What is the strangest synth you've encountered?

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THIS MUSIC HAS BEEN MIXED TO BE PLAYED LOUD SO TURN IT UP

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jamcat wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 4:09 am This one.

https://youtu.be/_yIp2huYgD8
Oh man do I love that movie. The sound effects and John Williams' score fit the film like a glove.

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jamcat wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 4:07 am Image
I can hear him in my head :lol: a-oo- a-ee
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jamcat wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 4:07 am
sQeetz wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 5:19 pm Delay Lama was pretty weird back in the days.
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I wish it had survived to 64-bit.
My fave VST, although it never made it into a single track. The animation was so cute and delightfully pointless!
I started on Logic 5 with a PowerBook G4 550Mhz. I now have a MacBook Air M1 and it's ~165x faster! So, why is my music not proportionally better? :(

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One of my first synths, Sun Ra by Elogoxa

https://www.uv.es/ruizcan/
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sugar bytes cyclop
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krzys wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 12:25 am
aMUSEd wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:39 pm
aMUSEd wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:15 pm
krzys wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:06 pm Truly innovative synthesis http://www.amaranthaudio.com/products/cycle/
Yeah I need to see if it still works on Big Sur but given it hasn't been updated for years I'm not hopeful
OK it won't install. I expected the installer to need to be run as an uncertified installer but even then it crashes before it gets a chance to install anything. Pity.

That’s unfortunate. The dev has a wonderful synth that unfortunately didn’t receive enough airplay to take it further down the development path. Thanks for the heads up re: big sur.
Last ditch attempt to copy over the VST, Standalone and Presets folder from a backup failed too - the VST just gets ignored by hosts, so I guess maybe it has some 32 bit code? The standalone won't start either.

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Gribs wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 11:42 pm Synplant was definitely strange when I first tried it, but strange in a very good way. I so wish for a version 2, but it doesn't look like that is going to happen. I don't know what Magnus has been doing since he worked with Teenage Engineering to make the PO-32 (meh).
Version 2 was first mentioned back in 2013; every now and then someone asks about Synplant 2 on the Sonic Charge forum and is usually met with a non-committal reply. I own all of the SC plugin catalog, but I stopped giving a shit about Synplant 2 a couple of years ago.
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PSS-480 never knew it was a synth until recently.

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I think synthplant. And the best part: it's awesome !

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Halonmusic wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 2:22 pm sugar bytes cyclop
I forgot about this one , it is bonkers to work out.
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LeVzi wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 4:04 pm
Halonmusic wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 2:22 pm sugar bytes cyclop
I forgot about this one , it is bonkers to work out.
indeed :D
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aMUSEd wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 9:16 am
krzys wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 12:25 am
aMUSEd wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:39 pm
aMUSEd wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:15 pm
krzys wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:06 pm Truly innovative synthesis http://www.amaranthaudio.com/products/cycle/
Yeah I need to see if it still works on Big Sur but given it hasn't been updated for years I'm not hopeful
OK it won't install. I expected the installer to need to be run as an uncertified installer but even then it crashes before it gets a chance to install anything. Pity.

That’s unfortunate. The dev has a wonderful synth that unfortunately didn’t receive enough airplay to take it further down the development path. Thanks for the heads up re: big sur.
Last ditch attempt to copy over the VST, Standalone and Presets folder from a backup failed too - the VST just gets ignored by hosts, so I guess maybe it has some 32 bit code? The standalone won't start either.
indeed a synth that i had my eye on, and in a way still.... but the forum... no replies.... The Mangle, also abandoned, can still be bought, and downloaded, for instance, but well €20 or so....

for €149, a price i will pay for 'strangest synth' or 'ecosystems', i will not buy it, even on Windows...

a shame, and also strange that it still can be bought (The Mangle, the developer does not reply....).

well, Spectral effects, there are great Spectral effects, and there are ways to in way mimic what Cycle does, without the worfklow, and SIgnal Flow... wel the signal flow, can be mimiced, the treatment is a different story..

if you look at these kind of synths, Csound, can get you there, or SuperCollider, Csound has the advantage of making vst plugins... SuperCollider, but i can be wrong, has more FFT, or better after FFT, treatment possibilities, but i can be very wrong about this, i looked around in the Capabilities of SuperCollider, for Csound only one time...

well Cecilia 5 of AJAX SOUND SYSTEMS can do also some Specrtral, next to other things;

http://ajaxsoundstudio.com/cecilia5doc/ ... index.html

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Synthack wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 3:37 pm
vurt wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 3:59 pm
foosnark wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 2:57 pm Synths aren't strange, people are strange.
women seem wicked, when you're unwanted and streets look ugly.
That could be song lyrics.
feel free, i wont sue :)

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