KVR Audio

musikmachine · Post by **musikmachine** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:27 am

contrary wrote:D16 must all still use CRT's , no ????

Keeping it old school.

musikmachine · Post by **musikmachine** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:45 am

contrary wrote:
Sendy wrote:They're on the case re: GUI scaling options.

Then ( and only then ) I'll have another go with this little beast!

Same here, just too small on the mixer page to even see the values on my laptops screen. Oh well, gives me time to save some pennies i guess.

Mutant · Post by **Mutant** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:33 am

2048x1152x23inch here and some of the labels on the GUI are really hard to see.

fluxmind · Post by **fluxmind** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:14 pm

Once you've familiarized with it, It's quite obvious where is what and there's no need to squint your eyes, so that to read every single letter in a label, on older hardware it's usually not visible at all

Crackbaby · Post by **Crackbaby** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:28 pm

The eyes will automatically try to read the labels so you still will get your headache. It would actually be better to just remove the labels then, like on the old hardware.

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:36 pm

fluxmind wrote:Once you've familiarized with it, It's quite obvious where is what and there's no need to squint your eyes, so that to read every single letter in a label, on older hardware it's usually not visible at all

That may be true for you, but I wont necessarily remember the order of options, especially if I don't happen to use the synth for a couple weeks. Besides, the eye still tries to read it anyway... The GUI is fatiguing on my eyes. My eyes get tired quickly when using Lush and not with my other synths.

Also, the little led options are so freaking small on the screen, that it forces some concentration on mouse precision to hit it correctly each time. I would rather pay attention to the sound rather than mouse precision.

musikmachine · Post by **musikmachine** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 8:34 pm

fluxmind wrote:Once you've familiarized with it, It's quite obvious where is what and there's no need to squint your eyes, so that to read every single letter in a label, on older hardware it's usually not visible at all

My lappys 13" so the labels are impossible to read at all. the knobs are miniscule and can just make out the increments. All i know is, since Fx made synth squads guis scaleable i've been using it a lot more and i swear my eyesight has improved.

davidka · Post by **davidka** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:28 pm

Resized, keyless GUI.

vata44 · Post by **vata44** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 5:43 pm

I wish they did not only hide the Keyboard, but actually make the fonts a bit bigger. Damn font is TINY.

The CPU consumption is another story, but I LOVE the sound and flexibility!

core · Post by **core** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:13 pm

I could probably also just have said "superb synth but needs lot of CPU" but here's yet another review of LuSH-101 http://rekkerd.org/review-d16-group-lus ... er-plugin/

Can't wait to get a better machine

SoulTrain · Post by **SoulTrain** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 2:36 pm

Finally found a time to check the demo of Lush and we were absolutely impressed!

Initially, we considered Lush to be another VA emulation like Diva or the newest TAL-Uno-LX and as a result its sound must be restricted within the range of its old vintage counterpart but we turned out to be wrong.

Lush has its own rich, specific, very consistent sound and additional features like supersaw osc, unison, layers, built-in effects make it much more attractive for producers almost all styles. So D16 did a great job!

Some people here said that Lush has lack in low end we think that its partly true, but its not a disadvantage of the synth. Conversely this creates that bright sound Lush-101 currently has.

But here is our wish list what might be cool to see in the future:

1) CPU consumption now is too high to be every-track-instrument. Draft mode while playing or multi thread support are absolutely necessary.

2) Dry/wet control for built-in insert bitcrusher and distortion.

3) Some sort of resizable GUI like U-he did in DIVA case.

4) Common assignable knobs page to control same parameters of several layers simultaneously.

5) We find that it's a bit overrated, not because it isn't worth the money but because most pieces of audio software are overrated. Look at Arturia and IK Multimedia's recent price drop for their products. There are too many new and younger people come into making music almost everyday and it must cause changes and we think it finally will (sorry for off-topic).

http://soundcloud.com/cravingmusic/d16- ... 01-craving

Here we made a very short demo of several tweaked factory sounds.

Nighthawk77 · Post by **Nighthawk77** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 5:08 pm

SoulTrain wrote:Finally found a time to check the demo of Lush and we were absolutely impressed!

Initially, we considered Lush to be another VA emulation like Diva or the newest TAL-Uno-LX and as a result its sound must be restricted within the range of its old vintage counterpart but we turned out to be wrong.

Lush has its own rich, specific, very consistent sound and additional features like supersaw osc, unison, layers, built-in effects make it much more attractive for producers almost all styles. So D16 did a great job!

Some people here said that Lush has lack in low end we think that its partly true, but its not a disadvantage of the synth. Conversely this creates that bright sound Lush-101 currently has.

But here is our wish list what might be cool to see in the future:

1) CPU consumption now is too high to be every-track-instrument. Draft mode while playing or multi thread support are absolutely necessary.

2) Dry/wet control for built-in insert bitcrusher and distortion.

3) Some sort of resizable GUI like U-he did in DIVA case.

4) Common assignable knobs page to control same parameters of several layers simultaneously.

5) We find that it's a bit overrated, not because it isn't worth the money but because most pieces of audio software are overrated. Look at Arturia and IK Multimedia's recent price drop for their products. There are too many new and younger people come into making music almost everyday and it must cause changes and we think it finally will (sorry for off-topic).

http://soundcloud.com/cravingmusic/d16- ... 01-craving

Here we made a very short demo of several tweaked factory sounds.

Very nice review!

Multi thread support is a MUST for this synth to function correctly.

Great potential not fully realized.

MFXxx · Post by **MFXxx** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:05 pm

Nighthawk77 wrote:
Very nice review!

Multi thread support is a MUST for this synth to function correctly.

Great potential not fully realized.

+1

How many vsts actually use multithread - seems to be very much overlooked by the devs considering the way vsts are moving forward.

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:31 pm

MFXxx wrote:
Nighthawk77 wrote:
Very nice review!

Multi thread support is a MUST for this synth to function correctly.

Great potential not fully realized.
+1

How many vsts actually use multithread - seems to be very much overlooked by the devs considering the way vsts are moving forward.

Not many do... and not many need to as many hosts are multicore capable... in this case, Lush is basically multiple instances of the synth in one... but where two instances on two tracks in the host uses multiple cores automatically, here the multiple instances are built into Lush so it becomes particularly important.

Some of the included presets in Lush are simply unusable for me and I have a 2.8ghz i7

Rabid · Post by **Rabid** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:53 pm

I read a bunch of this thread and then had no desire to get this. After listening to some demos I changed my mind. I'll take great sound over great interface any day.