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By Feng
On 9th July 2007 Version: 1.6.3 Read all reviews by Feng
2 of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Stability | Blue is an extremely versatile beast. It is able to produce an enormous sonic palette, and it's comfortable with all kind of sounds. Its main strength, in my opinion, is the extreme flexibility, due to infinite modulation possibilities, very flexible routing, the number of oscillators (six) and the waveforms to choose from (hundreds). USER INTERFACE: Clear, logical, one can spend a lot of time programming without having eye stress.
SOUND: As I said, Blue can cover any sonic world with professional result.
FEATURES: That's where this synth really stands out. It has six oscillators that can be configured in a lot of ways. They can modulate each other with FM or sync(with various configurations possible), their output can be mixed as a normal analogue synth and any in between configuration is possible.There's also the possibility of waveshaping on any oscillator. Then the real strength is the modulation matrix, where you can almost freely set the modulator and the modulated parameter. There are step sequencers, multi point envelope, many lfos. Two filters are included. You can choose freely the routing. For example you can set two oscillators on filter A and other four on filter b. These filters are really responsive and sound good. An extensive effects section, with really good FX completes the picture. A fully customizable arpeggiator is included.
DOCUMENTATION: Although the synth interface is really clear, its enormous possibilities makes you want to have a look at the documentation which is clear and well written.
PRESETS: THey are from Rob Papen. Wonderful!
CUSTOMER SUPPORT: Incredible, Rob and Jon are making a perfect work. Any request is answered really soon.I had all my questions answered tipically within a few hours from posting them .
VALUE FOR MONEY: For 200 $ you have a powerful, wonderful synth. So again I have to give it the maximum.
STABILITY: Never had problems.
One more thing I want to underline is that BLUE has been considered a CPU hog. Obviously it depends on the complexity of the patch, but I find it in line with most of the modern beasts. WIth my athlon FX 4800 most of the patches take around 10% CPU. So it's not light on CPU, but it's definitely not a CPU HOG! What's more, you can reduce CPU by reducing oversampling! |
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By Xiritam
On 7th July 2007 Version: 1.6.3 Read all reviews by Xiritam
3 of 5 people found this review helpful.
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Stability | Kind of surprised that nobody reviewed this synth. BLUE is a very very nice synth, it got nice filters, Sound is clear and clean and it became one of my go to synth if i want lush pads, warm squelchy basses and phat leads ( it really got a lot of good sounding pads basses and leads). Its well worth the price, just like any other synths from Rob Papen and i recommend that you get this one. One other thing i love about this synth is its interface. Blue and White is a very good combination, makes you feel comfortable when you look at it. About the sound engine, it got 6 OSC with tons of waveforms. Filters are very nice sounding, having 13 types of filtering including VOX (love it),from 6 to 24db lowpass highpass bandpass notch, ring and comb. This synth has a lot more features like the Step seq, Arp, FXs, Multi-Envelopes, fm routing, You just cant go wrong with this synth.
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User interface - Very cool and clean interface, everything is organized, very userfriendly.Love the colors.
Sound - Breath taking Excellent professional Sound.
Features - A lot features. See above.
Documentation - it has manual anyways you might not need it. This synth is very easy to use.
Presets - So many good sound presets. It got a lot of banks with tons of presets. Customer Support - i dont know never had problems with it so i never had the need to ask for their help :p
Value for Money - Very worth it.
Stability - It never crashed my pc and it is very cpu Friendly. A bass presets takes about 2 % cpu load and pads 8 % ( using an amd athlon 3200+ single core cpu ) |
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