Audio Damage releases "Basic" substractive virtual synth
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Armadillosound Armadillosound https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=311380 - KVRian
- 796 posts since 28 Aug, 2013
It does look nice
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- KVRAF
- 12194 posts since 7 Sep, 2006 from Roseville, CA
It really does - almost Valhalla-ish. Gotta say, I'm intrigued by this synth. It's got all the basics that I would use for most analog-ish synth patches and a very intuitive layout - quick and easy to navigate, then feed it into some FX plugins. At that price, I might pick it up if it sounds as good as it looks.Armadillosound wrote:It does look nice
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- KVRAF
- 2065 posts since 14 Sep, 2004 from $HOME
Nice concept. I find it more interesting than something like Bazille which I find really intimidating. But then I am no sound designer who likes to tweak knobs for hours, what I need from a synth is get a sound fast for a specific requirement in a song. At first glance, the GUI on this seems a bit overwhelming, but on second it makes sense.
I am even more interested in Phosphor though as for subtractive sounds Diva and Zebra are enough for me, from the demo video the additive synthesis sounds cool and seems easy to handle. I know I could do additive in Zebra too, but the reduced control set speaks to me. Does anyone here have Zebra and Phosphor an can tell me how they compare, especially workflow-wise? As always, there's no demo with AD.
But: no copy protection. Cool!
I am even more interested in Phosphor though as for subtractive sounds Diva and Zebra are enough for me, from the demo video the additive synthesis sounds cool and seems easy to handle. I know I could do additive in Zebra too, but the reduced control set speaks to me. Does anyone here have Zebra and Phosphor an can tell me how they compare, especially workflow-wise? As always, there's no demo with AD.
But: no copy protection. Cool!
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- KVRAF
- 3878 posts since 28 Jun, 2009 from Wherever I lay my hat
The selling points of Phosphor, to me, are its simplicity and its sound, which is actually rather special. It sounds "old" in a very digital kind of way, gloriously imperfect. As always where synths are concerned, you can get "close" to the Phosphor sound with Zebra, but you won't nail it 100%, and only you can decide whether the difference is worth it. There's no "demo", but there's a money back guarantee that works, which is much better than those truncated synth demos that annoy you with blasts of noise or "Thank you for trying this demo" voice overs. So try it!
Phosphor has become a necessity for me, one of the few never-sell-synths, which came as a total surprise. I was expecting it to be gimmicky, something to be picked up on a whim and rarely used, but it turned out to be a mainstay. It always looks (sounds) pretty sharp in any context.
I'm not expecting much from Basic, but I would be delighted if it managed to surprise me as Phosphor did.
Phosphor has become a necessity for me, one of the few never-sell-synths, which came as a total surprise. I was expecting it to be gimmicky, something to be picked up on a whim and rarely used, but it turned out to be a mainstay. It always looks (sounds) pretty sharp in any context.
I'm not expecting much from Basic, but I would be delighted if it managed to surprise me as Phosphor did.
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- KVRAF
- 5223 posts since 20 Jul, 2010
Personally I think PWM should be on the itinerary of any educational synth. Sure you can fake it with sync and dipping the slave pitch below the master, but that seems a bit complex for newbies to understand. Discovering PWM is the first time that synthesis really "came alive" for me, and a lot of others have said the same thing.
There is another educational synth, but it's off the beaten track - it's free and called Clearsynth, it's by xoxos. All of it's presets introduced the features of the synth one by one, and then went on to showcase sounds using multiple features at once, and then finally tricks you can do that would be less obvious to a beginner. It's GUI is a bit bright and lacking in contrast, but it helped me a bit when I was learning synthesis from scratch. It even made it into a couple of my old tracks. I have fond memories of making crappy sounds on that and the A1 synth that came with Cubase as I honed my skills.
I suspect the AD synth will have a unique character all of it's own, though. Phosphor is indeed vintage digital in the best possible way. I'm looking forwards to hearing how Basic sounds.
There is another educational synth, but it's off the beaten track - it's free and called Clearsynth, it's by xoxos. All of it's presets introduced the features of the synth one by one, and then went on to showcase sounds using multiple features at once, and then finally tricks you can do that would be less obvious to a beginner. It's GUI is a bit bright and lacking in contrast, but it helped me a bit when I was learning synthesis from scratch. It even made it into a couple of my old tracks. I have fond memories of making crappy sounds on that and the A1 synth that came with Cubase as I honed my skills.
I suspect the AD synth will have a unique character all of it's own, though. Phosphor is indeed vintage digital in the best possible way. I'm looking forwards to hearing how Basic sounds.
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- KVRAF
- 2973 posts since 18 Oct, 2004
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- KVRAF
- 7872 posts since 21 Dec, 2002 from MD USA
Can't wait to demo it!!! Oh wait...
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- KVRist
- 217 posts since 4 Jan, 2013
Maybe no demo.
And now this is out.
And now this is out.
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- KVRist
- 439 posts since 7 Mar, 2011 from Pleasanton, CA
I thought of Basic as the anti-Bazille too. I was intimidated by Bazille too, but then I watched the groove3 tutorial. It's really good; check it out if you can.fese wrote:Nice concept. I find it more interesting than something like Bazille which I find really intimidating.
@ Ariston: really nice story about Phosphor; thanks for that!
@ Sendy: Neat story! Syntorial is my Clearsynth. His preset-based tutorial progression sounds great. I wish Xoxos made stuff for Mac; I really feel like I'm missing out. But not enough to give up my Mac
I'm looking forward to hearing this lovely Basic synth. AD is one of my fave devs.
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thecontrolcentre thecontrolcentre https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=76240 - KVRAF
- 37262 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from Scottish Borders
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fluffy_little_something fluffy_little_something https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=281847
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- 12880 posts since 5 Jun, 2012
Maybe PWM is hidden in the modulation matrix 
I don't know how big the GUI is, but the gray on black might be difficult to read.
And monophonic? Really? I never get the point of that. Every polyphonic synth has a mono button. If Basic sounded great, I would be pissed I can't play chords on it.
I don't know how big the GUI is, but the gray on black might be difficult to read.
And monophonic? Really? I never get the point of that. Every polyphonic synth has a mono button. If Basic sounded great, I would be pissed I can't play chords on it.
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fluffy_little_something fluffy_little_something https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=281847
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- 12880 posts since 5 Jun, 2012
Never mind, my girlfriend got it every month, and it ain't no fun, anywayBDeep wrote:Nah, it uses single cycle waveforms (according to the manual), so I guess that explains the lack of PWM.
