'm too lazy to use hardware and software does a pretty decent job these days.
- u-he
- 28080 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
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- KVRAF
- 7840 posts since 28 Apr, 2013
I see my 'hardware' as nothing more than software contained in its own dedicated computer 'box'. So since CPU resources are still a consideration, the software that people like to call hardware still has that going for it over software run it the same box with the OS/DAW. Sound-wise, they seem pretty much equal, since they are equally software anyway. The real question then becomes, one computer or multiple computers?
So yeah, cichlids...
So yeah, cichlids...
- KVRian
- 1032 posts since 26 Jun, 2008 from Czech Republic
Define "audio quality" you search for... Yes, HW might have a few more non-linearities HW lovers will defend to death, but it all seems to me like desperate trying to justify previous investments in expansive wooden boxes.
Nice to see having Urs watching this discussion, becouse namely his Zebra is one of the synths that surpassed anything possible by "real" HW by miles... In lot of VA's, you can get close to HW sounds, but show me any synth that is not just CPU in a box and can reproduce huge complex Zebra or Absynth or Alchemy sounds. I don't think there is such a thing.
It really depends on what you search for. If it's exact smell of Minimoog, you'll have to get the Minimoog I'm affraid. But if by sound quality you mean how the sound is actually interesting at the end, I'm affraid the real HW is long gone.
Nice to see having Urs watching this discussion, becouse namely his Zebra is one of the synths that surpassed anything possible by "real" HW by miles... In lot of VA's, you can get close to HW sounds, but show me any synth that is not just CPU in a box and can reproduce huge complex Zebra or Absynth or Alchemy sounds. I don't think there is such a thing.
It really depends on what you search for. If it's exact smell of Minimoog, you'll have to get the Minimoog I'm affraid. But if by sound quality you mean how the sound is actually interesting at the end, I'm affraid the real HW is long gone.
Evovled into noctucat...
http://www.noctucat.com/
http://www.noctucat.com/
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- KVRAF
- 8802 posts since 7 Oct, 2005
Urs wrote:I voted no simply because I'm convinced that software has left hardware behind.
I voted 'yes' but Urs's answer is really cool although it is misleading at first with 'I voted no ..'
- KVRAF
- 8412 posts since 2 Aug, 2005 from Guitar Land, USA
I haven't heard any interesting hardware, nor any interesting payware software.
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