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Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:44 pm

is there a random button?

LeVzi · Post by **LeVzi** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:44 pm

Rayblaster takes some getting used to. I still dunno how it works, nor can I get my head around it.

It's a real tweakers paradise this one, and if you are into the methods it uses, then you'll have a blast.

For me, i'm sticking to Gladiator/ElectraX and Saurus. RB has just got me beat.

Bubbamusic · Post by **Bubbamusic** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:51 pm

Wow !

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:52 pm

Caine123 wrote:is there a random button?

Yes, tho its labelled 'BUY'

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:53 pm

LeVzi wrote:
Kriminal wrote:
500 outstanding presets from some of the world's top sound designers
who are they? cant find any info on the website.

No need to be bitter, just because you weren't asked.

Eh? Its a simple question, did you have trouble understanding it?

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:54 pm

Kriminal wrote:
500 outstanding presets from some of the world's top sound designers
who are they? cant find any info on the website.

Just click on the "Rayblaster" logo to open the credits.

Anyway here is a list of the people who contributed to Rayblaster (many thanks to all of them..):

Development:
Markus Krause (former Feil MF)
Bastiaan van Noord (BN)
Ingo Weidner (IW)

Programming & Graphics:
Markus Krause (former Feil MF)

Sound design:
Markus Krause (former Feil MF)
Bastiaan van Noord (BN)
Ingo Weidner (IW)
Himalaya (H)
George Zondagh (GZ)
Massimo Bosco (MxS)
Satya Choudhury (sT)
Ed Ten Eyck (EDT)
Rob Fabrie (RF)
Stephen Krajewski (SK)
Sami Rabia (AZ)
Reinhard Reschner (RR)
...

Handbook:
Bastiaan van Noord (BN)
Jay Levzi
Markus Krause

Beta testing:
Jeremy Sagan
Zach Archer (ZA)
Rob Mitchell

BTW the name of Markus had changed to "Markus Krause" as he had just married...

I also don't know exactly why my name is also in the "development" part but maybe because i provided a bunch of waveforms which i also provided to all beta testers for download and use in the presets. I am not sure how many presets are actually based on my waveforms.

PS:
Many thanks to KVR user davidka (the user that started this thread) who i asked to change the thread title. Many thanks for doing this!

Ingo

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 1:04 pm

will there be a video showing the randomize function? i want to hear how it is compared to gladiator.

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 2:14 pm

Ingonator wrote:
Kriminal wrote:
500 outstanding presets from some of the world's top sound designers
who are they? cant find any info on the website.
Just click on the "Rayblaster" logo to open the credits.

Sound design:
Markus Krause (former Feil MF)
Bastiaan van Noord (BN)
Ingo Weidner (IW)
Himalaya (H)
George Zondagh (GZ)
Massimo Bosco (MxS)
Satya Choudhury (sT)
Ed Ten Eyck (EDT)
Rob Fabrie (RF)
Stephen Krajewski (SK)
Sami Rabia (AZ)
Reinhard Reschner (RR)

Ingo

Are they known under diff names? I know a couple from kvr but thats it.

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 2:16 pm

Caine123 wrote:will there be a video showing the randomize function? i want to hear how it is compared to gladiator.

Doesnt the demo version do it?

ThomasHelzle · Post by **ThomasHelzle** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 2:44 pm

Tone2 should think again about the way the demo time ends.
I was just playing one of the (not so many) subtle patches when that "time up" noise blasted my ears.

Instant deletion followed.

I also have to agree with the "tone2-sound" comments from others.
For some patches it works very well, but after going through a lot of presets it felt very much same-same to me.

But it's true to it's name - people who are into "blasting" should love it

Best of luck with it.

Cheers,

Tom

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 2:47 pm

Kriminal wrote:
Ingonator wrote:
Kriminal wrote:
500 outstanding presets from some of the world's top sound designers
who are they? cant find any info on the website.
Just click on the "Rayblaster" logo to open the credits.

Sound design:
Markus Krause (former Feil MF)
Bastiaan van Noord (BN)
Ingo Weidner (IW)
Himalaya (H)
George Zondagh (GZ)
Massimo Bosco (MxS)
Satya Choudhury (sT)
Ed Ten Eyck (EDT)
Rob Fabrie (RF)
Stephen Krajewski (SK)
Sami Rabia (AZ)
Reinhard Reschner (RR)

Ingo
Are they known under diff names? I know a couple from kvr but thats it.

I did beta testing, and wrote a demo song, but not preset design
(aka Rob Mitchell)

MaxSynths · Post by **MaxSynths** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:07 pm

Ingonator wrote:Thanks for your (and those from the other sound designers) contributions to Raybblaster.

Thanks to you as well Ingo

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:51 pm

Tone2 is using some kind of psychoacoustic enhancement (since Gladiator?). So maybe this Tone2 sound depends also a bit of this stuff.

Anyway... Clean and easy interface (remembers a bit to Saurus in some parts).
I think the demo time is now a bit longer?
Some presets showing that there is some new/other/different sound which can be created with this synth. But I don't know... this time for me not an instant buy. Maybe it needs some more time with testing... But 2013 is also a good year to buy some further Tone2 products

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:54 pm

Caine123 wrote:is there a random button?

There is no Randomizer AFAIK, at least i haven't found one.

In the edit menu the available choices are:
"init all", "init matrix", "init arp/gate", "copy Osc1 to Osc2" and "copy Osc2 to Osc1"

BTW a feature that was not mentioned so far is that from the "File" menu you cold load and save arpeggiator patterns. There is already a bunch included for loading i the "Rayblaster Arp" folder in the installation folder.

Ingo

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 5:05 pm

ThomasHelzle wrote: I also have to agree with the "tone2-sound" comments from others.
For some patches it works very well, but after going through a lot of presets it felt very much same-same to me.

I don't know what you're talking about. With 12 sound designers, each with a different inspiration and ideas, i don't know what you mean about a "Tone2 sound".

I don't even agree that all Tone2 synths have the same sounds. Saurus for example sounds different than the VA engine in ElectraX. If you don't recognize you maybe have never made your own presets with both.

Also each of their synths got it's own special features not included in the other synths like e.g the HCM in Gladiator.

Anyway if something like that exists what's wrong about a company having it's own "signature sound". In case of Tone2 this seems to be kind of pleasing for my ears as most of there synths seem to have a clear and sharp instead of a "muffled" sound.

Many people raved and still do about the "Moog sound" while many of their synths seem to sound quite different even when based on a comparable filter model...

BTW with the first Beta version there were only a few tutorial presets which did not hold back finding the synth very inspiring.
When i started doing presets i also didn't think my goal should be to create a sound that nobody has ever heard before. I had certain sounds in my mind which then i tried to realize. If i am not totally wrong there are also some sound i would call new.

Personally i would call Rayblaster a "different approach" instead of a "totally new" approach like when FM came out first. Many people used FM to create analog sounds until they started doing something like e.g. Bell and Choir like tones.
Those tones were also not totally new but the new thing was that so many different timbres could be done with a single synth.
The strength of Rayblaster is the many ways it could handle even a simple ssingle cycle wave and then doing modulation of most of the Osc parameters.

Ingo

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