"you must understand"!Numanoid wrote:What you must understand
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OK, let's try to rephrase that shall we, "what you must try to understand"hakey wrote:"you must understand"!Numanoid wrote:What you must understand
That would be my fault. I told Paul to ask for that review. I was so taken with the sound of DIVA I thought that he should review it for SOS. Thankfully, he liked as much as I did.Numanoid wrote:The guy reviewing Diva has been producing and making records for over 30 years.
I forgot that you are snowed in, metaphoricallyhakey wrote:tone down the silly rhetoric - why must I try?
OK so you know the reviewer. Can you testify that he knows analogue synths inside and out, and thus is more capable of making a sound judgment about Diva's sound quality, rather than newbies like me or others who have been playing with plugins just a couple of years or so.Synthbuilder wrote:That would be my fault. I told Paul to ask for that review. I was so taken with the sound of DIVA I thought that he should review it for SOS. Thankfully, he liked as much as I did.Numanoid wrote:The guy reviewing Diva has been producing and making records for over 30 years.
Paul's been playing synths for well over 30 years. He knows his stuff alright. I like to think that I do too.Numanoid wrote:Can you testify that he knows analogue synths inside and out, and thus is more capable of making a sound judgment about Diva's sound quality, rather than newbies like me or others who have been playing with plugins just a couple of years or so.
Actually, Paul was quite sceptical before the review. Some comments on Facebook suggest that he hadn't had any high hopes, he even disliked the whole concept of Diva. When I heard that he'd write a review, I almost fainted. Thus I was *very* happy when his review turned out to be positive.Synthbuilder wrote:That would be my fault. I told Paul to ask for that review. I was so taken with the sound of DIVA I thought that he should review it for SOS. Thankfully, he liked as much as I did.Numanoid wrote:The guy reviewing Diva has been producing and making records for over 30 years.
I have posted elsewhere that it does sound quite strident in the high freq. On the flipside - it is one of the few synths that captures the brightness of an analogue oscillator - and to do that - I think you need to oversample. Hence the CPU cost.daExpert wrote:I hear people rave about how awesome Diva is and I just don't see it. It's a nice synth but I feel that it has some weaknesses.
I find it sounds somewhat harsh in the higher frequencies, it's an unpleasant harshness that neither zebra or ace have.
The filters have some nice warmth to them, but the front to back depth is just not there. When you sweep the filters on the KLAE MS-20 or V-Station there is a front to back sensation of the sound jumping out at you, whereas in Diva the sound stays flat and 2-dimensional, regardless of the interesting warmth and harmonics going on.
The oscillators by themselves have a thinness in the upper registers.
For the sound it gives you it uses up rather large amounts of CPU.
Maybe this post will trigger some new ideas and thoughts. God bless.
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