KVR Audio

hivkorn · Post by **hivkorn** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 7:01 am

Hello guy , i have recently buy a second hand license of DUNE 1 , I am amazed by the sound quality and what i can done with it.I would like to know , if I choose to upgrad to V2 , what will V2 give me more than V1 ?
Thx

kokotte · Post by **kokotte** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 7:54 am

a lot of things,
see it like a new synth(just the concept is the same)
i was a V1 user and i have never regret the update ! V2 is on another level
you can compare the manuel if you want and see the change

hivkorn · Post by **hivkorn** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 7:56 am

can we keep dune 1 when we install dune 2 ?

Ghostwave · Post by **Ghostwave** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 8:13 am

hivkorn wrote:can we keep dune 1 when we install dune 2 ?

Yes

Saukar30 · Post by **Saukar30** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 2:28 pm

Yeah, Dune 2 & Dune 1 are really different Synths. They are based on the same idea, v2 expands beyond 2. Also note you can't load v1 presets into v2.

I think they are both great to have & use simultaneously

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 2:40 pm

Better sound, better filters, more unison option, better unison, better mod matrix. Better anything really.

Not that Dune 1/CM/BE is bad, it served me for a good while here, but surely is surpassed by Dune 2, and by other recent synths.

Elektronisch · Post by **Elektronisch** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 6:37 am

Yes Dune 2 is like another synth, it has a different sound aswel. Actually for me Dune 2 surpasses every area of Dune 1.

Tho Dune 1 still has its place, not for now anymore tho, because the browsing is ancient in Dune. I wish Synapse would make the same as in Dune 2.

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 7:24 am

Dune2 has significantly expanded wavetable section. It comes with huge selection of premade wavetables, and there is an undocumented ability to import your own ones. ALso the FM engine is expanded (and sounds pretty good). Furthemore, they essentially transformed the global unison into a layering option - you now may have 8 competely independent layers.

While we are discussing Dune2, does anyone elase has the impression that Dune2 is wrongly marketed as an"EDM synth"? The demos on their site are EDM, most of the presets are EDM, they released an EDM expansion, but essentially EDM is not where Dune2 shines. At least in my experience, it cannot compete with Spire, Sylenth or Massive in making typical EDM sounds.

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 7:54 pm

recursive one wrote:
While we are discussing Dune2, does anyone elase has the impression that Dune2 is wrongly marketed as an"EDM synth"? The demos on their site are EDM, most of the presets are EDM, they released an EDM expansion, but essentially EDM is not where Dune2 shines. At least in my experience, it cannot compete with Spire, Sylenth or Massive in making typical EDM sounds.

And they've just released another EDM expansion

2ZrgE · Post by **2ZrgE** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 7:22 am

recursive one wrote: At least in my experience, it cannot compete with Spire, Sylenth or Massive in making typical EDM sounds.

What are 'typical EDM sounds'?

I'm sure that Dune2 is more than capable of all those annoying noise you can hear in every other EDM production nowadays.

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:26 am

The sounds in the vid I've posted above, are what I call "typical EDM sounds". They are pretty well crafted, but to me is feels like they are lacking some punch, or solidness, or agressivenes which I would expect from the sounds of this kind. Aslo there is something weird going on in the upper frequency range in some sounds, (especially hearable at 1:54 or 4:20). Maybe I'm nit picking, and I don't produce such kind of music and neither do I listen to it much now (but I used to), but to me this comes across as "passable" rather than "great".

And this is what I'd call "great"

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:49 am

I cannot remember about the differences to Dune1.. but Dune2 is an excellent synth.

Dune2 is IMO _the_ pad synth and this includes every style EDM/Ambient/Dance/...
For a "typical" EDM synth I see all synth which playing a bit in the Virus department (Sylenth, Spire) and having a more rough/digital sound.
Dune2 is a bit overqualified for simple pluck/EDM sounds

KingofBeers · Post by **KingofBeers** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 12:19 pm

4damind wrote:
Dune2 is a bit overqualified for simple pluck/EDM sounds

I completely agree with this!!

For me it's a beast, I use it for scoring games & TV all the time.

cheers.

fischkopf · Post by **fischkopf** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 12:37 pm

If Dune 1 and 2 are so similar and Dune 2 is really just an enhancement of Dune 1, I really wonder why they don't make Dune 2 compatible with Dune 1 presets...

Do they really want people to pay for Dune 1, just so they can use the presets that have been released for it? I think that's really lame.

cytospur · Post by **cytospur** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 12:56 pm

fischkopf wrote:If Dune 1 and 2 are so similar and Dune 2 is really just an enhancement of Dune 1, I really wonder why they don't make Dune 2 compatible with Dune 1 presets...

Do they really want people to pay for Dune 1, just so they can use the presets that have been released for it? I think that's really lame.

I'm sure you think lots of things are lame

Anyway, they are far from being so similar as you put it. We asked about backwards compatibility during beta testing. We were told that it wasn't possible. I see no reason to not believe that.

a question to DUNE 2 users...