I guess it's synth month because U-HE is finishing the new Hive synth
- Banned
- 703 posts since 20 Oct, 2012
No, I don't believe it, that would be incorrect and Urs Heckmann is a gentleman, as far as I can see. So, not possible, since Sylenth1 is not a vintage product, it is still on the market and produced by another software house.
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- KVRian
- 875 posts since 26 May, 2009 from Area 51
It sounds like Zebra
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- KVRian
- 875 posts since 26 May, 2009 from Area 51
If you are referring to me, I was referring to the sneak preview of Hive. It sounds like something Zebra could do.zvenx wrote:He was speaking about sylenth. Read the thread.
rsp
- KVRist
- 228 posts since 30 Aug, 2011 from Melbourne, Vic, Australia
This whole concept is just meh... Generally I have a lot of love for u-he's products, but this I find thoroughly uninteresting. Then again I also feel Sylenth is a cookie-cutter toy for plebs.
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. - FZ
- KVRAF
- 13078 posts since 16 Feb, 2005 from Kingston, Jamaica
GMusic wrote:If you are referring to me, I was referring to the sneak preview of Hive. It sounds like something Zebra could do.zvenx wrote:He was speaking about sylenth. Read the thread.
rsp
no sorry, not you.
mhog (sorry If I got his name wrong) was suggesting that urs was speaking about Diva.
rsp
sound sculptist
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- KVRAF
- 15497 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
Just to be clear, because maybe I wasn't being clear, there is ZERO need in my music for a synth like Sylenth. What I meant when I said that I wasn't interested is that I just don't care about what are generally referred to as "modern VA" synths, unless, perhaps, they're modular. I'll demo it, of course, but I'm very picky about adding a new synth to my arsenal. I certainly don't care in the least about any synth that uses low CPU, if a synth doesn't wake up my CPU cooler, then I find it very unlikely that I will like how it sounds.recursive one wrote:One can also say "we have had lots of analog-modelled substractive synths long before Diva, why would Urs even make it instead of working on the important stuff?".ghettosynth wrote:Yep, but, I hope it does well for Urs so that he's freed up to get back to work on the important stuff.zerocrossing wrote: Oh, sorry. Haven't been following, but if that's the case, consider me uninterested. I got supersaws, ultrasaws out the yazoo. I don't even get out of bed for anything less than a megasaw.
I think Sylenth is so popular not because it does supersaws, but because it sounds good, has wide sonic range despite very simple architecture and uses almost no CPU. There will be allways a need for such synths in most electronic music genres, if Hive is going to be one of them it must become a succesful synth.
I do hope that Urs doesn't try to closely imitate Sylenth though (because I have it running fine on my Win x64). However making a softsynth emulating another softsynth would be a notable postmodernist act on its own.
That's not to say that I don't have a few low CPU synths in my collection, I do, it's just that it's not a selling point for me and those "spots" in my collection are taken. For me to buy a synth today, it has to do something that I can't do now and it has to do it really well. So, any synth with a product goal of bringing down the CPU so it can compete with Sylenth probably won't even get me to lift the covers, let alone get out of bed.
I really do hope that Urs does well with it, but, if I never hear another supersaw again, it will be too soon.
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- KVRAF
- 15497 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
Yep, spot on.Teezdalien wrote:This whole concept is just meh... Generally I have a lot of love for u-he's products, but this I find thoroughly uninteresting. Then again I also feel Sylenth is a cookie-cutter toy for plebs.
- KVRAF
- 5223 posts since 20 Jul, 2010
I'd also prefer a sequencer to a trancegate. The latter is easy to do either with an LFO (especially if it's a graphic LFO) or an effect. And it's the sort of effect that can come after the synth in the signal chain without losing much in the way of creative opportunities.
Also, you can sort of get that on/off type sound by using short gate times in the sequencer and a quick release.
Also, you can sort of get that on/off type sound by using short gate times in the sequencer and a quick release.
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- Banned
- 703 posts since 20 Oct, 2012
Well, Sylenth1 is still on the market. As far as I know, Lennardigital is going to update it (Sylenth1 64 bit AU and a supposed "Sylenth2" with new functions and a different license protection). Maybe U-he just want to produce their lead/dance/trance oriented synth (and Sylenth1 remains a reference model, for high quality and lightness on CPU, together with Vanguard and Tone2 synths).zvenx wrote:He was speaking about sylenth. Read the thread.
rsp
- Banned
- 703 posts since 20 Oct, 2012
I don't think so. Try Vanguard or Camelspace, play some chords and let me know :Sendy wrote:I'd also prefer a sequencer to a trancegate. The latter is easy to do either with an LFO (especially if it's a graphic LFO) or an effect. And it's the sort of effect that can come after the synth in the signal chain without losing much in the way of creative opportunities.
Also, you can sort of get that on/off type sound by using short gate times in the sequencer and a quick release.
- KVRAF
- 5223 posts since 20 Jul, 2010
Yeah, the gate/arp combo on Vanguard is really useful and great fun. But if I had to choose between sequencer and gater, I know what I'd choose.
http://sendy.bandcamp.com/releases < My new album at Bandcamp! Now pay what you like!
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- KVRian
- 521 posts since 11 Sep, 2004 from inne Büchs
I am quite curious about the sound.ghettosynth wrote: if a synth doesn't wake up my CPU cooler, then I find it very unlikely that I will like how it sounds.
I for one am still looking for an easy to use supersawy synth that's got some big balls, lots of bite and anger, with snappy envelopes and generally great sound.
All that with reasonable cpu consumption (maybe because no emulation of vintage gear is needed and corners can be cut) and i am in.
I hope Hive is gonna be just that since Sylenth,Spire and Dune2 already were all quite interesting to me already.
Andy is a support ninja.
- KVRAF
- 4014 posts since 29 Jun, 2011 from USA
Dear U-he
You need to put that Analog button from presswork onto this new synth. Trust me, it will go down well with the targeted crowd.
You need to put that Analog button from presswork onto this new synth. Trust me, it will go down well with the targeted crowd.
Aiynzahev-sounds
Sound Designer - Soundsets for Pigments, Repro, Diva, Virus TI, Nord Lead 4, Serum, DUNE2, Spire, and others
Sound Designer - Soundsets for Pigments, Repro, Diva, Virus TI, Nord Lead 4, Serum, DUNE2, Spire, and others