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crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 9:59 pm

V'ger wrote:I thought you had gone for Scanned Synth CM as it seems to be the most basic beside CM 303..., but maybe too limiting although very good sounding too.

For me Synthmaster CM sounds incredible and I like the GUI a lot too now, but quite tricky to make the drum sounds compared to Dune CM.

I went for CM101 exactly because making drum sounds with it is not easy. There are several patches for kicks available, but little else. Making a snare sound without a noise generator is a serious challenge (but I tackled that... somewhat

).

Third Floor · Post by **Third Floor** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 3:36 pm

Hmmm ..

I'm going to have to participate as well, methinks. Hopefully with more luck than last time.

Pity I've woken up so late, there's not a lot of time left .. and I don't know these synths at all.

Best get creative. Quick !

bjporter · Post by **bjporter** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 3:39 pm

Third Floor wrote:Hmmm ..

I'm going to have to participate as well, methinks. Hopefully with more luck than last time.

Pity I've woken up so late, there's not a lot of time left .. and I don't know these synths at all.

Best get creative. Quick !

Don't worry, after a few more OSC, you'll be able to recognize and use 70%+ of most synths within a minute, since most of them have very similar concepts.

Good luck

liquidgreg · Post by **liquidgreg** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 4:55 am

Can we use alchemy on this contest?

idfpower · Post by **idfpower** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 9:06 am

Why, you're going for round 3?

You've already submitted 2 tracks... I think the rules allow just 1 song per entrant

nitrowheels · Post by **nitrowheels** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 9:35 am

https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/rules

"Max 1 submission per entrant (person or team)"

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:11 pm

liquidgreg wrote:Can we use alchemy on this contest?

I don't think so, as it doesn't only use single-cycle waveforms, unless I am mistaken.

loft_electronics · Post by **loft_electronics** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 4:26 pm

I thought this would be a good time to finally check out SynthMaster - and I thought it was really, really good. But last night a few of my presets had gone weird - a snare (that took me ages) had turned into a fizzy dink instead. I reloaded the song... still a fizzy dink. I take it that's not normal? This turned out to be quite useful though, as it gave me a moment to realise that I was quite pleased to give up the whole project and start again with Aalto synth, which I've also had on my list for a while - and it's suddenly my favourite synth ever. Until next week.

bjporter · Post by **bjporter** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 4:31 pm

loft_electronics wrote:I thought this would be a good time to finally check out SynthMaster - and I thought it was really, really good. But last night a few of my presets had gone weird - a snare (that took me ages) had turned into a fizzy dink instead. I reloaded the song... still a fizzy dink. I take it that's not normal? This turned out to be quite useful though, as it gave me a moment to realise that I was quite pleased to give up the whole project and start again with Aalto synth, which I've also had on my list for a while - and it's suddenly my favourite synth ever. Until next week.

Are you using Renoise?

z.prime · Post by **z.prime** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 4:31 pm

loft_electronics wrote:This turned out to be quite useful though, as it gave me a moment to realise that I was quite pleased to give up the whole project and start again with Aalto synth, which I've also had on my list for a while - and it's suddenly my favourite synth ever. Until next week.

Yep, Aalto is a really good synth. My only qualm is high CPU use when notes aren't sounding... limits the number of instances you can use.
And Synthmaster is a really good synth, too. Sorry to hear about your patch funkiness, I've not had those problems, personally.

idfpower · Post by **idfpower** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:00 pm

TBH for me Synthmaster CM was a big letdown: very unstable, issues with the presets and settings, etc (in FL Studio 9). The BE version seemed way more reliable (and I've also liked a lot more the sound - closer to the older Synthmaster).

kaiyoti · Post by **kaiyoti** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:05 pm

idfpower wrote:TBH for me Synthmaster CM was a big letdown: very unstable, issues with the presets and settings, etc (in FL Studio 9). The BE version seemed way more reliable (and I've also liked a lot more the sound - closer to the older Synthmaster).

My thoughts exactly, I tried it awhile back and it crashed on my Cubase SX 2 a few times so I gave up. I've switched over to Reaper now so I might see if it works better this time around.

loft_electronics · Post by **loft_electronics** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 6:57 pm

bjporter wrote: Are you using Renoise?

Yes! Why?

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 7:24 pm

kaiyoti wrote:
idfpower wrote:TBH for me Synthmaster CM was a big letdown: very unstable, issues with the presets and settings, etc (in FL Studio 9). The BE version seemed way more reliable (and I've also liked a lot more the sound - closer to the older Synthmaster).
My thoughts exactly, I tried it awhile back and it crashed on my Cubase SX 2 a few times so I gave up. I've switched over to Reaper now so I might see if it works better this time around.

Try the 32bit version it should be better.

idfpower · Post by **idfpower** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 8:31 pm

kv331 wrote:Try the 32bit version it should be better.

That's the problem: I'm on 32 bit...

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