PLASMONIC - A new synth from Brian Clevinger

[pdxindy]

A weird ambient piece. 6 instances of Plasmonic used, no extern FX.

beautiful... Plasmonic has such a lovely organic character

[Whywhy]

+1, good job!

[Dirtgrain]

Anyone know if Plasmonic is likely to go on sale in the near future?

[killmaster]

A weird ambient piece. 6 instances of Plasmonic used, no extern FX.

beautiful... Plasmonic has such a lovely organic character

Yes, truly. It's been hard for me to think about any other synth lately!

[Cinebient]

Thank you all. Yes, I really love the organic timbres from Plasmonic.
Another example...what about a strummed piano/hybrid thingie.
https://soundcloud.com/user-790535032/p ... mmed-piano
... and a layered duo...
https://soundcloud.com/user-790535032/p ... -piano-duo

[p1afff]

Anyone know if Plasmonic is likely to go on sale in the near future?

Well, it ended its launch period quite recently, so not so sure ...

[p1afff]

Thank you all. Yes, I really love the organic timbres from Plasmonic.
Another example...what about a strummed piano/hybrid thingie.
https://soundcloud.com/user-790535032/p ... mmed-piano
... and a layered duo...
https://soundcloud.com/user-790535032/p ... -piano-duo

nice strumming, @Cinebient...

[pdxindy]

Thank you all. Yes, I really love the organic timbres from Plasmonic.
Another example...what about a strummed piano/hybrid thingie.

more excellent stuff... all these examples could be unusual acoustic instruments. That is my favorite physical modeling.

[Cinebient]

Thank you all. Yes, I really love the organic timbres from Plasmonic.
Another example...what about a strummed piano/hybrid thingie.

more excellent stuff... all these examples could be unusual acoustic instruments. That is my favorite physical modeling.

Indeed, I like how you can fast and easy create kinds of piano, harp, guitar hybrids. It also can do nice woodwinds. Brass and strings are a bit harder but I just start to explore it and I guess if someone really get deep and take time you can create also very realistic instruments. But I also prefer such hybrids which sound somewhat realistic but actually are never heard instruments.
First I thought I miss the great morphing Sculpture can do but actually Plasmonic is even better here. The resonator looks simple at first look but I really think now its the most advanced single resonator ever. I find the percussions I can get out of this better as from Chromaphone f.e.
Bowing instruments are the hardest part yet and I hope here we see something added things in the future. I also would love to see some more impulses.
However, you can really create so much different timbres which even can sound so different on each note if you like.
This is not only my new favourite synth but also one of my new favourites for keys. It will not replace something like Pianoteq but I think it can do similar great stuff in terms of organic feeling.
Also its a v1 and so I think we will see some great new things added in the future (hopefully).
I think with a more modern GUI it would be a much better seller as well.
Still the main contra, the GUI and some parts of the workflow but then its really so much more powerful as I thought, also in terms of modulations. There must gone much thoughts about all this little randomisations and organic behaviours into the engine which really stands out for me here more as in any other physical modelling tool or synth. Call me a Plasmonic fanboy from now

[Old Norse]

Brass and strings are a bit harder but I just start to explore it and I guess if someone really get deep and take time you can create also very realistic instruments.

Indeed. I'd be very interested to hear what you come up with in this department, especially remembering your organic and very alive-sounding patches on the Pulsar Modular P900.

[Cinebient]

Brass and strings are a bit harder but I just start to explore it and I guess if someone really get deep and take time you can create also very realistic instruments.

Indeed. I'd be very interested to hear what you come up with in this department, especially remembering your organic and very alive-sounding patches on the Pulsar Modular P900.

I will See. Plasmonic takes much more time, especially if you also want to edit presets with MPE usage (since I own a Seaboard Rise 25 which I do not used yet in any of these presets, so all you heard was mainly just plain midi on/off with some velocity changes, so there is much more alive sound possible of course).
For me P900 still is very unique and has for me by far the best saturation and behaviour in terms of high resonance in any tool I used yet but actually its now "only" my second favourite synth after Plasmonic

[killmaster]

I just had this idea. This synth is so rich and lush and I was wondering if I use a high sample rate, like 96KHz, would it be even richer? I'll try it but curious if anyone has experience recording at higher sample rates like this?

[ScrLk]

I just had this idea. This synth is so rich and lush and I was wondering if I use a high sample rate, like 96KHz, would it be even richer? I'll try it but curious if anyone has experience recording at higher sample rates like this?

It depends on whether Plasmonic is already oversampled or not.

[fisherKing]

I just had this idea. This synth is so rich and lush and I was wondering if I use a high sample rate, like 96KHz, would it be even richer? I'll try it but curious if anyone has experience recording at higher sample rates like this?

what's the endgame? if you record at a high sample rate, and you mix at that same rate, and listen back to those very mixes on studio monitors, it might be worthwhile.

if you end up with mp3s, or your music is streaming, there's no point. but certainly worth trying...

[killmaster]

I just had this idea. This synth is so rich and lush and I was wondering if I use a high sample rate, like 96KHz, would it be even richer? I'll try it but curious if anyone has experience recording at higher sample rates like this?

what's the endgame? if you record at a high sample rate, and you mix at that same rate, and listen back to those very mixes on studio monitors, it might be worthwhile.

if you end up with mp3s, or your music is streaming, there's no point. but certainly worth trying...

Thanks! Yeh, I'd want to either play live or have compositions that would end up on Soundcloud or other streaming service. Going to try and record at 96 for now. I can't really tell much different with my ears.