KNIFONIUM synth released
- Banned
- 697 posts since 29 Oct, 2016
Northampton in England? That would also be English as the declared language. Old English would pronounce the K in KN words, borrowing heavily from Germanic influence, but this stopped centuries ago. Finnish is a Uralic language, but had some Germanic ties. Knif sounds more Germanic than Finnish to me, but there was a lot of history there. Regardless of Germanic pronunciation, we use Modern English with KN which makes the K silent in all English pronunciation situations. But hey, start saying the K on all KN words and see how it makes you sound.
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- KVRian
- 1294 posts since 2 Oct, 2016 from Planet X-19
- KVRAF
- 1758 posts since 15 Mar, 2013 from Germany
Vertion wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 6:36 am Northampton in England? That would also be English as the declared language. Old English would pronounce the K in KN words, borrowing heavily from Germanic influence, but this stopped centuries ago. Finnish is a Uralic language, but had some Germanic ties. Knif sounds more Germanic than Finnish to me, but there was a lot of history there. Regardless of Germanic pronunciation, we use Modern English with KN which makes the K silent in all English pronunciation situations. But hey, start saying the K on all KN words and see how it makes you sound.
Ahhh lol actually I pronounced the k in Knifonium until now. I thought, with that strange name, it must be German, hehe. Just googled it and the original company seems to be Finish, though.
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- 10732 posts since 17 Nov, 2015
- KVRAF
- 1758 posts since 15 Mar, 2013 from Germany
Fun fact: in German "Kniff" means trick, gimmick. The word is a bit oldish though.
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- KVRian
- 1286 posts since 7 Dec, 2013 from Earth
I fail to see what the location of KVR has to do with the way Knif is pronounced. Knif Audio is a Finnish company so I don't think it should be pronounced with an English accent, so no silent K.
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- addled muppet weed
- 105857 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
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- KVRAF
- 3526 posts since 1 Sep, 2016
Bit of a wild beast this synth. I've had fun playing with it, but I would struggle to find a place for it in the kind of music I like to make, so the price makes it a no go at the moment.
It's quite heavy on CPU, comparible to Diva on max quality. The spread function does really weird things to the sound when you listen in mono that seem to go beyond normal mono compatibility issues. The UI is also a bit of a clusterfuck in my opinion.
Overall though there are few synths quite like this one, it's good to see something a little different.
It's quite heavy on CPU, comparible to Diva on max quality. The spread function does really weird things to the sound when you listen in mono that seem to go beyond normal mono compatibility issues. The UI is also a bit of a clusterfuck in my opinion.
Overall though there are few synths quite like this one, it's good to see something a little different.
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- KVRian
- 1204 posts since 23 May, 2016
Yeah, I really don't understand why and how they implemented this spread knob. It just looks like a show off to get the WOW effect on headphones/studio speakers.
They already did that in bx_oberhausen and it was mostly unusable for me because of the bad mono compatibility.
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- KVRist
- 488 posts since 10 Jun, 2007 from Netherlands
I had to turn up the buffer size to the max in asio4all to get rid of the crackle. None of my other synths ever needed that.
Hardly an issue though since I don't use inputs, but still kind of strange.
Hardly an issue though since I don't use inputs, but still kind of strange.
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- KVRAF
- 2086 posts since 24 Jun, 2006 from London, England