Audio Damage Continua

[dayjob]

i like the sound. it has a nice top end to it and i like the tones at the upper octave range. nice FM and morphing waveshapes. the GUI is excellent and the pop up modulation window is really great. i find it very fast to edit and it feels like using an instrument and not just a set of parameters.

it's a nice synth.

[Robmobius]

Sounds nice... Like the GUI.

But I've a lot of synths already.

[zerocrossing]

I just downloaded the demo, but I can't figure out several things

- Where do I change the OSCs waveforms??

They morph into each other using the Shape control - the ring around the waveform display.

For the filter, unless there's a control I've missed, run them in parallel and set the F2 output level to zero.

I see, so basically it's not a wavetable synth as I've thought. It's a VA morphing synth

About the 2nd filter, I'd like to turn it off to save CPU but, if you're right, that's not possible

Yeah... without wavetables or something more interesting than basic analog style waveforms, I don’t see all that much point in this one. Sounds like a synthesizer, but nothing I’ve not really heard before 100 times or more.

[perpetual3]

Is the point the continuous morphing? From what I understand, you make a smooth continuos morph of a waveform/filter/etc, rather than oscillate between two points?

[Tj Shredder]

Yeah... without wavetables or something more interesting than basic analog style waveforms, I don’t see all that much point in this one. Sounds like a synthesizer, but nothing I’ve not really heard before 100 times or more.

There are enough wavetables out there, the waveform mangling is much easier to control and better suited for expressive MPE playing. In the way they implemented it, it is even new...
I always found mangling the waveform is creating way more natural sounding timbres than filters.
This is a welcome addition to our choices...

[perpetual3]

I’m going to give it a demo.

[Vortifex]

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[wakax]

out now for iOS too!
https://apps.apple.com/app/id1487732556

[gentleclockdivider]

Pretty lame filter , especially when resonance is cranked up
Sounds like a first gen vst ( sort off )
Talmod blows it out of the water ( soundwise )

[wakax]

playing now with it
the interface is amazing and the modulation possibilities are rabbithole deep...
one could go for clean to dirty as hell sound and have a lots of fun:) the presets dont make it justice.
I encourage ppl to check the (full) demo before reading others oppinions !!!

[gentleclockdivider]

I did and imho it's just a mediocre sounding synth and way to expensive for what it offers ( compared to the competeition )
Weak filters , slow lfo's .. the amount of modulation sources and pretty gui won't change that .

They make nice stuff , but for analogue modelling synths , Audio damage is not the company I would turn to

Just my 2 cents

[grandmasterbird]

Double post

[grandmasterbird]

The audio demos sound great IMO.

Clearly it's not a cutting edge 200 dollar analog emulation, on the surface it seems to be a different take on things. The intro price looks fair to me.

Going to demo it for sure.

[Sinisterbr]

I forgot about Super8! Another direct competitor.

What I don't get is why AD thinks that's good enough at this day and age (for this price). Aparently they don't care too much about making their synths to stand out. Phosphor 2 could be a great simple FM synth, but also falls short in several things.

[Tj Shredder]

Phosphor is a VD synth emulating a rare historic instrument. On the other hand I have now all AD synths, but only on my iPad. Seems sufficient and reasonably priced for sure...
In the end the oscillators are not that different to the Grid ones in Bitwig...