Korg updates its Legacy Collection with a new Arp Odyssey emulation

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Cinebient wrote: Still i expected more compared to their mobile range.
The preset is very heavy and cpu hog! I only have 12 hyperthreads (or 6+6). If I have Ryzen 7, I believe I could have 16 instances.

Anyway, in practice I would use just one or two instances from ARP Odyssey. The other synths I have (except RePro) use very little cpu that countless instances could be added (include the other Korg Collection synths).
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EnGee wrote:
Cinebient wrote: Still i expected more compared to their mobile range.
The preset is very heavy and cpu hog! I only have 12 hyperthreads (or 6+6). If I have Ryzen 7, I believe I could have 16 instances.

Anyway, in practice I would use just one or two instances from ARP Odyssey. The other synths I have (except RePro) use very little cpu that countless instances could be added (include the other Korg Collection synths).
I will set it up with the same preset and see how many instances i can run inside Gadget on my iPhone 6S plus (which we know has a way slower cpu as the new iPads and iPhones).
So if i can go at least to the half there must be something wrong with the port.
I see this preset has 8 voice and unison. So it might has 16 on desktop?
Could you try that with 8 voices then just?

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O.k. maybe it´s not so bad then. I mean since iOS 11 i anyway get a big loss in performance sadly compared to iOS 10 and before.
I tried it within Gadget and i indeed was just able to run 5 instances of this patch (remember, it just has 8 voices here) with a buffer of 256.
With 128 it was just 4. With 512 also just 5 and with 1024 i could run 6.
Strange was that it can go to 2048 but that was even worse and i could run just 4 as well here.
So then it might be not so bad. But i mean it´s running on a "old" smartphone :)

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This is a very good result IMO. I haven't bought it for my iPad (2 mini) as I don't use the iPad for music or synthesis, so I don't know how its performance.

The desktop version of that preset is 16 voices x 16 unison. It is damn heavy! Anyway, I still don't know if the iOS version is more optimized than the desktop or not.
Using: Cubase Pro 15, Reason 13, Tascam US-4x4HR, MODX6, DM12D, LaunchKey 49, Yamaha guitar(Pacifica 612v) and bass (BB234) and some virtual instruments and synths.

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BONES wrote:You do understand that you can apply EQ and effects to boost the bottom end of anything, right? It doesn't have to be there from the start. in fact, a lot of what made old synths hard to use in their day was trying to tame the bottom end so you could fit it into a mix. But with modern digital mixers, its' easy.
That’s like saying you can get any random vocalist to sound like Barry White by applying EQ and effects to boost the bottom end.
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What about this GUI! :D

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Cinebient wrote:What about this GUI! :D

:cry: iOS only...

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I don't know why the love affair with iOS?! Really makes me mad! :mad: Bring them to the desktop damn it!
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EnGee wrote:I don't know why the love affair with iOS?! Really makes me mad! :mad: Bring them to the desktop damn it!
It might be creating GUI´s is much much more easy there.
I wouldn´t wonder if you see a lot more interesting synths in some years there.
See Moog.....i´m sure they bring more to it in the future.
They also said it´s a lot more controlled market of hard-and software.

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v1o wrote:
BONES wrote:You do understand that you can apply EQ and effects to boost the bottom end of anything, right? It doesn't have to be there from the start. in fact, a lot of what made old synths hard to use in their day was trying to tame the bottom end so you could fit it into a mix. But with modern digital mixers, its' easy.
That’s like saying you can get any random vocalist to sound like Barry White by applying EQ and effects to boost the bottom end.
He seems to miss some fundamentals, here and there...





...or he's trolling.

Add a routine that creates distortion in a select frequency in an EQ and maybe you can create what's not there, but that would still just insert noise into the signal, not reveal detail that isn't there to begin with.
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Infinite resolution...

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Jace-BeOS wrote:
v1o wrote:
BONES wrote:You do understand that you can apply EQ and effects to boost the bottom end of anything, right? It doesn't have to be there from the start. in fact, a lot of what made old synths hard to use in their day was trying to tame the bottom end so you could fit it into a mix. But with modern digital mixers, its' easy.
That’s like saying you can get any random vocalist to sound like Barry White by applying EQ and effects to boost the bottom end.
He seems to miss some fundamentals, here and there...
...or he's trolling.

Add a routine that creates distortion in a select frequency in an EQ and maybe you can create what's not there, but that would still just insert noise into the signal, not reveal detail that isn't there to begin with.
It's really not worth it. He seems to like arguing, usually in a pretty condescending way while sometimes at the same time saying nonsense like that. It's no use, best to let it go!

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Well, it's very hard not to be condescending when people are being such complete idiots. I mean, seriously, read this krap and tell me these guys aren't way off base with any or all of this.
v1o wrote:That’s like saying you can get any random vocalist to sound like Barry White by applying EQ and effects to boost the bottom end.
No, it's more like saying that if someone is doing their best to imitate Barry White and getting it 99.9% right, then I can use a bit of EQ to make it even more convincing. Because I'm not saying you can take any random softsynth and make it sound like a MiniMoog, I'm saying that if, and to me it is a very iffy if, you feel that an already excellent MiniMoog clone doesn't quite have the same bottom end oomph as the real thing, then you'll have no problem adding that extra oomph with a bit of EQ.
EnGee wrote:I don't know why the love affair with iOS?! Really makes me mad! :mad: Bring them to the desktop damn it!
It's easy - iOS has a captive audience who will pay money for any piece of garbage that you wrap in an app, which greatly increases the size of the potential market.
Jace-BeOS wrote:Add a routine that creates distortion in a select frequency in an EQ and maybe you can create what's not there, but that would still just insert noise into the signal, not reveal detail that isn't there to begin with.
All that will have been done in any emulation worth it's salt. You clearly have absolutely no idea whatsoever of the work that goes into creating something like this. The dev doesn't just find some random way of making a saw wave, they go to a lot of effort to ensure that the most minute detail of the original is faithfully recreated. e.g. The Legend has a switch on the back to emulate 50Hz or 60Hz AC current so that if you live in Europe, it will sound like a European MiniMoog, not a US one. Do you honestly think devs go to that amount of trouble, because I'll guarantee that's something you'd never have thought of, but miss some fundamental characteristic of the oscillators?
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BONES wrote:Well, it's very hard not to be condescending when people are being such complete idiots. I mean, seriously, read this krap and tell me these guys aren't way off base with any or all of this.
v1o wrote:That’s like saying you can get any random vocalist to sound like Barry White by applying EQ and effects to boost the bottom end.
No, it's more like saying that if someone is doing their best to imitate Barry White and getting it 99.9% right, then I can use a bit of EQ to make it even more convincing. Because I'm not saying you can take any random softsynth and make it sound like a MiniMoog, I'm saying that if, and to me it is a very iffy if, you feel that an already excellent MiniMoog clone doesn't quite have the same bottom end oomph as the real thing, then you'll have no problem adding that extra oomph with a bit of EQ.
EnGee wrote:I don't know why the love affair with iOS?! Really makes me mad! :mad: Bring them to the desktop damn it!
It's easy - iOS has a captive audience who will pay money for any piece of garbage that you wrap in an app, which greatly increases the size of the potential market.
Jace-BeOS wrote:Add a routine that creates distortion in a select frequency in an EQ and maybe you can create what's not there, but that would still just insert noise into the signal, not reveal detail that isn't there to begin with.
All that will have been done in any emulation worth it's salt. You clearly have absolutely no idea whatsoever of the work that goes into creating something like this. The dev doesn't just find some random way of making a saw wave, they go to a lot of effort to ensure that the most minute detail of the original is faithfully recreated. e.g. The Legend has a switch on the back to emulate 50Hz or 60Hz AC current so that if you live in Europe, it will sound like a European MiniMoog, not a US one. Do you honestly think devs go to that amount of trouble, because I'll guarantee that's something you'd never have thought of, but miss some fundamental characteristic of the oscillators?
Sorry but what you call piece of garbage wrapped in iOS apps is on par with the latest and greatest as desktop plug-ins. Just the new Moog app is better than all these more expensive plug-ins (of course just my opinion after i compared them myself).
Beware, i don´t care how accurate an emulation of one of the anyway different sounding models is but i just believe my ears.
Should i call those a lot more expensive plug-ins garbage since they can´t hold a candle to an iOS app where i even can run several instances on an old smartphone.
It might be a toy for many people but welcome to the future! :D
The Korg iOS synths sound like their deskop ports and got a better GUI on top.
Maybe desktop synths are garbage soon :D (watch out dramatized)

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BONES wrote:
Jace-BeOS wrote:Add a routine that creates distortion in a select frequency in an EQ and maybe you can create what's not there, but that would still just insert noise into the signal, not reveal detail that isn't there to begin with.
All that will have been done in any emulation worth it's salt. You clearly have absolutely no idea whatsoever of the work that goes into creating something like this. The dev doesn't just find some random way of making a saw wave, they go to a lot of effort to ensure that the most minute detail of the original is faithfully recreated. e.g. The Legend has a switch on the back to emulate 50Hz or 60Hz AC current so that if you live in Europe, it will sound like a European MiniMoog, not a US one. Do you honestly think devs go to that amount of trouble, because I'll guarantee that's something you'd never have thought of, but miss some fundamental characteristic of the oscillators?
And yet all you have to do to match some aspect of one of these amazing emulations that was so carefully modeled is just to use some EQ on some other synth that wasn't modeled as well.
I don't think you even remember which side you are arguing. but hey, as long as you're arguing then all is well, who cares if you end up contradicting your original argument right? Yer a smrt one bud.

Shit, I got drawn in by the troll right after said not to! What have I done. Couldn't help it, it was too hilarious.

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