OH boy...before this thread devolves into a DAW vs. DAW then to Mac vs. PC [we already covered spelling and grammarchilly7 wrote: ...i think it is pretty good DAW and one of the best ones, but it is more for DJs and performance oriented DAW but i need something with supper deep editing possibilities and the best possible signal flawn and summing algorithms and Samplitude looks like exectly what i need
], I had a few questions/suggestions regarding the actual topic at hand. In trying to think about additions or components to Diva in a way that captures the spirit of vintage synths and not necessarily clones, would any of this make sense:1. To add an LP3 to the Multimode VCF to get closer for the 303 / SH-101 crowd? I don't know if it was, but the VCF Multimode seems to be already modeled from a Roland filter, and has the right controls already other than an 18dB mode. Obviously, there's more to 303s than that, but a 3-pole mode may help get it close enough.
2. A new filter module called "VCF|Curtis" modeled on the CEM3320 VCF with 12/24dB modes for OBXa/Xpander, Prophet [rev3], and Synthex type sounds. Again, to get close enough, and add a different color to the palette for all those "tame" sounds that aren't quite covered, yet.
3. ARP 2500 - Personally, I've actually always been more partial to ARPs than Moogs, though I love them, too. I'm curious what modules [HW, I mean] were in the plans to model. There was a dual VCO that has a stepped waveform selector, but the single VCO module that had 5 simultaneous waveforms with different volume controls for each. Of course, this one, with a Dual version in software would be dreamy, and of course to be able to use with Duophonic mode. Would be sinful to have an ARP without Duo mode, even though that was after the 2500's time
I don't think you go wrong with any of the ARP filters...Again, I realize these old beasts were more than the sum of their parts. Even the machines that used the same components sounded very different from each other, and just having a filter doesn't make it a clone of that machine. No matter what actual models get decided on, my vote simply goes for ultra high quality modeling of the components, with their quirks. I feel so far, a good job has been done with this in Diva. So many other plugins and VA hardware for that matter come up short on the sound, and try to mask these shortcomings loading it up with effects, insane amounts of mod matrices, phrase arpeggiators, vocoders, etc. I firmly stand that Diva should be the opposite of this.
I think making "unique" and "interesting" sounds is up to us, not the instrument creators. Sometimes, I just need a patch that took me less than 5 minutes to make to sit nice in my mix. If it's missing a little something, I can layer it with another sound that has what's missing. If I need some speaker-ripping aggressiveness, there's a bunch of effects outside of a soft synth that will let me do that, too. In both cases, I find I can get there much faster if the source sound is as good as it can be. Just my 2 cents...
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