Synapse Audio Minimoog emulation "The Legend" for VST/AU and RE released!

[chk071]

How much lighter in terms of CPU is Legend compared to Monark?

Much lighter IMO. But, you can check it out yourself, both feature quite unrestrictive demo versions. Legend obviously features a clever way of saving CPU:

The key idea in The Legend is to process large parts of the voices, in particular the CPU-demanding VCF and VCA, entirely in parallel using SSE. Since SSE does 4 things in parallel, this means 4 voices poly or unison can be computed in parallel. Note that this is a different concept from developers using SSE to speed up this or that portion of the code. What we do is to run just one large circuit simulation, which then returns the outputs of 4 voices simultaneously. This all happens on a single CPU core, so you fully benefit from your other cores still (e.g. if you run many instances of The Legend).

[Aryaroman]

How much lighter in terms of CPU is Legend compared to Monark?

Much lighter IMO. But, you can check it out yourself, both feature quite unrestrictive demo versions. Legend obviously features a clever way of saving CPU:

The key idea in The Legend is to process large parts of the voices, in particular the CPU-demanding VCF and VCA, entirely in parallel using SSE. Since SSE does 4 things in parallel, this means 4 voices poly or unison can be computed in parallel. Note that this is a different concept from developers using SSE to speed up this or that portion of the code. What we do is to run just one large circuit simulation, which then returns the outputs of 4 voices simultaneously. This all happens on a single CPU core, so you fully benefit from your other cores still (e.g. if you run many instances of The Legend).

Thanx!

[Mogular]

I'm missing something here with glide. Is there any way to get The Legend to only glide when notes are played legato?
I have played with the retrig switches but a glide is always audible whether the notes are played legato or staccato.

[2ZrgE]

I've been putting BlueArp and Kirnu in front of The Legend with great success but I'll agree that a built in Arp would be nice in a future version so the settings could be saved in the patch.

If you really like the sound of The Legend I wouldn't let the lack of a built in Arp stop you from buying it since there are great free Arps available that are much more feature rich than a built in Arp would likely be....

That's what I do when the synth lacks an arp (Ableton has an built-in midi effect for that) , but I always prefer arps/seqs - it is much more fun to play around with 3rd party presets when there is good arp stuff others came up with.

Well I'll wait,maybe an arp is on their list...

[electro]

I've been putting BlueArp and Kirnu in front of The Legend with great success but I'll agree that a built in Arp would be nice in a future version so the settings could be saved in the patch.

If you really like the sound of The Legend I wouldn't let the lack of a built in Arp stop you from buying it since there are great free Arps available that are much more feature rich than a built in Arp would likely be....

Ridiculous
1.What on Earth does an Arp have to do with modelling a Minimoog?
2.What is stopping a DAW or a 3rd party VST from arpeggiating Legend for you?

[Teksonik]

I've been putting BlueArp and Kirnu in front of The Legend with great success but I'll agree that a built in Arp would be nice in a future version so the settings could be saved in the patch.

If you really like the sound of The Legend I wouldn't let the lack of a built in Arp stop you from buying it since there are great free Arps available that are much more feature rich than a built in Arp would likely be....

Ridiculous
1.What on Earth does an Arp have to do with modelling a Minimoog?
2.What is stopping a DAW or a 3rd party VST from arpeggiating Legend for you?

3. Why are you arguing with me ?

Perhaps you've quoted the wrong post ? Or perhaps you failed to properly comprehend my post ?

[1wob2many]

Why are you arguing with me ?

Because this is KVR.

[Chris-S]

Is there any way to get The Legend to only glide when notes are played legato?
I have played with the retrig switches but a glide is always audible whether the notes are played legato or staccato.

I think, this is how it worked in the original hardware.

Nevertheless, in Monark there is an option for auto-glide (portamento only when playing legato notes).

[2ZrgE]

I've been putting BlueArp and Kirnu in front of The Legend with great success but I'll agree that a built in Arp would be nice in a future version so the settings could be saved in the patch.

If you really like the sound of The Legend I wouldn't let the lack of a built in Arp stop you from buying it since there are great free Arps available that are much more feature rich than a built in Arp would likely be....

Ridiculous
1.What on Earth does an Arp have to do with modelling a Minimoog?
2.What is stopping a DAW or a 3rd party VST from arpeggiating Legend for you?

Dude you haven't even read (or haven't understood) the post above yours?

Alright, then when modelling a famous hardware synth from the past, it's not allowed whatsoever to implement any feature which wasn't in the original. Let's call that "electro's law".

So Synapse did a big mistake when implementing delay/reverb - how could they?

Now tell us about 'ridiculous'.

[AnX]

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[Richard_Synapse]

I'm missing something here with glide. Is there any way to get The Legend to only glide when notes are played legato?
I have played with the retrig switches but a glide is always audible whether the notes are played legato or staccato.

Simply set the Glide knob to zero (on the front panel in the top left corner).

Richard

[electro]

I've been putting BlueArp and Kirnu in front of The Legend with great success but I'll agree that a built in Arp would be nice in a future version so the settings could be saved in the patch.

If you really like the sound of The Legend I wouldn't let the lack of a built in Arp stop you from buying it since there are great free Arps available that are much more feature rich than a built in Arp would likely be....

Ridiculous
1.What on Earth does an Arp have to do with modelling a Minimoog?
2.What is stopping a DAW or a 3rd party VST from arpeggiating Legend for you?

Dude you haven't even read (or haven't understood) the post above yours?

Alright, then when modelling a famous hardware synth from the past, it's not allowed whatsoever to implement any feature which wasn't in the original. Let's call that "electro's law".

So Synapse did a big mistake when implementing delay/reverb - how could they?

Now tell us about 'ridiculous'.

I think there are too many requests for synths be able to do everything. Even the new IK MODO PM Synth shouldn't have built in FX to take attention away from perfecting the guitar model. The point of a VST Host is that you combine virtual FX any way you like. I disagree that synths need to include their own FX, especially synths intended to emulate synths that didn't have any. The first thing I do on a synth like Legend is to disable Reverb and polyphony.

[EvilDragon]

I'm missing something here with glide. Is there any way to get The Legend to only glide when notes are played legato?
I have played with the retrig switches but a glide is always audible whether the notes are played legato or staccato.

Simply set the Glide knob to zero (on the front panel in the top left corner).

Richard

I think Mogular means something else. He's talking about glide only working on legato played notes, instead of all the time (which is how it works on Mini by default). So, setting glide time to zero is kinda against the point here, no? He WANTS to have some glide applied, but only when he plays legato...

[Chris-S]

Yes, this is called auto-glide. Monark can do it, Legend can't IMO.

[EvilDragon]

Yup, that.