KVR Audio

Nielzie · Post by **Nielzie** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 2:41 pm

W23 wrote:So, if the CUP load is on par with Diva, how does the sound compare? $44 US doesn't sound like a bad price at all.

Exactly like this

simmo75 · Post by **simmo75** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 2:44 pm

raysaul wrote:
W23 wrote:So, if the CUP load is on par with Diva, how does the sound compare? $44 US doesn't sound like a bad price at all.
The sound is excellent, workflow - not so much.
YMMV

I bought this yesterday, it sounds lovely! Really lush. If this gets brought up to date with a nice GUI, proper installer etc then this could easily give the top analogue emulations a run for there money. Workflow needs improvement.

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 2:45 pm

Nielzie wrote:
W23 wrote:So, if the CUP load is on par with Diva, how does the sound compare? $44 US doesn't sound like a bad price at all.
Exactly like this

Such an awesome lush and fat analogue sound in this video, you will never get anything like that from a VSTi

.... oh wait

Sorry, couldn't resist

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 2:57 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote:
Numanoid wrote:Next month, it is 10 years since Poly-Ana v1.0 was released: http://www.kvraudio.com/news/admiral_qu ... _v1_0_7046
Ah, OK, the official release was only in 2007, but lots of earlier beta versions and release candidates.
Officially Sylenth1 was released half a year earlier in September 2006.

It took almost a year from this thread was started, until v1.0 got released, so he spent some time on the beta version.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:08 pm

How imminent is Poly-Ana v2. According to the webpage it is that is being sold?:

About : Poly-Ana 1.21
Download : Poly-Ana 1.21 OS X 32 and 64 bit AU and VST. 44.3 MB
Download : Poly-Ana 1.21 Windows 32 and 64 bit VST. 36.3 MB
Download : RECOMMENDED: Poly-Ana 1.30 Beta 7 OS X 32 and 64 bit AU and VST. 51.6 MB
Download : RECOMMENDED: Poly-Ana 1.30 Beta 7 Windows 32 and 64 bit VST. 44.7 MB

Authorize : Poly-Ana 2.x regular $179.95 75% off until March 31, 2017! $44.99 USD

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:38 pm

There's no question the synth sounds excellent. One of the best out there. But that GUI, for me, is a train wreck. I simply cannot work with it. That's the only reason I haven't gotten it to now.

However, at $44, even if I just use it as a preset machine, it might be worth it.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:43 pm

As far as v2 is concerned, it is not yet released ...

I'm interested in buying one of your products, but I'm afraid the next version will come out soon and I'll have to pay for an upgrade.

No worries! Admiral Quality now has a new Update Protection Policy (which applies to all our existing licence holders as well as our new customers). When you purchase a license for any of our products, your licence not only covers the current major version number, but also the next major version number as well, so it's always the right time to buy. And our major version numbers, so far, have lasted for a very long time (with frequent, free updates within that major version). After 10 years in business we're still on version 1.x of all our products! That's not because they haven't been maintained and updated (just take a look at how much Poly-Ana has grown over the years). Rather, it's because we're not interested in charging our existing customers again for upgrades. We're much more interested in reaching new customers and a big part of that is keeping our existing licensees satisfied and without regrets over their purchases.

@wagtunes Did you try the alternative skins for Poly-Ana?

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:45 pm

nicksohn wrote:But it is very cpu-hungry like diva.

Copy that.

Just tried the demo, and the latest beta is on par with and above ACE in CPU usage on my system.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:49 pm

thecontrolcentre wrote:As far as v2 is concerned, it is not yet released ...

I'm interested in buying one of your products, but I'm afraid the next version will come out soon and I'll have to pay for an upgrade.

No worries! Admiral Quality now has a new Update Protection Policy (which applies to all our existing licence holders as well as our new customers). When you purchase a license for any of our products, your licence not only covers the current major version number, but also the next major version number as well, so it's always the right time to buy. And our major version numbers, so far, have lasted for a very long time (with frequent, free updates within that major version). After 10 years in business we're still on version 1.x of all our products! That's not because they haven't been maintained and updated (just take a look at how much Poly-Ana has grown over the years). Rather, it's because we're not interested in charging our existing customers again for upgrades. We're much more interested in reaching new customers and a big part of that is keeping our existing licensees satisfied and without regrets over their purchases.
@wagtunes Did you try the alternative skins for Poly-Ana?

I tried one a very long time ago and it wasn't much better.

The problem is the whole thing is one screen and the controls are just too small for me even though the GUI itself was fairly large, if I remember correctly. It's been at least a year or two so my memory is vague on this other than it was simply not fun to try to program, which is a shame because the sound of this thing is as close to a hardware analog from the 70s as I've heard.

Here's a demo that really shows off some great sounds. The song at the end doesn't do it justice but the individual sounds throughout the video are amazing, especially the low end ones. The filters sound great. If somebody told me this was hardware, I'd believe them.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:51 pm

wagtunes wrote:However, at $44, even if I just use it as a preset machine, it might be worth it.

Then lil'Poly-Ana is even cheaper, just $24 until end March:
http://www.admiralquality.com/products/LilPoly-Ana/

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:51 pm

simmo75 wrote:If this gets brought up to date with a nice GUI

That is the 'nice' GUI. With AQ, disagreement with that opinion is not an option.

nusound mind · Post by **nusound mind** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:58 pm

I don't find the cpu hit bad at all if you adjust things. Anti-aliasing really helps, or turn down sound quality to 192, oversampling, polyphony, etc. Not as high quality obvs., but still sounds decent enough imo even then.

Honestly I think the 3 new gui's are fine, esp. compared to that original one. That first one looks brutal. jmo

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 4:04 pm

whyterabbyt wrote:
simmo75 wrote:If this gets brought up to date with a nice GUI
That is the 'nice' GUI. With AQ, disagreement with that opinion is not an option.

There are a few different skins these days ... I like this one.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 4:08 pm

thecontrolcentre wrote:
whyterabbyt wrote:
simmo75 wrote:If this gets brought up to date with a nice GUI
That is the 'nice' GUI. With AQ, disagreement with that opinion is not an option.
There are a few different skins these days ... I like this one.

The skins are not the problem. At least not for me. The problem is, for the number of controls on the screen, the GUI itself needs to be MUCH larger. Each individual control is too small for me to read the descriptions. If the GUI could be resized to at least 200%, I'd deal with having to move it around the screen in order to work with it. But as long as everything is on one screen, no GUI made by the biggest genius on the planet is going to make these controls readable for me.

Absolute shame for such a great sounding synth.

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 4:39 pm

wagtunes wrote:the GUI itself needs to be MUCH larger. Each individual control is too small for me to read the descriptions

You just need to get a better monitor so you don't have to complain about every synth's GUI being hard to read.

Poly-Ana's GUI is perfectly functional here and it's a ton of fun to program.

Poly-Ana: Coming soon from Admiral Quality.