Super 8 - New polysynth by Native Instruments
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- addled muppet weed
- 111250 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
ive sat next to her on a bus.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111250 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
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- KVRAF
- 8413 posts since 4 Jul, 2012 from Alesia
I meant with Reaktor as a whole, not specifically just Super 8. Reaktor is an excellent toolbox that offers a great selection of sound mangling tools that covers a very very broad range of synthesis algorithms and DSP applications. If anything i think tools like Reaktor and Max complement great plugins like Zebra and others.
I guess it depends on what you want. If you're happy with what you have that's greatpdxindy wrote: Sat May 04, 2019 3:37 am I have so much amazing synthesis at hand, that at this point any new synth is going to have to be something exceptional or even above exceptional for me to consider it or even bother to install a demo. For me, this does not approach exceptional.
just stick with it.Super-8 sounds nice to me, i like how easy it is to use and I think it's worth getting when I want to just get a nice VA tone quickly.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111250 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
no!V0RT3X wrote: Sat May 04, 2019 4:06 pm If you're happy with what you have that's great
the ai gods will not be happy!
we must all use the one thing, to do the same thing.
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- KVRAF
- 16728 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
Sorry.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111250 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
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- KVRAF
- 16728 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
Did she smell nice?vurt wrote: Sat May 04, 2019 4:10 pmits ok.
im only a few stops from home.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111250 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
not unpleasant, certainly nicer than youd imagine.
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- KVRian
- 529 posts since 22 Sep, 2016
Just watching a couple of YouTube videos, and this is actually a very impressive VA synth that is a steal for $69. As far as I can tell, NI put a lot of effort into both the sound, and the 350 presets, which all seem very useful. I’m not saying I won’t pick this up at some point but, I probably won’t right now. I just bought the FabFilter One and Twins for a really good price, and Oberhausen like 2 weeks ago. Anybody who owns Diva or RePro (me, for example) really wouldn’t need Super 8. However, if I was just starting to look at VA synths and didn’t want to spend Diva money, I could probably get by with Super 8 for a while.
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- KVRian
- 849 posts since 11 Mar, 2010
That's a bold statement, do you think it really is on par with repro/diva? I'm still uncertain.W23 wrote: Sat May 04, 2019 4:20 pm Just watching a couple of YouTube videos, and this is actually a very impressive VA synth that is a steal for $69. As far as I can tell, NI put a lot of effort into both the sound, and the 350 presets, which all seem very useful. I’m not saying I won’t pick this up at some point but, I probably won’t right now. I just bought the FabFilter One and Twins for a really good price, and Oberhausen like 2 weeks ago. Anybody who owns Diva or RePro (me, for example) really wouldn’t need Super 8. However, if I was just starting to look at VA synths and didn’t want to spend Diva money, I could probably get by with Super 8 for a while.
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- KVRAF
- 16728 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
go on...
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- addled muppet weed
- 111250 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
maybe a little jasmine, a little patchouli.
not as swampy as you might think from appearance.
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- KVRian
- 529 posts since 22 Sep, 2016
I don’t know if it is exactly on par. I just had about 4 YouTube videos of Super 8 in the background. I’d have to download it, and I don’t plan on doing that. Diva being what it is (a Frankenstein of classic synths) covers a lot of ground, and the effects alone of RePro makes it worth the price of admission but, Super 8 is a $69 synth that sounds that good (on YouTube) and has a really straight forward interface. It does a pretty good job of making a wide variety of Poly sounds without sounding exactly like any one particular emulation. Would this have kept me from buying Diva a couple of years ago? I don’t know but, I would have put it off for a little while.Sinisterbr wrote: Sat May 04, 2019 4:44 pmThat's a bold statement, do you think it really is on par with repro/diva? I'm still uncertain.W23 wrote: Sat May 04, 2019 4:20 pm Just watching a couple of YouTube videos, and this is actually a very impressive VA synth that is a steal for $69. As far as I can tell, NI put a lot of effort into both the sound, and the 350 presets, which all seem very useful. I’m not saying I won’t pick this up at some point but, I probably won’t right now. I just bought the FabFilter One and Twins for a really good price, and Oberhausen like 2 weeks ago. Anybody who owns Diva or RePro (me, for example) really wouldn’t need Super 8. However, if I was just starting to look at VA synths and didn’t want to spend Diva money, I could probably get by with Super 8 for a while.
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- KVRist
- 176 posts since 20 May, 2014
Hmm but hang on Super 8 includes a high pass and a bandpass filter so how can this be based on a Prophet 5? The Prophet only had a low pass filter (4 pole).EvilDragon wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 2:56 pmIndeed. This harkens back to Pro-53 days (the filter in Super 8 is actually a refreshed emulation of Prophet-5 Rev 3 that's in NI offices, which was the same one used while creating Pro-53 back in the day).DJ Warmonger wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 2:20 pm A simple nice synth with clean GUI. This si something NI lacked - most of their synths are rather experiemental novelties.
So this is sort of a mix between Prophet 5 and Alpha Juno in some way (due to certain waveshapes possible in the oscillator).
That said the synth sounds rather nice actually.