KVR Audio

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:28 am

For the record, I didn't make this with DC in mind, it just happened to be sort of finished in time to enter, so I did. It was a last-minute decision, so it doesn't have a whole heap of presets. If it is within the rules, I will make some more and upload them here. If anyone else would like to share some of their sounds, we could get a library going, which would suit it's role for basic, every-day use. It was made in the SynthEdit 1.1 Beta, so it shouldn't suffer from the multi-threading problems of old and it supports "MIDI learn" by right-clicking on any control. You will also find fairly extensive, and hopefully worthwhile, use of tool-tips to help you decipher the teeny-weeny GUI.

Philosophy
I made SIMPLICITY with convenience in mind. I find the UI layout to be very useful in Orion and hopefully some of that may transfer to other hosts. It is designed to be a "bread & butter" type synth, so you can add half-a-dozen and stack them in a corner of your host UI and get to them really easily when you need to tweak anything.

The Bits
The oscillators are Chris Kerry's 2k Unison Oscillators, so they are of the highest quality. Because they have unison built-in, you can stack 7 voices for almost no extra CPU overhead. All but SAW 1 and SINE have width modulation, exactly like PWM, so it's easy to get big, moving pads and interesting leads from them. Use the Pulse control to set the width. PWM modulation uses the envelope [of course]. Turn sync on for hard biting bass attack.
The filter uses SE's standard State-Variable Filter, locked into low-pass mode but with 12 or 24dB/octave slope available. Envelope modulation uses the same envelope as the VCA, with different interpolation methods [slope] available for different kinds of sounds. Velocity modulation has 4 different levels. Env Mod can also be set to negative, so that it closes the filter instead of opening it, which is also good for long, evolving pads and such.
The LFO syncs to host tempo and provides 5 destinations through 3 knobs. The first two knobs go to different destinations when you turn them left or right, the third knob is for Cutoff, and turning left changes the phase so that it is opposite to the others.
The rest of it is pretty straightforward, although the overdrive is not as good as I wanted it to be. Mono mode is required for Portamento to work, but because of the way the oscillators work, you still get unison in Mono mode. [Bonus!]

deaf dunderkwac · Post by **deaf dunderkwac** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 6:03 am

works great and is... simplicity- no issues here

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:18 am

Yep, no issues at all.

Sounds great; I was tweaking the Rampant(?) preset, taking the filter env mod right down and I got maybe the deepest sound i've ever heard from a vst, literally made my phones shake.

So, thanks for that, ears still ringing...

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:00 pm

My pleasure, although I should probably charge more for eardrum rupturing. I'm not sure why but Ramp1 and Ramp 2 are really nice waveforms and completely different to the saws, where usually ramps and saws sound the same. Whatever the reason, it makes things even more interesting.

omac · Post by **omac** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 5:02 pm

Thanks. It works fine in FL 9, and of course Orion. I just found this page. I guess I'm a little late. I have about 25 presets I made that I would like to share. Do you want me to post them in the banks & patches, or are you collecting them elsewhere? You've got some really big sounds in simplicity. Thanks, Bones.

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:57 am

Can you email them to me, please? My email is my user name [in lower case] at novakill.com. Thanks heaps for doing them. I've done a few more recently, so I'll put yours and mine together in a new bank, if that's cool with you?

omac · Post by **omac** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:44 am

They're on their way. Don't thank me until you've heard them

You might have got that message multiple times too. Outlook 2007 is kicking my a**
Al

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:38 am

They sound pretty good to me. I'll definitely include them in the full bank.

omac · Post by **omac** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:11 am

Thanks for the comments. I went to visit your myspace page and then noticed that maybe the type of presets were a little tame for you. I think I should have gone much harder instead of the melodic trance type of stuff. I've got some time, do I need to work on some harder dirtier presets?

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:59 am

Not unless you want to, we have that covered reasonably well already.

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:04 am

Well, no inevitable questions. Who'd 'a' thunk it?

D.H. Miltz · Post by **D.H. Miltz** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 10:59 am

No questions, just: Thanks for this.

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