WHERE UCK is my studio phonik?????? lol

[ethernine]

yo for real where is studio phonik i see it in sweetwater catalog i was gonna order it but i did not see anything on the yall site so where is my DAMN STUDIO PHONIK?

[Squids]

You mean "Where the uck is my Studio onik?" If you are going to leave out phonetic "f" sounds.

It's coming. The whole point of a product like this is the fine qualities of character of the instruments though. If we wanted to we could just throw it out there today we could (I mean, if you wanted Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keys... you could just pick up the Sonik Capsules and Sonik Synth 2 and you'd be all set!). But, this is a meticulous process cherry picking a candidate of every brand, tweaking it so you can do some fancy mixing in a new ST2-based engine (that is more advanced than any current ST2 engine, even the one in Miro). The result will be in many people's eyes totally worth the wait. A work of art in some ways. We want to hit the nail on the head. Now, to that end, there will still be a path for it to keep going to achieve its goals of being the ultimate studio instrument "virtual band" workstation. But, there's a certain standard we are trying to achieve both in the sounds and the module itself so that we think people will go nuts over it.

If it was just about the money we'd have already released it. It is about craftsmanship or at least a balance to be honest. As for Sweetwater's ProGear (apart from the sad fact that they left out mention of SR in almost every SR module like SS2, Miroslav Philharmonik AND Studiophonik which hurts my Squids feelings) the mag does last for at least 6 months at a time (if not the whole year) and SPK will be out in less than 6 months.

[t-willy]

so what's going to be different about studiophonik? i mean generally speaking, sampletank is a sample based workstation with drums, guitars, strings, etc etc., sonik synth is more geared toward a synth workstation, and miroslav is more geared toward orchestral greatness right? what is studiophonik going to offer that is so much different? just curious.

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t-willy

[Squids]

so what's going to be different about studiophonik? i mean generally speaking, sampletank is a sample based workstation with drums, guitars, strings, etc etc., sonik synth is more geared toward a synth workstation, and miroslav is more geared toward orchestral greatness right? what is studiophonik going to offer that is so much different? just curious.

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t-willy

Well, consider first that while those others have guitars, bass, drums etc. their 2 DVD sets also have a lot of other sounds too sharing the space. Studiophonik is focused on JUST guitars, bass and drums plus some select great quality meat & potatoes keyboards and horns (a virtual band). But, the bigger difference is that you have a wide choice of different BRANDS... like almost EVERY brand. So when you call up a guitar you can choose between a Strat, a Tele, a Les Paul, an SG (maybe even the double neck SG that Jimmy Page used ) or a Danelectro, Ricky 12 string, Gretsch Duo Jet or maybe a Country Gentleman, perhaps the Brian May Guild or maybe a Chapman Stick if you're feeling like Tony Levin. Same thing with basses. Then for drums you can choose amongst Ludwigs, Gretsch, DW, Pearl, Sonor, Yamahas, Premiers, Tamas...

So, besides being able to call up the instrumentation of almost any band (well, get you closer than any other module anyway), you also get some enhanced performance capability and mixing inside. Larger instruments with more articulations and velocities but also sometimes the ability to mix between the directs and the overheads or the dry vs. natural room ambience or maybe switch pickups on a guitar or perhaps choose between the direct or miked channel or a balance between the too. Then you can do all of your insert and fx send/returns inside the module with all of SampleTank 2 engine's effects (and eventually more effects added over time).

It's like a studio filled with vintage and top of the line rock and jazz band instruments with the authentic character you'd want as a producer. It is a virtual Jack Joseph Puig. A virtual Steely Dan! Well... you still have to be able to play it. Sort of.

[Wade Cornett]

So when you call up a guitar you can choose between a Strat, a Tele, a Les Paul, an SG (maybe even the double neck SG that Jimmy Page used ) or a Danelectro, Ricky 12 string, Gretsch Duo Jet or maybe a Country Gentleman, perhaps the Brian May Guild or maybe a Chapman Stick if you're feeling like Tony Levin. Same thing with basses. Then for drums you can choose amongst Ludwigs, Gretsch, DW, Pearl, Sonor, Yamahas, Premiers, Tamas...

For Bass sounds I would like to see a Danelectro Horn sampled and some vintage 4001 Chris Squire samples. I believe there could be a market for celeberity bass samples just like the Bun E Carlos drum samples you sell. Most of the time it takes the musician himself to re-create his sound correctly.

[Squids]

We'll probably do Studio ProFiles on bass players and guitarists as well. For example, I think there's a good chance Tony Levin will have a title that works nicely with Jerry's and Mark Egan that works nicely with Dannny's... don't worry!

As for SPK, there's a great 4001. The Dano I have is a guitar that is a convertible acoustic/electric. I own that guitar myself. My favorite guitar to play personally. The Danelectro Horn? Is that the Dano bass or is it something particular? Curious. One of the things I wanted to sample for SPK but just didn't get to it is a Dano Baritone Guitar. But, I'll get hold of one at some point and then it will probably make it in there down the road. I think they used that on Dave Mathews "Space Between" for that droney low chord sound. I mean, you can really do that with another guitar if it is a sample anyway but... these are the subtle things we've been after. Choral Sitars, Chapman sticks, ES335s, GR300s... if you read your album liner notes then you'll find there are a lot of the same instrument in here. I mean, minus things like vintage synths (EMS Synthi, Arps, moogs etc. which you would find in SS2).

[kronkite]

I for one would rather see a "pretty good" release of SP followed by an upgrade than a "perfect" release that never comes...

[Squids]

I for one would rather see a "pretty good" release of SP followed by an upgrade than a "perfect" release that never comes...

Somewhere in the middle of that is what we'll be releasing.

[t-willy]

Then for drums you can choose amongst Ludwigs, Gretsch, DW, Pearl, Sonor, Yamahas, Premiers, Tamas...

cool. the drums are what i'm most interested in personally. so you can actually call up certain types of drum kits? and or pieces? or just brands?

thanks squids.

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t-willy

[Squids]

Then for drums you can choose amongst Ludwigs, Gretsch, DW, Pearl, Sonor, Yamahas, Premiers, Tamas...

cool. the drums are what i'm most interested in personally. so you can actually call up certain types of drum kits? and or pieces? or just brands?

thanks squids.

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t-willy

You can call up different brands and also different pieces to customize your own combi kit. We did it in an interesting way though. You'll see. Actually, I LOVE products like BFD (and SR is going to be supporting it with the Studio ProFile series). However, I think that for the average person who wants SOME mix control (especially where it makes drastic creative differences) but doesn't want the chance to mess the sound up with the mix (which IS very possible if you don't know what you're doing with BFD... or a real multi-channel drum mix for that matter), then I think Studiophonik's drum section could be one of the most musician-friendly, easy to use and diverse sounding (especially with the built-in modeled studio effects).

[brotherone]

Hi!

A question for Squids:
Will there be a lot of heavy guitar samples and patches in Studiophonik?
I have a Yamaha MO6 and there's a patch called "Mega Dist" and it's just the most playable guitar patch with distortion I've ever used.
I know that you also do sounds for the Yamaha machines and so perhaps there's a chance to do this kind of cool stuff for Studiophonik?!?!
That would be great

Best regards
brotherone

[Squids]

Hi!

A question for Squids:
Will there be a lot of heavy guitar samples and patches in Studiophonik?
I have a Yamaha MO6 and there's a patch called "Mega Dist" and it's just the most playable guitar patch with distortion I've ever used.
I know that you also do sounds for the Yamaha machines and so perhaps there's a chance to do this kind of cool stuff for Studiophonik?!?!
That would be great

Best regards
brotherone

Well, a lot of the heavy guitar sounds in Motifs ARE made with the built-in effects. So, Studiophonik which has effects borrowed from AmpliTube 1 inside it will have some of that same quality. But, at the sample level the majority of the electric guitars in Studiophonik are actually dry direct signals (as if you had the guitar to process with) and this is done in a fairly consistent purist way (with a few exceptions). You'll have some great heavy child patches in Studiophonik itself but if you owned say AmpliTube 2 and/or Ampeg SVX then you could almost treat the guitars and basses in Studiophonik like they were the real instruments and run them through those two effects for a really diverse range of possible heavy to whatever type of sounds. This is incredible for keyboard players and producers. Even if you are a guitar player but don't have every brand of guitar or just want to sequence when songwriting to get a mock up or for a specific effect... it is a handy box! Some of you guys will REALLY appreciate the approach of Studiophonik. It has a certain focus of being the raw pure sound and then the built-in effects and/or being an ideal source for external processing.