Harmor = best additive resynthesizer?

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Tricky-Loops wrote:From what I see, Loom is completely different to Harmor, it has more a modular approach.
Hm... the unit/fx orders are also "modular" ;)

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Tricky-Loops wrote:Harmor seems to have much more features but that doesn't mean that you cannot make good compositions with Loom.
Sure BUT how to (re)create e.g. the M1 organ on Loom (without resynthesis)? In Harmor i draw 4 timbres and add a pluck, done! While the Loom guy plays the "trial and error"-game... it's the same with Razor.

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whyterabbyt wrote:
quantum7 wrote: instead all you have for all of us who are interested is, "Porsche and Ford". :dog:
Of course a VW Beetle is technically a Porsche and an AC Cobra is a Ford, so the comparison was as ill-considered as the logic of trying to prevent any discussion of using anything except Harmor for a purpose he was opposed to using Harmor for.
LOL :lol: I do like Porsche, but man, the Ford Cobra is a beast of a muscle-car. :tu:

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Wildfunk wrote:
Tricky-Loops wrote:From what I see, Loom is completely different to Harmor, it has more a modular approach.
Hm... the unit/fx orders are also "modular" ;)

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Tricky-Loops wrote:Harmor seems to have much more features but that doesn't mean that you cannot make good compositions with Loom.
Sure BUT how to (re)create e.g. the M1 organ on Loom (without resynthesis)? In Harmor i draw 4 timbres and add a pluck, done! While the Loom guy plays the "trial and error"-game... it's the same with Razor.
THANK YOU MR. WILDFUNK!!!! That's a little more along the line of where this thread should be heading. Again, I'm betting you indeed do have more knowledge than I on the matter. I would love to hear more on Harmor's synthesis technique. :tu:

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Wildfunk wrote:Sure BUT how to (re)create e.g. the M1 organ on Loom (without resynthesis)? In Harmor i draw 4 timbres and add a pluck, done! While the Loom guy plays the "trial and error"-game... it's the same with Razor.
This thread was started to talk about experimental and drone sounds via resynthesis. Since you were leaving, you might want to start a completely different thread for discussing recreating existing patches without resynthesis.
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quantum7 wrote:
Wildfunk wrote:
Tricky-Loops wrote:From what I see, Loom is completely different to Harmor, it has more a modular approach.
Hm... the unit/fx orders are also "modular" ;)

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Tricky-Loops wrote:Harmor seems to have much more features but that doesn't mean that you cannot make good compositions with Loom.
Sure BUT how to (re)create e.g. the M1 organ on Loom (without resynthesis)? In Harmor i draw 4 timbres and add a pluck, done! While the Loom guy plays the "trial and error"-game... it's the same with Razor.
THANK YOU MR. WILDFUNK!!!! That's a little more along the line of where this thread should be heading. Again, I'm betting you indeed do have more knowledge than I on the matter. I would love to hear more on Harmor's synthesis technique. :tu:
I'd like to hear more too... I am awaiting Harmor for OSX (ready, not incomplete alpha version). It seems like a very interesting synth that I wished had a Mac version since it came out.

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Wildfunk wrote:
Tricky-Loops wrote:From what I see, Loom is completely different to Harmor, it has more a modular approach.
Hm... the unit/fx orders are also "modular" ;)

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Tricky-Loops wrote:Harmor seems to have much more features but that doesn't mean that you cannot make good compositions with Loom.
Sure BUT how to (re)create e.g. the M1 organ on Loom (without resynthesis)? In Harmor i draw 4 timbres and add a pluck, done! While the Loom guy plays the "trial and error"-game... it's the same with Razor.
There is no trial and error, you have just as much control over timbres as you do in Harmor. There are also 2 dedicated organ modules.

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On a slightly OT, Harmless by Image Line- is that also worth checking out, or is it just a stripped down version of Harmor?

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quantum7 wrote:On a slightly OT, Harmless by Image Line- is that also worth checking out, or is it just a stripped down version of Harmor?
It was the predecessor of Harmor. Along the same lines but much less complex. Then before that there was Ogun (which is amazing).

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aMUSEd wrote:There is no trial and error, you have just as much control over timbres as you do in Harmor. There are also 2 dedicated organ modules.
Lol... i knew somebody would mention the organ modules ;)

But this isn't "as much control over timbres"!

What i do is build up timbres (sines) to achieve an organ I WANT.

What you do on Loom is using a premade waveform and reduce the timbres with the organ modules IN HOPE to achieve the wanted sound. Maybe you have luck, maybe not. Btw the organ was just an easy example to demonstrate the workflow. I could also start on Harmor with a saw and then remove the unwanted timbres with masks/eq.

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aMUSEd wrote:
quantum7 wrote:On a slightly OT, Harmless by Image Line- is that also worth checking out, or is it just a stripped down version of Harmor?
It was the predecessor of Harmor. Along the same lines but much less complex. Then before that there was Ogun (which is amazing).
Thanks for the info.! :) I think I'm just going to dowload demos of ALL the IL synths (I didn't realize how many they had) and see what jumps out at me. Harmor has a few great patches that will work for the New Age album I'm currently writing, so perhaps I'll find so more gems in the rest of the IL synth catalog.

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Wildfunk wrote:Lol... i knew somebody would mention the organ modules ;)

But this isn't "as much control over timbres"!

What i do is build up timbres (sines) to achieve an organ I WANT.
That's great but there might be people who prefer the easier way because they rather concentrate on composing and less on sound design...

Different strokes for different folks... :shrug:

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Wildfunk wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:There is no trial and error, you have just as much control over timbres as you do in Harmor. There are also 2 dedicated organ modules.
Lol... i knew somebody would mention the organ modules ;)

But this isn't "as much control over timbres"!

What i do is build up timbres (sines) to achieve an organ I WANT.

What you do on Loom is using a premade waveform and reduce the timbres with the organ modules IN HOPE to achieve the wanted sound. Maybe you have luck, maybe not. Btw the organ was just an easy example to demonstrate the workflow. I could also start on Harmor with a saw and then remove the unwanted timbres with masks/eq.
You don't seem to understand how Loom works. The organ modules are dedicated to organ sounds but they do not use premade waveforms, it's an additive synth, and you can also build up sounds from partials using the other modules.

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quantum7 wrote:I think I'm just going to dowload demos of ALL the IL synths (I didn't realize how many they had) and see what jumps out at me.
If you test all effects, too - see you again in 10 years! :hihi:

Seriously, Harmor is surely the best Image Line synth, cannot be compared with Toxic Biohazard or Morphine which play in the medium league...

Sakura & Ogun have very interesting flavors, too, Ogun more for rich metallic timbres and Sakura for exotic plucks...

I think something like Sawer is a bit outdated, compared with Hive and other synths...
Last edited by Tricky-Loops on Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:44 am, edited 2 times in total.

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aMUSEd wrote:
Wildfunk wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:There is no trial and error, you have just as much control over timbres as you do in Harmor. There are also 2 dedicated organ modules.
Lol... i knew somebody would mention the organ modules ;)

But this isn't "as much control over timbres"!

What i do is build up timbres (sines) to achieve an organ I WANT.

What you do on Loom is using a premade waveform and reduce the timbres with the organ modules IN HOPE to achieve the wanted sound. Maybe you have luck, maybe not. Btw the organ was just an easy example to demonstrate the workflow. I could also start on Harmor with a saw and then remove the unwanted timbres with masks/eq.
You don't seem to understand how Loom works. The organ modules are dedicated to organ sounds but they do not use premade waveforms, it's an additive synth, and you can also build up sounds from partials using the other modules.
Of course he doesn't understand, he admittedly said he never tried nor used it :lol:

Therefore his opinion on Loom is automatically disqualified.

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quantum7 wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:
quantum7 wrote:On a slightly OT, Harmless by Image Line- is that also worth checking out, or is it just a stripped down version of Harmor?
It was the predecessor of Harmor. Along the same lines but much less complex. Then before that there was Ogun (which is amazing).
Thanks for the info.! :) I think I'm just going to dowload demos of ALL the IL synths (I didn't realize how many they had) and see what jumps out at me. Harmor has a few great patches that will work for the New Age album I'm currently writing, so perhaps I'll find so more gems in the rest of the IL synth catalog.
I thought also to buy a simpler one than Harmor. It was between Harmless and Ogun. I am more now towards Ogun.

There are synths developed by GOL and others by Maxx. Harmor is done by GOL (who I think he already wrote some posts earlier in this thread). Ogun, Harmless, Harmor, Sytrus ..etc are done by GOL as well as FL Studio itself. Some nice synths done by Maxx as well like Toxic (but not all are my favourite).
It is a good idea to demo them all as you said :tu:
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