What Can Hive/Sylenth/Diva Do Uniquely?

[telecode]

I think these are all great points but you are thinking like a software developer/UX designer and not like a musician.

One time, the Ducks were lost in a wasteland. Uncle Scrooge asks Donald: "which way would you go?" Donald thinks for a while, then points and says "this way".

"Then we'll go in the opposite direction!" replied Uncle Scrooge.


Don't know why I thought of this just now.

Is that not the plot to all Monty Python skits?

[ghostwhistler]

I think Sylenth sounds nice tbh, a bit 'obvious' perhaps.

Is Hive 2 really simple? The wavetable thing is not what i'd call simple.

Leaning this stuff isn't something I find easy but I do enjoy making weird noises, especially on computers

[BONES]

Well, compare to synths that have tabs for module groups. Like those where you can't see/edit two LFOs or two envelopes at the same time. Or worse, those where oscillators are tabbed away. Or evil, where modules from one tab can not interact with modules from another; those in which tabulation limits functionality.

Sure, there are much worse but there are also much better. To be honest, I was a bit surprised at how much was hidden when I started to tabulate it, because I've always thought of Hive as a one-page synth. But that's what happens when you try to jam in as much as you can, which is why I much prefer simpler synths. I like to compare it to spanners (wrenches) - you can have a single adjustable/shifting spanner or a set of ring/open-end spanners but we all know which does the better job.

If there's one thing I think of as a rather unique achievement with our stuff, it is the way we deploy tabbing in a task driven manner.

All true. On a related note, have you seen/used NI's TRK-01? I really like its UI - the big controls always visible with the lesser controls for each section displayed in the centre panel when you need them. It is extremely slick and usable.

[Spring Goose]

Back to Ghostwhistler's question.

I bought the U-He bundle, and i've been using Diva the most. Diva is truly excellent for clubby dance music, i don't know for what else. For house and techno i think Diva sounds better and easier to use than Sylenth. Diva is several synths in one, Diva includes preset templates for quite a few emulated synths: Juno, Jupiter, Moog, and some "fictional" "mongrel" synths, and sound great.
I don't know whether Diva is unique, perhaps not, but Diva is easy and diverse.

[ghostwhistler]

Back to Ghostwhistler's question.

I bought the U-He bundle, and i've been using Diva the most. Diva is truly excellent for clubby dance music, i don't know for what else. For house and techno i think Diva sounds better and easier to use than Sylenth. Diva is several synths in one, Diva includes preset templates for quite a few emulated synths: Juno, Jupiter, Moog, and some "fictional" "mongrel" synths, and sound great.
I don't know whether Diva is unique, perhaps not, but Diva is easy and diverse.

Yeah i picked it up. Yes it's a cpu beast, but i do like those early eighties late seventies spacey synth sounds. The digital oscillator is also very interesting. My problem is I'm struggling with the modificatoin optioins

[BONES]

Just ignore them, then. Use what you know and worry about the rest when you think you might need it.