KNIFONIUM synth released

[Gamma-UT]

English pronunciation video

There’s your problem.

[Gamma-UT]

The physical instrument has patch points on the back. Does this emulation have them?

There are two external inputs for CV-type signals, patchable in a few places.

[MitchK1989]

I checked it out and I think for the types of sounds this leads me too I'd rather stick with an old classic for dirty/distorted/character stuff - Olga from stillwell/schwa.

[BONES]

Unison on some synths sounds absolutely terrible.

Yet here you are, unable to name even one. Hardly convincing.

[chk071]

Unison on some synths sounds absolutely terrible.

Yet here you are, unable to name even one. Hardly convincing.

If I do, I get the mob of usual suspects on my tail, which will claim that what I say is not true, so I won't.

If you think that unison on every synth sounds great, or even the same, then, hey, who am I to convince you of anything else. I certainly hear differences, and, yes, I think unison on some synths simply sound horrible.

[wagtunes]

Unison on some synths sounds absolutely terrible.

Yet here you are, unable to name even one. Hardly convincing.

If I do, I get the mob of usual suspects on my tail, which will claim that what I say is not true, so I won't.

If you think that unison on every synth sounds great, or even the same, then, hey, who am I to convince you of anything else. I certainly hear differences, and, yes, I think unison on some synths simply sound horrible.

I'll second this. Of course those synths where unison sounds terrible, those synths just sound terrible period. I own a few of them. Still don't know why I bought them.

[chk071]

On some synths, unison just sounds noisy and almost metallic or scratchy. Synths with great unison that I own are Spire, Sylenth1 or Z3TA. Sylenth1 in particular sounds very good, and doesn't phase either when you use unison. Some synths already phase with one oscillator unison, and some when you use unison on oscillator level, and use 2 oscillators or more (Spire sometimes does phase too, I still haven't figured out why, or was able to replicate it reliably.).

[BONES]

Phasing is the point of it, to give the sound life and movement. If you're not getting that phasing, you haven't detuned the oscillators enough and all you're doing is making the patch louder. It's pointless without the phasing.

If you think that unison on every synth sounds great, or even the same, then, hey, who am I to convince you of anything else. I certainly hear differences, and, yes, I think unison on some synths simply sound horrible.

See the bit I've underlined? That's you reading shit into what's written that simply isn't there. I assume you've added it to make your response seem more reasonable than it actually is.

I own a lot of synths, real and virtual, and the only synths I could never get great sounding unison from were the two Roland Boutique synths I owned, because all they had was an on/off switch. Some instruments need a bit of effort but I always manage a good result in the end. e.g. In Continua you have to add random modulation to oscillator fine tune, otherwise you just get a louder version of the same sound.

[zerocrossing]

What’s up with the weird artifacts on the upper range? Is this something that’s accurate to the original? Seems too crazy for aliasing...

[Vertion]

English pronunciation video

There’s your problem.

Not at all. KVR is located in California, which is in America. The declared language spoken in America and on KVR is English. Since we are speaking in English to each other, we use English words and pronunciation rules. If it were intended to be pronounced Kanif, they would have spelled it that way while converting from Finnish to English. Just as many Chinese words are phonetically converted into English spelling for the sake of pronunciation, the same is true here. I'm sure you're a rebel though, speaking in a way no one can understand you, so you can show everyone that the rules don't apply to you. But I'm not going to buy into a foreign speaker telling me their name is Knif, but is pronounced 'Elephant'. It's "Nif", and "Nifonium" as American English pronunciation goes. Words are appropriated to the spoken language, if it's English spell it Kanifonium, or pronounce it "Nifonium".

[AnX]

KVR is located in California, which is in America.

Northampton

[Vertion]

KVR is owned by KVR Audio, inc.
KVRAudio, Inc.
PO Box 620323
Woodside, CA 94062.
https://www.kvraudio.com/aboutkvr.php

[AnX]

yeah, but that's not where Ben (the original owner and admin) lives, and kvr is a virtual place....

[Aliens]

KVR is located in California, which is in America.

Northampton

Newport Pagnell aint it? Definitely nothing like Cali lol

[AnX]

oh yeah, might be.... long time since I saw it mentioned....