KVR Audio

Astrin · Post by **Astrin** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:21 pm

It's pretty hit and miss with my attempts to contact Zephod.

Anyone know if he's really serious about BLOK ? There's nothing going on at his forum -- you can't even sign up(I tried). Hope this isn't another good thing (BLOK) going to waste.....

todd_r · Post by **todd_r** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:09 pm

Astrin wrote:It's pretty hit and miss with my attempts to contact Zephod.

Anyone know if he's really serious about BLOK ? There's nothing going on at his forum -- you can't even sign up(I tried). Hope this isn't another good thing (BLOK) going to waste.....

This is the last form Zephod on the forum, Jan 31, 2011 10:00 am

Zephod wrote: Hi!

The current status is -> waiting for me to finish off all my clientwork.

I've been booked pretty much fulltime for the last few months. As soon as the work is over again and I've had some rest, I'll be back on Blok as fulltime as I can give it

The current "beta" (371) has had very little issues reported (1 unreproducable one in Reaper) so I'm very close to declaring it "stable". The next featurepush will most likely involve me trying to get some sampling goodness in there as well as better control signal generation.

Greetings,

Stijn / Zephod

Astrin · Post by **Astrin** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:54 pm

Yeah I saw that too.

We all have to pay the bills I guess, but if BLOK is a business for him, he should be more responsive. Lots of developers will sell you something, then you wait for fixes, updates whatever--using the reason/excuse they have to finish other work. Even if the product is cheap or you got a great deal, if you leave your customers hanging, they may or may not come to you when "you have time."

It isn't just here at KVR, it's all over the net. Zephod has a good reputation from what I gather due to his Buzz developing. But if you're Picasso and your paintings never get done what's the point?

No disrespect intended..

TFF · Post by **TFF** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:58 pm

I own BLOK, and I love it as it is. But really, ANY sort of communication would be good. Just get on Twitter once in awhile or something, let people know you're still there.

Jesse J · Post by **Jesse J** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:43 pm

I just found out about this software. I have a Nord Modular G1 expanded and I feel quite at home making patches, not really a newbie. I have been testing and creating patches for Sonigen modular for a few weeks and loving it A LOT. How do those of you who have been using Blok Modular for a while feel about it? I would like to hear some user experiences!

todd_r · Post by **todd_r** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:09 pm

Updates from twitter, new spline envelope

http://blokmodular.com/dev/splineenv3.png

randomelement2` · Post by **randomelement2`** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:42 am

I just came across this synth in another KVR thread, and found this video-

I'm really liking the sounds. I went to the BLOK site, but so far can't find a list of modules. Am I missing it? What I'm really wondering is if it can load SFZ's and can do granular. But for the price, it definitely has my attention.

TFF · Post by **TFF** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:29 pm

randomelement2' wrote:I'm really liking the sounds. I went to the BLOK site, but so far can't find a list of modules. Am I missing it? What I'm really wondering is if it can load SFZ's and can do granular. But for the price, it definitely has my attention.

http://wiki.blokmodular.com/index.php/Available_blocks

As of now it can't do any sort of granular stuff. Maybe that's planned for the future.

randomelement2` · Post by **randomelement2`** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:44 pm

Thank you. I saw that before, but I didn't see things that were specific. For instance, on the home page it says "Additive, Subtractive and FM synthesis are all possible." So I was expecting to find a page listing things like an additive oscillator, etc. I know it can load .wav's but didn't see anything about SFZs. Still, it sounds mighty impressive.

TFF · Post by **TFF** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 3:19 am

Yeah, an additive oscillator would be fantastic, as well as some more...understandable modulation options.

mute · Post by **mute** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:10 pm

Zephod is usually on irc and he's open to discussing Blok. His nick changes, but you can normally locate him in #buzz.

Ghostwave · Post by **Ghostwave** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:59 am

Any news on the development?
I've own it for over a year and it's been very slow.
I loved it to begin with but then moved to more achieved modular solutions (KarmaFX and Sonigen).
Still, I'd like to see it grow ...

liquidsound · Post by **liquidsound** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 12:55 pm

I thought (seen in the demo patches) you can use an Osc and feed another one for FM modulation even though FM Osc are not listed. Is this correct? I'm new to sound design.
I like its sound and I would like to use it to learn FM.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:32 pm

Ghostwave wrote:Any news on the development?

Anybody know of any news, [blok] website seems quite dead

Anyone heard from Zephod (BLOK Modular)