KVR Audio

realmarco · Post by **realmarco** » Thu Feb 09, 2017 9:33 am

chk071 wrote:
db3 wrote:Choice comments from Sonic Academy on social media...

Aliasing is completely gone...
Marketing bogus detected. Every VA synth aliases.

Sorry, had to nitpick at least once today. Back to ANA.

is it the Same for Hardware VA like a Nord or a Virus ?

or is it the unavoidable side-effect of plugins (daw selected sampling frequency)

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Thu Feb 09, 2017 9:46 am

realmarco wrote:
chk071 wrote:
db3 wrote:Choice comments from Sonic Academy on social media...

Aliasing is completely gone...
Marketing bogus detected. Every VA synth aliases.

Sorry, had to nitpick at least once today. Back to ANA.
is it the Same for Hardware VA like a Nord or a Virus ?

or is it the unavoidable side-effect of plugins (daw selected sampling frequency)

Don't know about Nords but Virus TI aliases noticeably (actually far more than current plugins).

I think, if your synth doesn't produce any clearly heard aliasing-related artifacts in the commonly playable registers you may call it alias-free. Alisaing in ANA is currenlty a really bad problem.

realmarco · Post by **realmarco** » Fri Feb 10, 2017 1:23 pm

ok I predict the Gui will look Like xfer serum or Waves' Codex

equipped with 3D graph doohickeys

garryknight · Post by **garryknight** » Fri Feb 10, 2017 3:13 pm

I predict that it will cost more than ANA.

db3 · Post by **db3** » Sat Apr 15, 2017 3:40 pm

https://youtu.be/GUAANghKWXs
https://youtu.be/UKjFFtQo1d4
https://youtu.be/KlEc58locN4

egbert101 · Post by **egbert101** » Sat Apr 15, 2017 4:10 pm

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Sat Apr 15, 2017 11:11 pm

meh, new synth news should be "new look for same old sounds" synth from "blah blah"

Architeuthis · Post by **Architeuthis** » Sat Apr 15, 2017 11:50 pm

layzer wrote:meh, new synth news should be "new look for same old sounds" synth from "blah blah"

Could you e-mail me at Soundemote at gmail dot com to get a Chaosfly beta? Almost ready to send it out. I'd like to address your "new look for same old sounds" issue.

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Sat Apr 15, 2017 11:59 pm

realmarco wrote:
chk071 wrote:
db3 wrote:Choice comments from Sonic Academy on social media...Aliasing is completely gone...
Marketing bogus detected. Every VA synth aliases.
Sorry, had to nitpick at least once today. Back to ANA.
is it the Same for Hardware VA like a Nord or a Virus ?
or is it the unavoidable side-effect of plugins (daw selected sampling frequency)

Aliasing is a physical property of converting a continuous (analog) signal into the domain of discrete (digital) signals. When the inputted signal exceeds 1/2 the frequency digital domain parts of the signal "bounce backwards" and create reflections. These reflections are often at intervals that are not harmonic and it is why these reflections sound metallic. This is digital aliasing. Aliasing is part of the physics of digital signal processing. It's like gravity or the constant speed of light. They're just part of our universe.

This means if you put ANYTHING through an analog to digital converter (ADC) you have to account for aliasing. The two most common methods are steep low-pass filters, and sampling more than you need before discarding the upper part (called oversampling).

This means if you take a guitar, record it with a USB interface into a DAW one, or more, components in the chain have to identify and eliminate aliasing.

When plugin developers talk about aliasing and the removal of it, what they are doing is internally applying oversampling or filtering to discard the unwanted harmonics. It's a constant battle between CPU efficiency, plugin latency, and final sound quality.

All instrument and effect plugins alias and all virtual analog hardware synths do too. The mark of a good one is they minimize the amount of audible aliasing for almost all use-cases.

If we remove the marketing from Sonic Academy's comment we can interpret it to mean that the team has worked hard to minimize aliasing for most settings and modulations of their instrument. That's no small feat.

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Sun Apr 16, 2017 12:31 am

I thought ANA was great, and I am looking forward to a new version.

twal · Post by **twal** » Sun Apr 16, 2017 1:17 am

Blow my jockstrap off.

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Tue Apr 18, 2017 3:52 pm

db3 wrote:https://youtu.be/GUAANghKWXs
https://youtu.be/UKjFFtQo1d4
https://youtu.be/KlEc58locN4

This actually sounds pretty good, especially the acid patch. Nice filter action.

Btw, the Phil's comment on their facebook about the release date : "No later than end of may... probably sooner".

garryknight · Post by **garryknight** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 10:49 pm

"Throw money at screen"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnV7o2s2uHA

garryknight · Post by **garryknight** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 6:18 pm

Just seen on Reddit that they're planning a May/June release, "subject to change". No idea how reliable this is.

https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/ ... they_said/

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 6:27 pm

If it sounds like this, then it's all good:

Sonic Academy new synth!