KVR Audio

stimresp · Post by **stimresp** » Sun Mar 06, 2016 12:08 pm

I've been a good boy this year, and thought I would treat myself to a new synthesiser, and to give a little back.

Recently I've been having a lot of fun creating my own drum samples from various subtractive and FM synths. I'm well endowed in these areas already, so I'm looking to expand my options in a new direction.

Physical modelling would be an obvious choice here, and indeed Kaivo is current front runner.
I already have Bazille and Aalto, and I've also looked at Chromophone which is nice too.

I haven't been following developments recently so wondered if I had missed some other recent gems.

Preferences, though not constraints:

- Budget < 150 Euro,
- Independent developer,
- X64 compatible,
- Lots of modulation options, 'snap' for percussion,
- Compact, logical GUI once familiar,
- non-nonsense copy-protection

What would you buy?

Lejurai · Post by **Lejurai** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 6:02 pm

Chromaphone <3

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 6:29 pm

http://nusofting.liqihsynth.com/modelonia.html

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 6:35 pm

Zebra... But if you're looking at Chromaphone, that would be indeed a good buy too.

stimresp · Post by **stimresp** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 7:49 pm

Hi and thanks for the suggestions. I think I just needed a push to get Kaivo, which I did, and I'm very happy with it.

I already have Aalto so entry wasn't too bad, nevertheless I'm splashing around fairly randomly at the moment, importing samples yet still getting plenty of interesting sounds.

liquidsound · Post by **liquidsound** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 7:58 pm

ArcSyn deeeeep! And sound fantastic.
The lfo modulation are just brilliant.
A GUI variation seemed to be in the works.

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 8:49 pm

liquidsound wrote:ArcSyn deeeeep! And sound fantastic.
The lfo modulation are just brilliant.
A GUI variation seemed to be in the works.

Hope so. The current theme doesn't appeal to me. But neither do Aalto GUIs.

liquidsound · Post by **liquidsound** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 9:23 pm

fmr wrote:
liquidsound wrote:ArcSyn deeeeep! And sound fantastic.
The lfo modulation are just brilliant.
A GUI variation seemed to be in the works.
Hope so. The current theme doesn't appeal to me. But neither do Aalto GUIs.

I'm getting use to the GUI mostly because I'm getting lost in its endless sound design possibility.
But those knobs man....

Michael L · Post by **Michael L** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 9:32 pm

VariKusBrainZ wrote:http://nusofting.liqihsynth.com/modelonia.html</span>

+ 1
Totally kinky! Recent update, too.

stimresp · Post by **stimresp** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 10:46 pm

I did look at Modelonia and I liked it also. May come back to it.

Kaivo is pretty special though - the granulator and the modulation options are really interesting. It's like nothing else I've heard - it's so... alive!

spirit · Post by **spirit** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 11:50 pm

ArcSyn is excellent. Lots of fun playing with the demo (even if the constant whooshing noise is a bit over the top). But I can't buy until they implement the new GUI. Way too ugly. But definitely kinky!

Maybe also consider the TAL 101 ?

Choosing a kinky new synth...