KVR Audio

Brittlestem · Post by **Brittlestem** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:17 pm

DavenH wrote:The advertising for this synth seems to be entirely a numbers game. Should I wait for the synth with 96 filter types? No. More oscillators and more everything will only make it harder to program. Past 4 oscillators and the basic distinct filter types there are such diminishing returns I don't know why anyone bothers with them.

It reminds me of how designers hand-made tens of thousands of animations for the sims 3 (or w/e), where if they designed something more powerful like proper AI to control the animations they would have saved a bunch of time and made everything more seamless.
I am of the mind that when you need that many of something to get the job done, it's not powerful enough in its essence. So perhaps instead of 23 filters there should be a filter designer that could produce any of them and more. That sort of thing.

It's got too many skins and, if I know Tone2, too many presets. Why do they bother?
It's not out yet, we haven't even heard it and already it's got my vote for Worst Synth of the Year.

MaxSynths · Post by **MaxSynths** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:50 pm

Often people asked for different skins in Gladiator, so I think it's a wise choice to give the user the option to choose a ligh or dark or x skin. Concerning the presets: there will be a lot of interesting presets on board and this is something useful for a synth like this. Browsing presets the user has the immediate chance to hear what the instrument can do and have a better understanding of the synth programming

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:28 pm

re_mute wrote: It's got too many skins and, if I know Tone2, too many presets. Why do they bother?
It's not out yet, we haven't even heard it and already it's got my vote for Worst Synth of the Year.

LOL! That's funny!

MaxSynths wrote:Often people asked for different skins in Gladiator, so I think it's a wise choice to give the user the option to choose a ligh or dark or x skin. Concerning the presets: there will be a lot of interesting presets on board and this is something useful for a synth like this. Browsing presets the user has the immediate chance to hear what the instrument can do and have a better understanding of the synth programming

I still would like to know if I'm going to have to buy extra soundsets in order to gain full access to all of Electrax's functionality.

-goldenanalog

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 11:02 pm

1-2-Many wrote:More bothersome for me on the GUI is the strange lighting. Especially on the displays.

Now that you mention it this does look very much like something designed by Scott Kane..............

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 11:03 pm

MaxSynths wrote:Often people asked for different skins in Gladiator, so I think it's a wise choice to give the user the option to choose a ligh or dark or x skin. Concerning the presets: there will be a lot of interesting presets on board and this is something useful for a synth like this. Browsing presets the user has the immediate chance to hear what the instrument can do and have a better understanding of the synth programming

I think re_mute was being sarcastic........

MaxSynths · Post by **MaxSynths** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 11:05 pm

goldenanalog wrote:I still would like to know if I'm going to have to buy extra soundsets in order to gain full access to all of Electrax's functionality.

I don't know if there will be expansions just like for Gladiator. By the way the answer to your question is no. ElectraX functionality (the features listed in the product description) are all available on the synth (I think it's pretty clear

).

It's a bit polemic but you have what you pay for, just like for Gladiator. Any expansion is an extra feature, not something that has been denied to the customer.

Concerning possible ElectraX expansion this is up to Tone2, I'm not aware of these details.

Max

MaxSynths · Post by **MaxSynths** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 11:06 pm

Teksonik wrote:I think re_mute was being sarcastic........

Yes I know, but this is KVR... it's better to dot the "i"s

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 11:12 pm

MaxSynths wrote:
Teksonik wrote:I think re_mute was being sarcastic........
Yes I know, but this is KVR... it's better to dot the "i"s

So true.

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 11:29 pm

MaxSynths wrote:The features listed in the product description are all available on the synth.

Max

So, WYSIWYG: Thanks for confirming, MaxSynths! Appreciated!

I'm looking forward to some compelling audio demos!

-goldenanalog

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 11:58 pm

goldenanalog wrote:
MaxSynths wrote:The features listed in the product description are all available on the synth.

Max
So, WYSIWYG: Thanks for confirming, MaxSynths! Appreciated!

I'm looking forward to some compelling audio demos!

-goldenanalog

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Sod the Audio Demos I want the Synth Demo.............

MitchK1989 · Post by **MitchK1989** » Sat Nov 06, 2010 12:03 am

17 pages and no audio demos anywhere.

I therefore conclude that this plugin produces no audio.

jens · Post by **jens** » Sat Nov 06, 2010 1:08 am

goldenanalog wrote: I still would like to know if I'm going to have to buy extra soundsets in order to gain full access to all of Electrax's functionality.

Since this was not the case with any previous Tone2 products I'm wondering what gives you this idea...

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Sat Nov 06, 2010 2:07 am

jens wrote:Since this was not the case with any previous Tone2 products I'm wondering what gives you this idea...

From the Tone 2 website (ref: Gladiator 2.2):

'Gladiator 2 ships with an inspiring library of 1105 outstanding presets from top sound designers. Besides that a variety of expansion banks is available to further expand Gladiator's features and preset library. All sounds are arranged into categories for easy access to the sound you require.'

Some of the features are 'locked' (in Gladiator 2.2, at least) until you install the expansion banks.

I bought Gladiator 2.2 w/the Electronic Expansion; then purchased the 'State Of The Art Expansion' separately to unlock the rest of Gladiator 2.2's features.

-goldenanalog

jens · Post by **jens** » Sat Nov 06, 2010 2:14 am

And? These are paid updgrades. What do you consider worth mentioning about them?

I can't imagine that you have never been coming across paid upgrades on other products in the past so I have to assume you're just attempting to be controversial for the sake of it.

That's called 'trolling' b.t.w. .

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Sat Nov 06, 2010 2:20 am

jens wrote:And? These are paid updgrades. What do you consider worth mentioning about them?

I can't imagine that you have never been coming across paid upgrades on other products in the past so I have to assume you're just attempting to be controversial for the sake of it.

That's called 'trolling' b.t.w. .

LOL!

We have a difference in perspective on several things, me thinks.

Oh, well.

-goldenanalog

Available soon: Tone2 ElectraX