New GForce OB-EZ

[zvenx]

In the days when liner notes was a thing, check how many had credits for synth programmers separate from keyboardist/synthesist (lots)..

There are a few who excel at both like Arksun, Julian Pollack, Matt Johnson and I am sure quite a few others though, but they are indeed imho two separate art forms...

Of course if it is a hobby and you are just doing it for fun, that indeed is different as you don't necessarily need to be good at either.

rsp

[SLiC]

A lot of people just play keyboards and have no interest in how the sound was made, so a player version makes sense- AAS do loads of these.

[Teksonik]

but they are indeed imho two separate art forms...

Of course but there's no reason one can't excel at both art forms. For example would Skrillex be Skrillex if he had only used presets made by others?

Having said that, I'll use presets made by others without any guilt but I always reach for my own first because they're made to be the kind of presets I like and use.

Of course if it is a hobby and you are just doing it for fun, that indeed is different as you don't necessarily need to be good at either.

Or if it's more about being professional then learning the tools of your art form makes perfect sense.

Programming your synths prior to making music with them is as old as synths themselves. My first hardware synths didn't have the ability to save presets so you had no choice but to manually program them before each track.

[beely]

Can one not be a "synth programmer nerd" and also a musician? I consider myself to be both and don't consider them to be mutually exclusive.

You know what I mean... I'm talking about people who *aren't* synth programmer nerds, because the ones who are, will generally always want everything exposed and tweakable. It was pretty clear from my post, so let's not just try and be argumentative for the sake of it...

No one's saying you can't be a synth nerd and *also* a musician, but that's so obvious from the context I can't believe I'm having to actually type it...

If it still wasn't clear, there are people who have no interest or skills in synth programming, and are more interested in composing, and all they need (for a low price) is a good bunch of sounds and some easy musician-friendly-non-synth-nerd controls to quickly adjust to taste for the part.

[Uncle E]

That's not quite the same thing, unless you want to make every module identical. That's why OB-EZ is so good - it has a UNISON button that detunes each module against the others.

You're right. With Group turned on, the knobs should move relative to their current positions. Also, Unison should be added to OB-E.

[Uncle E]

A lot of people just play keyboards and have no interest in how the sound was made, so a player version makes sense- AAS do loads of these.

Yes, and the amount of control available with OB-EZ is quite a bit better than AAS Player and Analog Lab. Perfect for the person who likes to start from a preset and tweak from there.

[Teksonik]

Can one not be a "synth programmer nerd" and also a musician? I consider myself to be both and don't consider them to be mutually exclusive.

You know what I mean...

I don't think you know what you mean. Perhaps you need to work on your "clarity".

Anyway my point stands. It's not impossible to be a sound designer and a musician at the same time.

[Teksonik]

A lot of people just play keyboards and have no interest in how the sound was made, so a player version makes sense- AAS do loads of these.

Yes, and the amount of control available with OB-EZ is quite a bit better than AAS Player and Analog Lab. Perfect for the person who likes to start from a preset and tweak from there.

For the record I'm not opposed to this plugin at all but here's how I view it...

Training Wheels 1.png

[felis]

More like this:


https://can-am.brp.com/on-road/us/en/mo ... er-f3.html

[aMUSEd]

but they are indeed imho two separate art forms...

Not at all, for me music is creative exploration of sound, making music generally involves exploring sonic spaces where sound design and musical composition are part of the same process

[zvenx]

How many great musicians are also great sound designers?
Make it easier, how many good musicians are also good sound designers.
oh Add Eric Persing to my previous list.

rsp

[Vortifex]

I would much rather they'd made SEM polyphonic with a spread dial for voice panning and detune instead of making this. A simpler version of OB-E, much like what they did with Oddity 3 and Axxess.

[aMUSEd]

How many great musicians are also great sound designers?
Make it easier, how many good musicians are also good sound designers.
oh Add Eric Persing to my previous list.

rsp

I would say most modular synth musicians also don’t see sound creation as a separate process from music creation - they are one and the same, the music emerges from the exploration of sound. This is also true of composers like Berio such as in his Sequenzas where the music is about exploration of the sonic and expressive possibilities of particular instruments.

[egbert101]

For the record I'm not opposed to this plugin at all but here's how I view it...



Training Wheels 1.png

Plugin for zoomers.

[zvenx]

How many great musicians are also great sound designers?
Make it easier, how many good musicians are also good sound designers.
oh Add Eric Persing to my previous list.

rsp

I would say most modular synth musicians also don’t see sound creation as a separate process from music creation - they are one and the same, the music emerges from the exploration of sound. This is also true of composers like Berio such as in his Sequenzas where the music is about exploration of the sonic and expressive possibilities of particular instruments.

I think modular synthesists is an exception though.
I actually would in general consider them more sound designers and composers than musicians in this role.

rsp