Kern VSTi Preview/Demo - v 1.0.2 RELEASED

[wagtunes]

As there is a strong possibility of this being a future OSC synth, has anybody made a kick drum patch for it?

[DrewDale]

Have a great time playing with kern today, a great sounding synth. I've made 32 patches, and I like to share with you. You can find it here:

http://www.kvraudio.com/product/kern-by ... /downloads

Nice patches, cheers

[phdsg vn chfhn]

As there is a strong possibility of this being a future OSC synth, has anybody made a kick drum patch for it?

always the first thing i try

here's my starting point:

DR-kickotom.zip

[albertodream]

Since the daws I am using (Reaper and vsthost) doesn't have midi feedback, when I change a patch, the changes don't shown in my controller (Behringer BCR2000). I've notice, that some synths (NI, Synapse and Superwave) however transmits midi cc information to the controller by themselves, and the values of the cc and lights in the controller always match the program I have in the daw.
Is there any possibilities that kern have that kind of midi feedbak of the learned CCs?
It would be great.

[bailees7irish]

So why did Native Instruments launch Komplete Kontrol series?

No idea, i dont touch NI stuff.

Your loss.

[Syntilla]

Wtf is going on around here?

Let me get this straight:
vco > vcf > vca;
2 EGs that are little more than on/off switches;
and ... er ... oh, no - that's it.

And people are swapping patches?

Don't be fooled by Kern's top-of-the-range sound.
This isn't a 'player', a cut-down demo version - this is the full software.
Kern has 32 parameters.
They're all on the front panel.
Try moving a few of them, see what they do to the sound.

If the Ody or SynthiA had had presets, I would never have dared call myself a musician. (It's not as though I couldn't have got a 'proper' job.)
And Kern is the least challenging instrument I've played since the Stylophone Deluxe (that 2-stylus repeat mode took a bit of getting used to).
If you want to be spoon fed, you're going to have to take that teat out of your mouth first.

[Kriminal]

So why did Native Instruments launch Komplete Kontrol series?

No idea, i dont touch NI stuff.

Your loss.

Cant say ive noticed.

[sfd]

Wtf is going on around here?

Let me get this straight:
vco > vcf > vca;
2 EGs that are little more than on/off switches;
and ... er ... oh, no - that's it.

And people are swapping patches?

Don't be fooled by Kern's top-of-the-range sound.
This isn't a 'player', a cut-down demo version - this is the full software.
Kern has 32 parameters.
They're all on the front panel.
Try moving a few of them, see what they do to the sound.

If the Ody or SynthiA had had presets, I would never have dared call myself a musician. (It's not as though I couldn't have got a 'proper' job.)


And Kern is the least challenging instrument I've played since the Stylophone Deluxe (that 2-stylus repeat mode took a bit of getting used to).
If you want to be spoon fed, you're going to have to take that teat out of your mouth first.

Assuming somebody would never have become a musician if he only had a piano. I mean, that's only one untweakable sound.

Of course no musician would ever dream of trusting their ears. They could be fooled and thing what they hear is good. God forbid.

Thank God there was no presets n Lennon's guitar. Otherwise he would have beocme a sound designer instead.

[fluffy_little_something]

So why did Native Instruments launch Komplete Kontrol series?

No idea, i dont touch NI stuff.

Your loss.

Cant say ive noticed.

Same here, the only thing NI I have is the Kontakt player, and I dislike it so much that I never use the samples which require it.
They seem to have built their own parallel universe with Kontakt, Reaktor etc. That is not the approach I want...

[Numanoid]

Fascinatingly though Native Instruments used to have Kore hybrid vst/hardware controller

Etymologically speaking this is like a rebirth:

Kore <-> Core <-> Kern

[Shalotta]

Funny, one can learn more about synth parameters on this video than on those 2 hours tutorials
"there is a knob and when you turn it to the left, the knob goes uhm ehm to the left ..."

The free synth is kernig and I just like to say thank you.

[Numanoid]

After playing with it a couple of hours, I'm quite pleased

Layout is easy to understand and get to grips with, quickly I managed to dial in a fat fifth lead, and arp like bass lines using the LFO.

Love the low CPU usage too.

I would have loved a dedicated arp function though, and to get finished patches out of Kern, more FX than just Chorus option is needed.

[AutoMotto]

To get finished patches out of Kern, more FX than just Chorus option is needed.

I don't agree, only a few synths from the past had just chorus, (some not even that) The Jupiter 8 / Prophet 5 / Oberheim synths never had any FX and could still coax some great sounds from them. These days with DAW you can add any FX you desire into the chain. What I like about Kern is there is nothing to distract from the most important thing - Sound creation

[wagtunes]

To get finished patches out of Kern, more FX than just Chorus option is needed.

I don't agree, only a few synths from the past had just chorus, (some not even that) The Jupiter 8 / Prophet 5 / Oberheim synths never had any FX and could still coax some great sounds from them. These days with DAW you can add any FX you desire into the chain. What I like about Kern is there is nothing to distract from the most important thing - Sound creation

I agree. A synth doesn't need FX with all the FX that are available in just about any DAW available today, let alone all the free 3rd party FX available.

[layzer]

I agree. A synth doesn't need FX with all the FX that are available in just about any DAW available today, let alone all the free 3rd party FX available.

ahhh at last, something we both agree on, Wagman!