KVR Audio

Robmobius · Post by **Robmobius** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 10:09 pm

4damind wrote:Interesting synth, nice GUI, easy to understand. I don't like so much the overall sound and so it's not a synth for me. For this more digital sounding synth I would prefer Rob Papen Blue 2. This synth is IMO a lot better and is also a better playground for preset users (I don't like the Spectral presets but the Blue 2 presets are excellent).

I actually prefer Spectral... It's digital, but it's very warm at the same time. It's the best synth I've seen for pads and weird soundscapes. Love the Arp too! - Plus, I prefer the filters.

I have Blue II as well. I'd still pick Spectral over it... But it's really down to the user.

Synchanter · Post by **Synchanter** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 11:54 pm

Wasn't Rob Papen somehow involved in Spectral as well as Blue II? Not sure about the details, read about it somewhere. Both sound spectacular to me, very fresh, cutting edge sounds.

Robmobius · Post by **Robmobius** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 12:05 am

Synchanter wrote:Wasn't Rob Papen somehow involved in Spectral as well as Blue II? Not sure about the details, read about it somewhere. Both sound spectacular to me, very fresh, cutting edge sounds.

Not too to be honest...

But I agree they are both excellent.

Iris. A · Post by **Iris. A** » Wed Sep 24, 2014 3:59 pm

Synchanter wrote:Wasn't Rob Papen somehow involved in Spectral as well as Blue II? Not sure about the details, read about it somewhere. Both sound spectacular to me, very fresh, cutting edge sounds.

No, Blue II is Rob Papen, and Spectral is LinPlug. Their only collaboration was Albino. Neither has anything to do with the other anymore.

Its unfortunate really.

(<3 Albino 3)

psmacmur wrote:I used it for two OSCs and quite enjoyed it. It has a deceptive amount of depth. It has all the features I'd want in a modern VA, including a nice arp. For when that's not enough, there's the additive aspect of the oscillators and the option to define your own filter function. I found myself using it as a wavetable synth in the Dune sense: load up a couple of predefined OSC waves and morph between them.

I didn't know Spectral could do wavetable, I was thinking about buying it.....hmm

psmacmur · Post by **psmacmur** » Wed Sep 24, 2014 4:45 pm

psmacmur wrote:I used it for two OSCs and quite enjoyed it. It has a deceptive amount of depth. It has all the features I'd want in a modern VA, including a nice arp. For when that's not enough, there's the additive aspect of the oscillators and the option to define your own filter function. I found myself using it as a wavetable synth in the Dune sense: load up a couple of predefined OSC waves and morph between them.

I didn't know Spectral could do wavetable, I was thinking about buying it.....hmm[/quote]

Well, I may be misusing the term wavetable; there's probably a more technically correct term. It's certainly not wave sequencing like, say, Serum. But you get to choose two waves per OSC, and each OSC has a modulatable knob to blend between its two waves. And while you can generate your own waves using a harmonics editor, I don't recall being able to load wave files (in 1.0; haven't played with 1.1 yet). So YMMV depending what you mean by "do wavetable".

crystalmsc · Post by **crystalmsc** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 5:13 pm

just want to share the news, it's for sale until 31st Dec. Certainly one of the best modern sounding synth.

jc_vt · Post by **jc_vt** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 5:35 pm

Spectral crossfades between 2 waves, and does it nicely. Serum does the same for up to 256 waves, and has other options beyond crossfade. Both great synths, different strengths. I especially like the filter design and multiple filters option in Spectral.

psmacmur wrote:
psmacmur wrote:I used it for two OSCs and quite enjoyed it. It has a deceptive amount of depth. It has all the features I'd want in a modern VA, including a nice arp. For when that's not enough, there's the additive aspect of the oscillators and the option to define your own filter function. I found myself using it as a wavetable synth in the Dune sense: load up a couple of predefined OSC waves and morph between them.
I didn't know Spectral could do wavetable, I was thinking about buying it.....hmm

Well, I may be misusing the term wavetable; there's probably a more technically correct term. It's certainly not wave sequencing like, say, Serum. But you get to choose two waves per OSC, and each OSC has a modulatable knob to blend between its two waves. And while you can generate your own waves using a harmonics editor, I don't recall being able to load wave files (in 1.0; haven't played with 1.1 yet). So YMMV depending what you mean by "do wavetable".[/quote]

crystalmsc · Post by **crystalmsc** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:48 am

Synchanter wrote:Just discovered this KVR contest where people used Spectral to compose tracks:
https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/osc-58-spectral
The tracks are playable there.

Really nice sounds!
Somehow this synth has a very sophisticated and professional tone.

Thank you for sharing this, definitely one of the best playlist ever! Specially since it was made by using one synth only.

Xenox.AFL · Post by **Xenox.AFL** » Mon Dec 15, 2014 7:14 pm

Rob Papen wasn't involved in Spectral, LinPlug has a small team of sounddesigners were people like BigTone or me are in, this team helped Peter creating this synth, especially Nico was involved in creating this synth and he made a lot of sounds for it... Lovely sounds...!

When i tell you that i personally love spectral which probably counts not much for you because i was involved in this project but, "i love spectral...!"

I did a soundset by myself, too and this is good example to hear the electronic side of Spectral, you can take a listen if you want...

http://www.particular-sound.de/wordpres ... ces-vol-1/

http://vimeo.com/89953754

DHR53 · Post by **DHR53** » Mon Dec 15, 2014 7:36 pm

Just want to add, this synth can do some amazing sounds – checking out the new stuff available in sound libraries. I purchased the In-Visible soundbank and I was pretty like WOW. Really interesting set of great sounds that shows the capabilities of the synth to do complex unique sounds...

rustman · Post by **rustman** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:57 pm

I'm habitually late to the party. Was perusing youtube (yeah, me too!), and saw spectral. First time seeing it for me. Some kid named Stockhausen or something was using it. That guy has been costing me a lot of money lately...i should quit following him on YT.

This thing looks like what the doctor ordered (today...). Gotta go get the demo...

Nightpolymath · Post by **Nightpolymath** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:10 am

Can't go wrong with Linplug. Love all their stuff, especially Octopus.

Robmobius · Post by **Robmobius** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:34 am

Love Spectral... I prefer it to Blue II.

It's criminally underrated imo.

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:40 am

i demo'd it and was not all that impressed with the sound. and was quite put off by the high CPU usage.
i still like Albino3 over this offering any day.

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 10:00 am

It sometimes reminds me of Propellerhead's Parsec.

LinPlug Spectral - your opinions wanted