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Cordelia · Post by **Cordelia** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 1:23 am

Well, I guess I'll let this beautiful plant die. I tried to love it, I want to love it, I still want to buy it but I won't. I'm just not enjoying the sound of Synplant.
Damn.
Still, an amazing thing in its way.

elxsound · Post by **elxsound** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 1:28 am

Sascha Franck wrote:Fwiw, as I haven't bought it yet (I will, straight after x-mas), I've been faced with the expired demo version:

Gotta love it

I was wondering if it would do that... Glad you posted a pic!

Now I want to know if the buttons will look any different on Christmas... I can't remember if microtonic only had the different buttons on Easter, or if it was on several major holidays.

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:26 am

Cordelia wrote: I'm just not enjoying the sound of Synplant.

I gotta admit that, soundwise, I seem to have some tools in my arsenal which usually do a better "sonic" job. Also, once you found a sound which is more or less "suitable" in Synplant, tweaking it to exactly fit your needs is quite a cumbersome experience (the gene modification section is anything but intuitive to deal with, especially from the GUI side of things - I wish it'd just change to some "usual" VA kinda interface instead of all that scrolling wobbliness).
Yet, the general approach is simply incredible, especially for non-synth-experts like me. This alone deserves getting supported, and it's exactly why I'll be buying it.

Ah, another thing: I'm constructing quite some sampler patches pretty often, using a lot of virtual instruments for such purposes, and finding new, inspirational sources for those has never been easier than with Synplant.

- Sascha

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:37 am

Just in case you don't know, Sascha, in the dna editor you can just click and drag directly on the numbers. Makes things a little less wobbly!

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 10:39 am

polyslax wrote:Just in case you don't know, Sascha, in the dna editor you can just click and drag directly on the numbers. Makes things a little less wobbly!

Yeah, I know this. Yet, all the animated scrolling and stuff is just not what I like.
Really, I'm one of the first persons to like a fresh interface approach, but in Synplant, the "gene" editor isn't qualifying for being anything new, it's the same old parameters we all know - and I fail to see a reason why it'd be any more complicated to handle than in other synths.
And just so that nobody gets me wrong: I *love* Synplant's basic interface. It's new, it's refreshing, coming up with *something* is quite easier than it has ever been, etc.
But still, once you want to edit something in detail, you're faced with quite some scrolling madness and wobbliness. And well, even if the developers say that this would be "in line" with the rest of the GUI (which I even may agree with), it doesn't make detailed editing any easier.
Personally, I see the basic GUI of Synplant as a set of macro editors. Laid out incredibly well and all that. But I really like having access to some individual parameters and fail to see why this should be any more complicated than on your bog standard VA synth. Which, at least IMO, it is.

Cheers
Sascha

unangular · Post by **unangular** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:52 am

Just one "small" question?
Did Mr Magnus forgotten something?
Some little thing? Ummm...
A midi assignable parameters in gene window?
Is this instrument or toy?
Fine tune [mouse???], assigning midi LFO/s to certain parameter,
AUTOMATE [more then one at time!!!] parameter/s... ???
WTF???

Sinth is mint but...
WTF?

mechanoflora · Post by **mechanoflora** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:56 am

It's fun to play with although the patches it creates are far from conventional. I'm into experimental stuff so I'm enjoying the demo so far.

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 2:43 pm

unangular wrote:Just one "small" question?
Did Mr Magnus forgotten something?
Some little thing? Ummm...
A midi assignable parameters in gene window?
Is this instrument or toy?
Fine tune [mouse???], assigning midi LFO/s to certain parameter,
AUTOMATE [more then one at time!!!] parameter/s... ???
WTF???

Sinth is mint but...
WTF?

I totally agree. The synth would be so much more useful if the gene parameters could be midi mapped and automated. They are so much fun to tweak. But with a mouse??? blehhh.

andrew71 · Post by **andrew71** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:44 pm

Has the discount for MicroTonic users expired on this now? I can't see it mentioned on the site. I've only recently set my music gear up again and this looks like one of the freshest synths I've seen in a long while. A 25% discount would definitely sell it to me.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed May 20, 2015 6:37 pm

So.... Boris Blank is a fan of SynPlant

Apostate · Post by **Apostate** » Wed May 20, 2015 6:42 pm

I've been demo'ing this bad little baby for the past week. I really like the gui, and I get some seriously killer atonal sounds from it. I guess the price is just a bit too high for me.

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Wed May 20, 2015 10:01 pm

I've demoed Synplant several times. While I love the main interface, the sound just doesn't live up to my expectations. That makes me kind of sad, because I own and love all their other products. I keep hoping for a dramatically updated v2.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Wed May 20, 2015 10:51 pm

I think the next version needs to be Synplants vs zombies

Apostate · Post by **Apostate** » Wed May 20, 2015 11:46 pm

aMUSEd wrote:I think the next version needs to be Synplants vs zombies

That's a no brainer...from more than one perspective.

Kidding (in a Butthead voice: "I'd buy it")

DJMashbot · Post by **DJMashbot** » Thu May 21, 2015 10:42 am

I believe Sonic Charge said they were working on updating this next (since they completed the Echobode VST). Last I heard, they wanted to add and change some things in addition to making it 64-bit. Synplant's major draw for me has been it's simplicity; play an octave, scroll the mod wheel, repeat until you like it. It's more of an inspiration tool than a workhorse.

sonic charge synplant is out!