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Robmobius · Post by **Robmobius** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 6:50 pm

Sounds very nice... Very reasonable price considering its sound. But I'm biased against anything retro.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 6:55 pm

We need to look to the past to see the future

Even if Phonec is sold as the BOC synth, it is lot more versatile than that, the meaty sequencer and sub osc should make it capable to rock any EDM joint

Robmobius · Post by **Robmobius** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 7:21 pm

Numanoid wrote:We need to look to the past to see the future

Even if Phonec is sold as the BOC synth, it is lot more versatile than that, the meaty sequencer and sub osc should make it capable to rock any EDM joint

It sounds great... I totally agree the sub will rock anything in the low end. I'm sure you could easily do plenty of genres with it too.

I was sure this was going to be another $99 synth. A price that I would have paid.

fluffy_little_something · Sun Mar 20, 2016 7:22 pm

Yes, it is versatile. I remember doing a punchy DX7-style synth bass in v1, which didn't even have the retrigger button, yet. I wonder what it would sound like in v2, if I had not deleted it. Is it even possible to load old patches into v2?

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 7:26 pm

Modulation section has 6 subpages:
-LFO 1, 2, 3
-HFO
-Envelopes
-Aftertouch

Such a shame that these haven't got their own dedicated window, for tweaking it is so much easier when all controls can be seen at the same time.

jack [psychicmodulation] · Sun Mar 20, 2016 8:46 pm

e-modic wrote:I really like the synth. It sounds old in a good way of course Next time you release a demo version, please just remove save presets and audio mixdown, because it was a nightmare to check out this synth with silence every 15 seconds.

Anyway, good job.

elxsound wrote:I'd have to agree about the dropouts... They are a bit much and it does make it hard to know if this is something you'll use. If it weren't for all the great demos, I probably would have passed.

I'll consider adjusting the time between dropouts.

fluffy_little_something wrote:Am I the only one that can't read the black fonts on dark orange buttons? Maybe it would have been better to invert the font color with red buttons as well, like with those blue tabs of the mod section. If the fonts were in that light beige color of the Phonec panel, contrast would be way better.

I'll fix this in the next update.

jack [psychicmodulation] · Sun Mar 20, 2016 8:53 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote:Yes, it is versatile. I remember doing a punchy DX7-style synth bass in v1, which didn't even have the retrigger button, yet. I wonder what it would sound like in v2, if I had not deleted it. Is it even possible to load old patches into v2?

It is not. Phonec 2 was rebuilt from scratch, so it's a completely separate plugin from v1.

jack [psychicmodulation] · Sun Mar 20, 2016 8:58 pm

Numanoid wrote:I'm struggling a little to understand that the filter in v2 is not less equipped than in v1, as v1 had 10 filter modes, while v2 only has 4 (plus a choice to select if Linear, Exponential or Inverted Exp), but v2 has also got dedicated knobs for LPF and HPF so I guess that makes it an improvement.

I wanted an architecture that was basically a Low pass feeding into a Highpass, so I thought it would be redundant to have band/highpass modes on the LPF. I do plan to work with the filter some more, I'm sure there's plenty of room for improvement and I'm open to suggestions.

Numanoid wrote:Modulation section has 6 subpages:
-LFO 1, 2, 3
-HFO
-Envelopes
-Aftertouch

Such a shame that these haven't got their own dedicated window, for tweaking it is so much easier when all controls can be seen at the same time.

That's where midi controllers come in handy

ere2learn · Post by **ere2learn** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 9:18 pm

Love the HFO,magical

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 9:28 pm

Having just taken possession of my shiny new Roli Seaboard RISE 49, I wish that there were more options for modulation routing. I'd like to see a bunch of modulation slots for MIDI CC mappings. Also, having a global adjustment for pitchbend range would be very helpful.

Norrin_Radd · Post by **Norrin_Radd** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 11:59 pm

Eeeeee, this aftertouch is so fun to mess with!

Great update, and the upgrade was very much appreciated. I loved the original version, but this one, especially being 64bit, will absolutely find it's way on to upcoming projects of mine!

Robmobius · Post by **Robmobius** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 12:11 am

Well I made the purchase... There's a lot of stuff inside this little box.

It's definitely got a wide sonic pallet - And I'm loving the sub osc for the bass.

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 12:11 am

Great update. I've begun a new track using Phonec2 and Construct today. Hopefully this will see the light of day sometime this year

e-modic · Post by **e-modic** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 5:31 pm

Hello Jack,
was there any modell of a hardware synth for an emulation when you developed the Filters?

david.beholder · Post by **david.beholder** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 7:06 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote: Am I the only one that can't read the black fonts on dark orange buttons? Maybe it would have been better to invert the font color with red buttons as well, like with those blue tabs of the mod section. If the fonts were in that light beige color of the Phonec panel, contrast would be way better.

Nope, you're not alone. Palette and size probably wouldn't work with 30" monitor i.e. it would be too small i.e. unreadable i.e. untweakable.

Few weeks ago in pre-release thread I've asked about GUI changes and the answer was 15 seconds of silence

Phonec 2 has been released! (Updated to v2.4)