I agree that even when i won´t buy such an expensive analog ever i think that software is not quite there if you really go mad with saturation and audio rate modulations and some other minor things. Still he doesn´t show everything and my favorite is the app by far compared to the othersTIMT wrote:chk071 wrote:No worries.Cinebient wrote: I apologize for my harsh tone......i´ve drunken too much yesterday
And, i agree of course that, in general, iOS apps can sound as good as desktop plugins. After all, there's also example of apps/plugins which have been ported to both platforms, like Waldorf Nave, and Cakewalk Z3TA. The iOS devices still have a limited processing power though, so, developers surely have to code their apps taking that into account. Nave for example is a straight digital synth, no circuit modelling or anything going on, same should apply to Z3TA. I don't know what Moog did with their Minimoog app, and, without trying it out, i also can't judge on that finally. I just can say that, for simple sounds, it is almost indistinguishable from the real thing in the sound demos, while, for more extreme sounds, the differences seem more apparent. How relevant that is to you is another thing, of course. I think for a $5 app, it sounds absolutely fantastic, of course.
Already posted this in another thread:
Same clearly obvious differences with all analog modelling regardless of developer
Attack/note onset transient is way off
Bass and low mids are weedy and "thin"sounding and no,it has nothing to do with EQ,nor would EQ rectify it.The Legend is definitely closer,but its still a bit off when it comes to the dynamics of the bottom end
Envelopes (no surprises there) are way off
Less "open"sounding.you can hear they seem to mix differently when he mixes in the saw with the square,where as when he does the same thing with the app,they sort of mush into one another making one tone with very little definition and flat and or "useless"dynamics e.g out of control beating of phase (pretty much all VSTI's suffer from that "issue")
Top end and hi mids lack animation/generallly sound uninteresting/slightly shrill(not ear wrenchingly horrible though)
Filter seems to sit on top of the sound rather than blend with it.when i played round with a Minimoog D last year i noticed that when you drive the filter into self resonance it had this almost grinding AM quality to it (my Matrix has the same sort of property despite being a different topology to that of a ladder filter)The Drop can do this for example,but it seems absent from a lot of analog models
it sounds more fat, juicy whatever it is. Especially i´m quite happy with the feedback in certain settings where all emulations suck but the app at least surprised me.
At the end it´s of course all personal preference and we all might to hear other things we like or dislike.
