Synapse Audio OBSESSION is now available!

[Teksonik]

It's not on the main LFO area, but on the modulation panel (to the left of the keys). Look at page 16 in the manual that explains how to switch between sine and sawtooth wave by pushing in or pulling out the rate knob.

Ok I see it now.

[rezoneight]

Totally unrelated to the sound, but I appreciate that the synth is $99 after taxes, not before. Not sure how it works in Europe but here in the US its pretty standard to say the cost is $99 only to find out that of course it really isn't because taxes are then added on. So kudos on this, not something I see very often.

In Australia it is against the law to advertise a price that doesn't include all taxes and other charges. I've always found it amusing that the US trusts greedy corporations more than it trusts the government it elects.

It has nothing to do with either honestly, its just the way it works here. Companies want whatever they want and you pay it if you want the product. You then pay the government its share on whatever the company wants to charge. There are some cases like gasoline where what you see is what you pay but they're few and far between. Would certainly make it easier for the consumer if we knew the upfront cost including taxes on everything but thats just not how it works.

[Arashi]

if it sounds as good as their "legend" plugin its more or less a no brainer for oberheim hunters. paranoid hunters just wait for a starsky carr test on youtube ;D

…where he compares it to an OB-6, for some reason.

[Arashi]

Great synth! Here's hoping for a CS-80 clone next.

I really, really want someone to step up to the plate and do this properly. I have both the Arturia and Memorymoon emulations and neither one of them is even remotely satisfying. They sound kinda like a CS-80 but the character is just not there.

[Arashi]

Seems negligible to me, but I only run one or two instances on return channels anyway. I don’t insert it in every track.

I'm the same and, as I said, it will depend on the settings you choose. I have seen my CPU use almost halve, in a project with half-a-dozen instruments playing, just by removing it from a Send channel. i.e. From 25% down to around 14%. And it doesn't sound any better than the Diffuse Delay in Orion, which is modelled off some fancy Lexicon unit and uses almost zero CPU. I don't have anything in Cubase that is quite as good but I do have plenty that get the job done to a high enough standard without the CPU penalty.

I must be using it with none of the expensive features turned on. Removing it (even while tracks are sending audio to it) has no noticeable effect on my reported CPU usage. I thought Ableton Live might be masking it because of the way it reports CPU usage, so I brought in the floating CPU Usage window from Activity Monitor, and — while that just shows segmented graphs and not numbers — I don't see any real difference when I remove Replika XT.

I'm not using the world's most powerful computer…it's a late 2015 iMac 5K with the best CPU and GPU options available at the time. I definitely have to watch my CPU usage, so I'll keep an eye out for that.

[Sound Author]

I'm just curious to know why the cutoff knob doesn't open the filter up all the way when the filter envelope amount is turned all the way down. Was that an aspect of the original OB-Xa that was emulated? I never owned or used them.

[Arashi]

I'm just curious to know why the cutoff knob doesn't open the filter up all the way when the filter envelope amount is turned all the way down. Was that an aspect of the original OB-Xa that was emulated? I never owned or used them.

Yes, apparently that's how the original works. Arturia mentioned somewhere that they modeled this same behavior.

[revvy]

I'm just curious to know why the cutoff knob doesn't open the filter up all the way when the filter envelope amount is turned all the way down. Was that an aspect of the original OB-Xa that was emulated? I never owned or used them.

Yes, apparently that's how the original works. Arturia mentioned somewhere that they modeled this same behavior.

Synapse also mention it in the manual

[Sound Author]

I'm just curious to know why the cutoff knob doesn't open the filter up all the way when the filter envelope amount is turned all the way down. Was that an aspect of the original OB-Xa that was emulated? I never owned or used them.

Yes, apparently that's how the original works. Arturia mentioned somewhere that they modeled this same behavior.

Synapse also mention it in the manual

Ah, yes, I see that now on page 17. Makes sense I guess. People are going to want to be able to do a side by side comparison with the original hardware...and we can always just use a constant in the mod matrix to open it up. Fair enough.

[smellypants]

I didn't love the gui on this when I first saw it but its growing on me...

Maybe the low res image we all saw first swayed my opinion.

Any of the other beta testers want to upload their presets that didn't make the factory bank like our boy Ingo... It would be much appreciated!

[Sound Author]

You can lock the front panel controls, but it would be really cool if we could also lock hidden parameters within the Voice Adjustment Edit Section so we can Randomise Voice Adjustments without effecting those controls...or maybe just extend the locking function to those hidden parameters so we don't have to fiddle around inside the VAE Section so much.

[Ingonator]

I'm just curious to know why the cutoff knob doesn't open the filter up all the way when the filter envelope amount is turned all the way down. Was that an aspect of the original OB-Xa that was emulated? I never owned or used them.

As i mentioned earlier you can extend the cutoff range by assigning a "Const" mod source to the Cutoff destination (when the knob at the main GUI is set to maximum or minimum).

[BONES]

Any of the other beta testers want to upload their presets that didn't make the factory bank like our boy Ingo... It would be much appreciated!

Anx pulled all his presets from the factory bank so I assume he will offer them up at some stage. Some of them are excellent. I've got a few but not really enough to worry about and likely not of a style that you would want to use anyway. eXode had some nice patches that didn't seem to make the factory bank so maybe he might make those available? Or you could make your own, it's not difficult.

[Ingonator]

Little demo

Nice video.

A good demonstration of the "showcase" presets in the factory presets root folder.

[Captain]

Bought, loving it!

One thing about the chorus is that it adds a weird phase inversion between L & R channels. Just set the chorus to 100% wet, ensemble off, sum the plugin output to mono, and lot of the sound disappears. Alone this is not necessarily bad and can widen the sound nicely, but after the reverb, it makes the reverb tail strange and phase-y. When I first fired up the plugin and hit the first chord with the startup patch, my immediate reaction was that I have not inserted my headphone jack fully, which sometimes causes this werd out-of-phase sound. I had to check with another plugin to make sure my headphones are working properly, and then realized it's the chorus that causes the strange effect.

Being able to rearrange the FX would solve this, as sometimes it would be cool to have this superwide almost out-of-phase sound, but with a "normal" sounding reverb.