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Sequent · Post by **Sequent** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:00 am

The original KAOSS pad. That's also why the Z1 can be a good controller... as long as you don't need more keys.

Sampleconstruct wrote:And the x/y touchpad really was a good invention, Z1 is capable of some percussive sounds that come pretty close to Chromaphone but it doesn't have it's pristine-ness...

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:02 am

Sequent wrote:The original KAOSS pad. That's also why the Z1 can be a good controller... as long as you don't need more keys.

Sampleconstruct wrote:And the x/y touchpad really was a good invention, Z1 is capable of some percussive sounds that come pretty close to Chromaphone but it doesn't have it's pristine-ness...

And the keys aren't too bad either, I used it live on many gigs for years...

ariston · Post by **ariston** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:20 am

Ummm... at first glance, this seems to be Collision repackaged, with a few effects added. I'll try the demo later, but.. any opinions on that from someone who owns Collision?

Sequent · Post by **Sequent** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:21 am

Sampleconstruct wrote:And the keys aren't too bad either, I used it live on many gigs for years...

Plus all those control pedals that you can hook into it.

On the clarity... there's a spot on the back for a digital output option. I wonder how the digital out would have compared to the analog out? Maybe that would have helped.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:22 am

Sequent wrote:
Sampleconstruct wrote:And the keys aren't too bad either, I used it live on many gigs for years...
Plus all those control pedals that you can hook into it.

On the clarity... there's a spot on the back for a digital output option. I wonder how the digital out would have compared to the analog out? Maybe that would have helped.

I never tried the digital out, will do...

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:36 am

Sampleconstruct:

Nice demos, guy!

An interesting note: As I was running your first demo on my laptop, my 5-year-old daughter came up to me, and said: 'That sounds like Coraline!' My 9-year-old son did the same thing, concurring: 'That really does sound like Coraline!'

Chromaphone came totally out of left field! What a pleasant (and shocking) surprise!

It's great to see AAS alive and kicking!

Sequent · Post by **Sequent** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:40 am

Sampleconstruct wrote:I never tried the digital out, will do...

You have the digital output card on yours?

Sequent · Post by **Sequent** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:41 am

Oh, that's just tooooo funny!

goldenanalog wrote:Sampleconstruct:

Nice demos, guy!

An interesting note: As I was running your first demo on my laptop, my 5-year-old daughter came up to me, and said: 'That sounds like Coraline!' My 9-year-old son did the same thing, concurring: 'That really does sound like Coraline!'

Chromaphone came totally out of left field! What a pleasant (and shocking) surprise!

It's great to see AAS alive and kicking!

dayjob · Post by **dayjob** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:49 am

checked out the demo for a while tonight. i hate the timed demo. so annoying. i'm fine with sound being interrupted.. isn't one method of disturbance enough?

anyway - it sounds great but who wouldn't expect that from AAS when it comes to this kind of physical modelling of percussive instruments? it's probably the best part of Tassman.

i'm not in love w/the GUI of this thing. some of the text is super small and i find the modulation knobs to be too small as well. still, a much better gui than Logic's sculpture and as said it does sound really great.

i haven't gotten the email w/the coupon either. hopefully soon.

Samplecnstruct, those demos sound cool. thanks for posting them.

add me to the group who's glad they got this out of their system and now Tassman5 please

Sequent · Post by **Sequent** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:50 am

I never paid much attention to specific plugins for Ableton so I never knew about Collision. I'm wondering whether you might not be right.

If so... still, it's nice now to have it as a vst.

I just timed out... (again) but I was getting some really nice Hang-like tones. I liked them MUCH better than my Hang samples.

ariston wrote:Ummm... at first glance, this seems to be Collision repackaged, with a few effects added. I'll try the demo later, but.. any opinions on that from someone who owns Collision?

krandr · Post by **krandr** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:57 am

Can't find partials shifting knob on the resonator modules.

Has anybody see it?
Tassman has it. Collision has it. NI Prism has it. NI Razor has it. NI Lazerbass has it.
CHROMAPHONE IS WITHOUT IT!!!

I think partials shifting is the most interested effect in the additive synthesys.

Sequent · Post by **Sequent** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:59 am

Yep, just when you start really getting into it the demo times out!

Some of those elements ARE kind of tiny. Perhaps a hint of things to come in the Tassman 5 gui?

dayjob wrote:checked out the demo for a while tonight. i hate the timed demo. so annoying. i'm fine with sound being interrupted.. isn't one method of disturbance enough?

anyway - it sounds great but who wouldn't expect that from AAS when it comes to this kind of physical modelling of percussive instruments? it's probably the best part of Tassman.

i'm not in love w/the GUI of this thing. some of the text is super small and i find the modulation knobs to be too small as well. still, a much better gui than Logic's sculpture and as said it does sound really great.

i haven't gotten the email w/the coupon either. hopefully soon.

Samplecnstruct, those demos sound cool. thanks for posting them.

add me to the group who's glad they got this out of their system and now Tassman5 please

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:06 am

ariston wrote:Ummm... at first glance, this seems to be Collision repackaged, with a few effects added. I'll try the demo later, but.. any opinions on that from someone who owns Collision?

That's what I was thinking. In which case why have they not included the separate effect that comes with it?

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:06 am

Sequent wrote:Oh, that's just tooooo funny!

I was quite amused myself, Sequent!

Just spent a little bit of time checking out sampleconstruct's other music (he's REALLY good); I would ALMOST call this softie an essential alternative to what's available (and what most of us already have-I apologize for making some asumptions, here)-I'm sure that there are other audio softs out there that sound like Chromaphone that I don't know about, but Chromaphone is both fundamentally percussive, and ridiculously versatile!

That's weird.

Fundamentally percussive, and ridiculously versatile...

It's going to take me a while to wrap my head around that-maybe some acid would help!

dayjob · Post by **dayjob** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:12 am

Sequent wrote:Yep, just when you start really getting into it the demo times out!

Some of those elements ARE kind of tiny. Perhaps a hint of things to come in the Tassman 5 gui?

ugh. i hope not. hopefully, tassman being a 'flagship' product with customization as one of its core features it'll have some resizing options for the gui knobs etc.

oh and re: comparison w/Live's Collision, yeah.. definitely in the same ball park there but initial impression is that chromophone sounds better.. but could just be better presets. or the verb glossing over something

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