Synapse Audio - Dune 3.5 Released

[Touch The Universe]

Okay, good idea. Just my feelings hurt a bit. I'm new. Apologies.

Feel free to down vote, but please leave a comment on how to improve. Cheers

All good Don't expect anything from anyone.
Just do what you love with passion and devotion and in the end success will speak for itself.
Dune 3 screams for quality soundsets, I´m looking forward to hear what you come up with

thinking of 90 bass presets

[rafa1981]

I had been away from music for some months and fired up Dune to update it. Wow! I didn't even remember how good it sounds just with one oscillator.

The genetic feature is useful indeed.

[Gadget Fiend]

Finally a reasonable browser.

I'm not finding the new DUNE 3 browser to be that useful. I have a number of Synapse Audio DUNE 2 and DUNE 3 preset banks and almost none of them have the patches correctly categorized. So I can't filter my presets by instrument type (bass, lead, synth, etc.) for instance.

Synapse Audio need to go back and update all their patch banks to assign an instrument category to every preset at the very least.

[Teksonik]

There is no avoiding some housekeeping when switching to a new patch handling system. All the Synapse Factory banks are properly categorized and always have been with sub-folders.

Which of their additional banks are not properly categorized? For example if it's World of Cinematic I assume it will be up to Kevin Schroeder to update his bank.

All sound designers are going to have to update their banks to work in the new system if they didn't use proper sub-folders. There is just no avoiding that.

I have hundreds of my own patches that I'm going to need to do some housekeeping on to function properly since I don't use sub-folders for my own patches instead preferring to use pre-tags for patch names.

The old system has not been eliminated so you can still use it until any banks that aren't categorized are updated. I'll probably still make use of the old system for my own patches since you can see over 200 patches at a glance and any patch is only two mouse clicks away.

If you can post a list of the banks sold by Synapse that aren't properly categorized it will help them know what needs to be updated.

[Gadget Fiend]

If you can post a list of the banks sold by Synapse that aren't properly categorized it will help them know what needs to be updated.

I have Richard's email address. So I will let him know.

Oh btw, even those preset banks that are sorted by instrument type under the old system, are not showing up fully categorized according to the new preset instrument type categories. Only a few instrument categories are showing up in the left sorting panel.

[Teksonik]

That would be helpful. I don't own any third party banks so don't know which ones need updating.

[AnX]

Which of their additional banks are not properly categorized? For example if it's World of Cinematic I assume it will be up to Kevin Schroeder to update his bank.

It's down to SA really, they are selling it.

Of course, buyers would have to redownload the banks to accommodate the new browser

[Richard_Synapse]

All the Synapse Factory banks are properly categorized and always have been with sub-folders.

Yes indeed, all our factory banks and all our expansions have always been fully categorized, both for NKS and for our browser. See image below as an example, all banks work like this.

So I assume this is about 3rd party banks, which are beyond our control. Note that even those are fairly easy to categorize using the drag+drop feature in the new browser. Some freebie bank I had downloaded had a rather weird way to sort presets, using multi-selection then drag+drop on categories it took me less than a minute to sort the whole thing So I'm confident sound designers will adapt quickly, as intro wrote earlier in this thread they can also define their own categories now if they wish.

Richard

[Teksonik]

Oh btw, even those preset banks that are sorted by instrument type under the old system, are not showing up fully categorized according to the new preset instrument type categories. Only a few instrument categories are showing up in the left sorting panel.

Then that's a different issue. All the categories should be there. If a patch resides in the proper sub-folder then it will show up when that category is chosen. It should look something line this: (I have added some of my own categories)

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Categories that have patches inside are highlighted. Folders that are empty are darker. New categories can be added by using the .ini files.

[zvenx]

For a few third party banks I had to add subfolders for the categorization to take place and one AZS bank (his third Dune3 bank, dont' remember the name right now), I had to add AZ to all the patch names.

Of course some Third Party Banks don't have author's until I do what Marcin said I should with the config.ini file.
rsp

[Biome_Digital]

Hey guys, it took a day of sorting out, but all New Loops Dune 3 sound banks have been updated to use the new browser https://newloops.com/collections/dune-presets

Again, great job on the update and new browser, Richard!

[Richard_Synapse]

Cheers, that was fast!

Richard

[zvenx]

Hey guys, it took a day of sorting out, but all New Loops Dune 3 sound banks have been updated to use the new browser https://newloops.com/collections/dune-presets

Again, great job on the update and new browser, Richard!

Will updates be sent out?
I have Universal.

thanks
rsp

[Gadget Fiend]

Yes indeed, all our factory banks and all our expansions have always been fully categorized, both for NKS and for our browser. See image below as an example, all banks work like this.

So I assume this is about 3rd party banks, which are beyond our control. Note that even those are fairly easy to categorize using the drag+drop feature in the new browser. Some freebie bank I had downloaded had a rather weird way to sort presets, using multi-selection then drag+drop on categories it took me less than a minute to sort the whole thing So I'm confident sound designers will adapt quickly, as intro wrote earlier in this thread they can also define their own categories now if they wish.

Richard

The "Dune 2 Essential Collection Vol. 1" bank shows only the Leads and Pads instrument categories. Also, the "Rob Lee Dune 2 Essentials Vol. 1" bank doesn't show any of the instrument categories (they are all grayed out).

[zvenx]

If you select a bank that only has Pads and Basses for instance, only those two categories will not be grayed out.
rsp