Discovery Pro synthesizer 6.4 to 8.0

[Introspective]

I know we like to quibble about minutiae, but the truth is, it’s trivial compared to good writing and playing.

I consider this two (separate, but related) hobbies: making music and synths. There is nothing wrong with that.

Quibbling about synths is much easier than quibbling about music. It's just like Photographers: they quibble about camera bodies and lenses and filters and tripods and mounts; the photography speaks for itself, and personal taste trumps specs.

[zerocrossing]

Huzzah! It doesn’t matter if your inspiration comes from a Moog One, Yamaha PSR or some stock module SynthEdit plugin that you run using jBridge because it tickles your fancy. I know we like to quibble about minutiae, but the truth is, it’s trivial compared to good writing and playing.

In fact, a Yamaha PSR (can't remember the number now) was instrumental in starting a 10 year playing career with the best band I ever played with...we had the shittest of gear, we weren't the most accomplished players, but we wrote pretty good fun songs that the punters enjoyed at gigs and that was reward in spades.

When I moved out to CA in the late 80s, I left my share of a Juno 106 behind. No one I knew had the cash to buy a synth so basically 4 of us chipped in and passed it around. The idea was that I’d get something on my own when I got there but the gig I’d secured fell apart and I was left scrambling to find a home and job. Anyway, I somehow got a small PSR something… I can’t remember the model. It was pretty bad, but I ran it though some guitar pedals and made it sing. That’s all I had until someone gave me a Korg Poly-800, which I loved.

I also sold my ailing Vox Buckingham and replaced it with a Marshal Valvestate (not tube) amp. I swear that amp sounded fantastic and while I planned on upgrading it as soon as money started coming in, I ended up keeping it for a long time.

People would now call all that gear junk, but I seemed to get great sounds out of it. I did get some weird looks when I showed up to an audition with the Valvestate, but as soon as things got going no one batted an eye. Now I have all the gear and software in the world and I’m the only one who hears it.

[Hink]

Huzzah! It doesn’t matter if your inspiration comes from a Moog One, Yamaha PSR or some stock module SynthEdit plugin that you run using jBridge because it tickles your fancy. I know we like to quibble about minutiae, but the truth is, it’s trivial compared to good writing and playing.

In fact, a Yamaha PSR (can't remember the number now) was instrumental in starting a 10 year playing career with the best band I ever played with...we had the shittest of gear, we weren't the most accomplished players, but we wrote pretty good fun songs that the punters enjoyed at gigs and that was reward in spades.

When I moved out to CA in the late 80s, I left my share of a Juno 106 behind. No one I knew had the cash to buy a synth so basically 4 of us chipped in and passed it around. The idea was that I’d get something on my own when I got there but the gig I’d secured fell apart and I was left scrambling to find a home and job. Anyway, I somehow got a small PSR something… I can’t remember the model. It was pretty bad, but I ran it though some guitar pedals and made it sing. That’s all I had until someone gave me a Korg Poly-800, which I loved.

I also sold my ailing Vox Buckingham and replaced it with a Marshal Valvestate (not tube) amp. I swear that amp sounded fantastic and while I planned on upgrading it as soon as money started coming in, I ended up keeping it for a long time.

People would now call all that gear junk, but I seemed to get great sounds out of it. I did get some weird looks when I showed up to an audition with the Valvestate, but as soon as things got going no one batted an eye. Now I have all the gear and software in the world and I’m the only one who hears it.

when replacing my gear after a major theft I had a 15 watt valvestate and a Boss distortion feedbacker pedal. I agree the sound was surprising and I really got a lot out of it. It had an issue though, my dad said it was a cold solder joint but I never found it. I lived in an 11 story hi-rise at the time, I was on the top floor and on the 22 story building next to us they rented space for antennas (this was mid 90's).

I would get this horrid noise from my amp for no apparent reason that would last 20-40 seconds, if you ever heard what a paging signal sounded like over the air then you know what I am talking about. I always had a scanner that could also search frequencies so I set out to find what it was.

A week or so later I showed up in the rental office, I had the name of the pager company, the frequency they broadcasted on and asked them to do something about it (I think technically they were suppose to) but I ended up having my accident shortly after and moved out.

My studio as it is now was born less than a week after moving, we've come a long ways

(ftr I bought a Marshall 9000 stereo tube preamp then too, still have it but never cared for it)

[antic604]

God damnit, this synth sounds awesome!

It's a weird combination of bread & butter / mundane patches, that somehow sound alive, rich and organic. Great stuff!!!

[kobal]

To bring it around, I had a Nord Lead 2x that was one of my favorite synths and when DiscoDSP remodeled the filter I did a side by side and after realizing that the “bite” the software was missing was due to it having a higher oversampling rate than the hardware, I turned it off and was able to recreate my favorite sounds to close enough for me. It wasn’t like I sold the 2x and felt remorse in any way. I really never gave it much thought after that.

i made a randomsyncro lead with discovery pro at 96khz ,then i matched it with nl 4 , sync of the nl 4 is slighty less fuzy either cause the synth might be slighty less bright or it was aliasing, and some other little difference but could match the sound by ear that i couldn t spot much the transition between both..90% the same and enjoyed both as much for slight little difference.. really nice, i will try the fm later

i m not sure but it felt like tthe random step lfo is slighty smoothed on the discovery but i enjoyed the subblte effect..not sure, it was a short try

a little nord lead4 303 for fun with full resonance full drive, back in 95.. https://www.dropbox.com/s/p2tblmqolw4cr ... 3.wav?dl=0

dunno if it show here but the nl4 can sound very high quality analog on some spot, i mean with a really pure timbre, no mudiness , no harsness, clear and detailed

[george]

Check these new Discovery Pro skins at https://killihu.vstskins.com/colorful-discovery-pro/

[Septic Underground]

Thanks for the link, but I really love the real look of your 7.3.3 red skin

I used to have a Nord 3 and 4 and I think you nailed the Clavia Nord sounds, very tight and snappy envs and some fuzzyness in the sound that is Clavia's ™

[george]

Discovery Pro 7.4 is out now.

Demo: https://www.discodsp.com/discoverypro/

7.x customers update: https://www.discodsp.com/members/

What's new

• Framework update with enhanced stability and reliability.
• Universal 2 Binary ProTools AAX for future proofing.
• AAX plugin now compiled with the latest 2.4 SDK.
• Bypass FX now persistent across bank changes.
• Enabled 2X GUI size for HiDPI displays.
• Fixed Skins folders not working in Linux.
• Fixed MIDI XML templates not working in Linux.
• Fixed MIDI learn not working in Linux.
• Nord Lead 2/4 MIDI templates now mirrors sync oscillator type with the board.

[audiojunkie]

Very nice! Thank you for the High Resolution support!!

[modularg2]

Impossible to download the update. It says : File download limit reached.

[george]

Please send a mail to contactus@discodsp.com with your account details and I will do a counter reset (it’s fairly high but sometimes happens).

[Xbucket]

no sound under Ableton 11 on m1 MacBook Monterey.

[george]

The sound issue was fixed please re-download the installer.

[Xbucket]

The sound issue was fixed please re-download the installer.

You are fast as a shark!!! But still no sound. Checked this in Ableton 11, FLStudio and Bitwig.

[george]

Please re-download the installer. The mac M1 machine didn't update the code properly.