KVR Audio

Wormhelmet · Post by **Wormhelmet** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 1:45 pm

Anyone else feel like this?

I just finished up with about 64 new patches in the last two months. Problem is they are spread out on 6 synths.

Too hard to sit and make a bank of 64 for just one. So many good sounding synths I just have to keep jumping around playing with them. Has got me distracted from making songs because I have just as much fun designing sounds on these.

We live in great times to be able to carry the sonic arsenal with us everywhere so easily.

Scott Murrell · Post by **Scott Murrell** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:06 pm

--I too have a bunch of great synths and it's a shame there's no good way to use them together. With Audiobus you can link them but you can't save that for future use, maybe someday it will allow for this....

Wormhelmet · Post by **Wormhelmet** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:35 pm

Now that's a good idea. Save the AB setups in AB. Loads the source, fx, destination and pops up a note reminder where you have input names of patches used. Multi-source capable.

Scott Murrell · Post by **Scott Murrell** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:55 pm

---Exactly!!

dune_rave · Post by **dune_rave** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:02 pm

6 - 10 synths are too many?
interesting..

And the other questiion of using them together -
In REAPER it's not a problem, simply insert6 synth into one track...

Scott Murrell · Post by **Scott Murrell** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:17 pm

---Thanks for the advice, is Reaper available for the iPad?

Scott Murrell · Post by **Scott Murrell** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:23 pm

---If Audiobus could draw from all of your iPad synths and save the different combinations as setups for instant recall with no fiddling or anything just choose a setup and play this would be a great thing for us live musicians. I don't record (no time/no talent) so primarily I[m always looking for live use things. As it stands, there are some really good synths available ( I guess I own most of them) on the iPad but switching from one app to the other for me isn't easy and it'[s not fast enough between or during songs.
I have 5 hardware synths that I use and one ios synth, I'd love to leave some of those hardware synths at home!!! LOL

Wormhelmet · Post by **Wormhelmet** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:36 pm

dune_rave wrote:6 - 10 synths are too many?
interesting..

And the other questiion of using them together -
In REAPER it's not a problem, simply insert6 synth into one track...

I probably have 30 iPad synths. I just mentioned I programmed 64 patches over 6 synths because it is too easy to get distracted and jump to other synths.

You use Reaper on iPad? Interesting.

mbncp · Post by **mbncp** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:46 pm

Just created a mobile studio including an MBA, 3 iPads, 1 mini, 1 iPhone , 2 iodock,1 mpk mini, 1 iu2, 1 motu 828 mk3 that I can connect anytime to my hardware when wanted.

And it's only 15 kg (30 lbs), I have it on wheel but I have no problem to put it on a table or anything.

Now I really start to enjoy my toys, no app swapping, just fooling with these cool apps, and I start to enjoy this more than all my static hardware or my 12 core PC. Each iPad has midi in and out, off course audio out but also audio in that I use as sends in Live.

All I need is a generator and a cart for my bike.

Wormhelmet · Post by **Wormhelmet** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 4:17 pm

Nice. That's a lot of goodies. I'm going to try regimenting myself to program 10 patches in one synth before moving on to the next. I doubt it will work, but I'll give it a shot. This weekend is Magellan...

dune_rave · Post by **dune_rave** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 4:42 pm

Lol - I didn't know you are talking bout Ipad, because in the first posts it wasn't mentioned, and I didn't read the tpic name "Mobile apps...".

IMHO Reaper is for PC or Mac,
Sorry.

Wormhelmet · Post by **Wormhelmet** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:22 pm

I figured as much. It's all good.

iPlogger · Post by **iPlogger** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:33 pm

The more synths the better. I just want unique ones. After awhile, everything was just becoming subtractive synthesis with sine, square and saw waves so I stopped buying them for awhile. I have quite a few but probably use Alchemy Mobile Pro 90% of the time. Followed by Magellan, then Sunrizer and Animoog. Then others on rare occasions.

Wormhelmet · Post by **Wormhelmet** » Sun Apr 14, 2013 3:10 pm

My issue is mostly the distraction of so many good ones, it's hard to sit with one and design sound banks.

I think my iPad synths rival my vst's and hardware in sound. Sound design on them is really easy.

A VA like Cassini and Magellan vs NLog Pro or Sunrizer start making things interesting. Maybe they have the basic saw, tri, square, pulse, but some have more and the filter types get interesting on each. Can't wait for Synth1 to make it over to the App Store. Just a simple VA, but quite capable of very different sounds.

The PPG synths, Animoog, Alchemy, VoiceSynth, Grain Science mix it up pretty good.

Audulus let's you build some complex stuff. TBH - it's too deep for me. I expect some complete standard type modules in a modular, not having to add 5 things together to make just one lfo, but that's my simple understanding speaking louder than my wish to really dig into making complex sub patches for it.

Well, back to Magellan and a morning patch to start the day. The filter selection there makes it pretty interesting.

mbncp · Post by **mbncp** » Mon Apr 15, 2013 12:36 pm

Wormhelmet wrote:My issue is mostly the distraction of so many good ones, it's hard to sit with one and design sound banks.

I love that "distraction", but then I'm not making banks, I almost never store my presets like I never record anything, except what I'm creating while performing, but then it all get's destroyed when the lights go off. Now I appreciate the effort made by sound designers, as I often start with some presets, but it's so easy to tweak them while performing that I would end spending more time hitting the save button than playing.

I have so much fun with all my ipads that I'm seriouly thinking to sell most of my hw stuff and get a couple ipads mini, only problem is that I still havn't found a nice and small interface that gives me audio and midi IO while charging the device and can be turned on and off without a glitch. Would love an interface with 4 stereo ins and outs that connect directly to 4 ipads and transfers audio as ADAT and midi via USB.

Btw, just got Cassini, VoiceSynth and Grain Science and while Cassini isn't the greatest performing synth, I love the two others, thanks for mentioning them.

Too many synths?