That's enough now! Think about the poor people who have already too many synths but also have a serious GAS and try to resist desesperatly to purchase this new fun toy.kraster wrote: Wed Nov 08, 2023 1:01 pmI agree with you on the presets. I think they're too processed and don't really let the actual sound of the synth through a lot of the time.Ou_Tis wrote: Wed Nov 08, 2023 12:29 pmThose definitely sound a lot better; the reverb doesn't sound so bad. But I still don't like the presests I've listened to so far very much. The second half of Shards is okay.db3 wrote: Wed Nov 08, 2023 5:18 amYou can browse presets here: https://www.minimal.audio/stream/current_presetsOu_Tis wrote: Tue Nov 07, 2023 4:31 pm I'm not keen on installing junk on my hard drive and wasting my time demoing it if they can't even manage to post decent audio examples.
Granted, it might not be difficult to tweak these so I like them more---the filter sweep in Rebel March gets too abrupt around the midway point, the basses generally don't have enough bass, Ladder Arp is too harsh while simultaneously lacking in the upper mids, the (wavetable?) sweeps in Color Cannon are too fast and the distortion needs to be adjusted, Chrysalis and some other pads sound *too* full, Alert Me is almost good but the growly part isn't growly enough, etc. But even after tweaking I probably wouldn't use any of them.
One thing that's not clear in these demos is how much is being controlled via automation vs modulators vs sequencing---sequencer can be turned off I'd assume but editing complex modulation can be a huge hassle. OTOH I do like being able to control complex modulation and sequences via 5D MPE.
Take for example. the ladder arp preset you mentioned. I had a look at that and in the effects section you have a chorus on the "glass" mode followed by a fuse compressor with +5db boost from 2k up with a 12:1 ratio and a very low threshold.
The net effect is quite harsh, cold and metallic sounding with a very excited top end at the expense of the high mids. The glass mode on the chorus is well...very glassy and having the whole thing boosted is going to lead to what you describe.
Just to see, I replaced the Chorus with Cluster delay with a short delay rate and tamed the output a little with delay's low pass filter. I also adjusted the fuse compressor upper band to be less grabby and turned the band down and it's far more balanced to my ears.
But, to be fair, that kind of clangerous quality to sounds is part of some EDM genre's aesthetics nowadays.
In Current pretty much all the automation and sequencing IS modulation. Step sequencing is done with the curve modulator (multi stage envelope) and each modulator's depth can be modulated with another modulator.
There's also an arpeggiator and chord generator.
It takes a leaf out of Pigment's book in how you identify what's modulating what. Just hover the cursor over any modulator and it will show the destination and conversely hover over any destination to see what's modulating it.
You can reset any modulator's depth to zero by double click and remove all modulation on a destination by right clicking the knob/slider and select reset.
One thing I would like to see is the ability to deactivate each modulator. As it stand you can only reset it to its defaults.
