Tone2 filters are always amazing. Best thing about their synths imo. Even if they didn't improve them from ElectraX/gladiator. What I'm interested to hear is the oscillator sound. There is so much talk about filters with new VA synths but that's not all their is of course.

What's been interesting about tone2 synths so far is that they have a nice digital sound (crisp and clean) but with nice analog sounding filters. I wonder what the full on analog attempt will be like. It is also impressive how low cpu their synths are.

The name "Saurus" seems a little cheeky given the existing name Dinosaur Impersonating Virtual Analog".

I don't know. I only know that Gladiator and Electra X's filters sound amazing. I don't care what technology was used to create them but they are genuinely brilliant. They react to how hard you drive them (meaning oscillator volume -> filter) and even seem to be weirdly program dependent (some of them) so that go a bit weird and unstable with certain material. I love it!

Anyhow, the proof is in the pudding so we shall see when Saurus is released.

Cheers!
bManic

Yes, the filters are great with eg. Gladitor if this psychoacoustic stuff is disabled. I expect the filters in this analog "Saurus" (circuit modelled?) synth will be also very great. The first page shows also 4x Unison, Stereo spread and stuff so there are all good ideas implemented from the start.
Will be a interesting new synth and I expect a good sound like U-He Diva but without the big CPU usage.

I'd like to get a smell of Warmverbs vocoding capabilities

Probably not even what you meant, consider this is intentionally a straw-man argument. A sound that's similar to the sound of DIVA would be a surprise to me.

Part of that would be, at least on sounds that emphasize where DIVA is really pretty radically different from prior art in terms of modeling multiple components in the signal path.

Another part that I think may be underestimated about DIVA is just in the details - amazing synths were chosen as source material, u-he has always been great for high standards of musicality, and the strategy of the UI is smartly done, feels much trimmer than a lot of soft synths even of similar complexity.



Absolutely, Tone2 has proven capable of putting out good sounding synths. Irrespective of technical details I've always liked Tone2's filters and appreciate the sonic & musical aesthetics Tone2 goes after. Can't wait to hear Saurus.

but I'm not bashing anyone just waiting for audio demos - that's all.

I'd love to win something from you guys! Never won something like this before

Nice looking synths!

Like the interfaces and the layout seems straightforward enough.

I definitely like that things are laid out logically and clearly, so that one doesn't have to be a "rocket scientists" to learn the functions and parameters.

I'll be keeping an eye on this one for sure!

When is it released ?

If it sounds anywhere near as good as ElectraX, this should be awesome!

+1

Can we assume that your next product will be called "Sini Soog" ?

And seriously now... waiting to hear it

Have to give this one a listen.

I'm more interested to see if sounds different to using ElectraX with teh analog waveforms. Or if it's largely repackaged, streamlined version with only analog modelling. No doubt it will sound good though.

I still want tone2 to add granular sampling to either an existing synth or a new one. ElectraX with granular rather than just straight sampling would be great.

I want filterbank!