KVR Audio

highkoo · Post by **highkoo** » Tue Jan 19, 2016 4:12 am

I just had this chain going;

Cthulhu>Cthulhu>Obscurium>Obscurium>Oatmeal

Really amazing plugin.
Obviously, not everyones cup of tulips, but it is definitely a powerful thing.
It will probably take me a decade to really control it.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 8:13 pm

So why is Obscurium (or any other SugarBytes VSTi synth) not among the best 50 plugin synths in the world today?

http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/the ... day-621799

c_voltage · Post by **c_voltage** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 8:20 pm

Numanoid wrote:So why is Obscurium (or any other SugarBytes VSTi synth) not among the best 50 plugin synths in the world today?

http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/the ... orld-today

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UncleAge · Post by **UncleAge** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 3:32 pm

c_voltage wrote:
Numanoid wrote:So why is Obscurium (or any other SugarBytes VSTi synth) not among the best 50 plugin synths in the world today?

http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/the ... orld-today
"Page not found" for some reason.

Loaded fine for me. Part of the link is missing in your reply.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 8:15 pm

OK, so we have got the link fixed, but the question still remains, even with a working link Obscurium is not among the 50 best synth plugs in the world today.

Is it all down to not advertising at Music Radar (i.e. CM/FM) ?

Ridan · Post by **Ridan** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 8:35 pm

Numanoid wrote:Is it all down to not advertising at Music Radar (i.e. CM/FM) ?

Good question. It may not be on Music Radar's top 50 but it's on my top 20.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 8:45 pm

"Regular" VA plugs like Minimonsta, Ana and Monark are plentiful in that list.

IMO plugs that think outside the box, like Obscurium, should have a place there too.

Constructed Identity · Thu Feb 18, 2016 9:51 pm

I'm curious if anyone has used ACE or Bazile inside this to control parameters.

ksandvik · Post by **ksandvik** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 10:51 pm

..sssh, do not talk about Obscurium.... It's a secret weapon of mine.

Ridan · Post by **Ridan** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 10:57 pm

What Obscurium? I don't see no Obscurium.

pssst ksandvik. I think they fell for it..

ethermusic1981 · Post by **ethermusic1981** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 10:59 pm

Numanoid wrote:So why is Obscurium (or any other SugarBytes VSTi synth) not among the best 50 plugin synths in the world today?

http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/the ... day-621799

Excellent question, Numanoid, and one that I can't answer myself.

While unfortunately I'm currently (temporarily) without any Sugar Bytes plugins in my VST folder (due to selling all of them recently for financial reasons), I love every single piece of software they've released. An extremely underappreciated developer who always seems to outdo themselves with each new release.

ethermusic1981 · Post by **ethermusic1981** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 11:00 pm

ksandvik wrote:..sssh, do not talk about Obscurium.... It's a secret weapon of mine.

JoeCat · Post by **JoeCat** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 11:16 pm

For "controlled" Obscurium fun with Live, I've been getting giggles recording a morphed loop, then slicing to midi in Live, and just playing the pieces in a drum rack. For best results, slow BPM and something with transients.

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 8:14 pm

The developer would gain yet new users if he mentioned that it is 64-bit in the KVR product page. People using the search tool for new ideas of purchase probably miss it if they use Windows 64-bit or OSX 64-bit as criteria.

Edit: I just alerted him of the lack of this mentions. He will probably add it in the next days.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Mar 26, 2016 6:44 pm

This is one difficult beast to understand, but the patches sound amazing, hopefully I will manage to make some of my own one day.

As with all Sugar Bytes plugs I have, I am amazed how they manage to cram so much into them and keep the CPU hit so low.

Playing a patch in Obscurium is like looking at a light show, but CPU hit stays below 20%

Sugar Bytes - Obscurium