Yum Audio Ember: Vibe-driven Analog Synthesizer

[jules99]

Features

• Designed to deliver rich, characterful sound full of vibe in every note

• Intuitive interface designed for quick music creation

• Master controls for easily shaping complex sounds through tone, time, and width adjustments

• Extensive preset library by expert sound designers and artists

• Circuit controls that alter the inner accuracy and modulation, introducing analog-style unpredictability

• Oscillators with built-in saturation and sub-oscillator

• FM modulation for complex harmonic textures

• Resonant analog low-pass filter with key tracking

• Creative FX section with Crackle, Ripple, Chorus, Compress, Heat, Echo, and Space

• Drift section for evolving, organic modulation

• Arpeggiator for rhythmic movement and complexity

https://yum-audio.com/Ember/

129 USD.

Sounds pretty damn good, but the price if a bit steep. 14-day-full trial version available.

[Vortifex]

A naff and overpriced synth IMO. A single oscillator with blendable waveforms, a sine sub and FM. So, sort of Roland-ish, but there's no proper LFO, so you can only modulate via the two envelopes, which allow two destinations each out of a choice of six, three of which are the tape vibe effects. There is a drift control that acts like a pseudo LFO which you can assign to various parameters, but you can't adjust the speed or the shape, only the intensity.

The filter's alright, but there's no LFO or velocity modulation for it, only via the envelope or the preset modulation from the drift control.

The effects are a mixed bag. It has vinyl crackle and tape degradation for the lofi fans. The delay has significant baked-in ducking that can't be adjusted. The reverb is pretty much useless. Even with mix at 50% it sounds oddly vague and comb filtered.

The stereo width control is poorly implemented. There's a very quick sort of 'snap' across the stereo field almost like you're modulating the width via a fast envelope. It can't be heard in mono but in stereo it sounds very janky.

Monophonic mode has no envelope retrigger.

UI resizing only seems to work when it feels like it. Multiple times I tried to drag the corner with no effect.

This is absolutely not worth the absurd £120 they're asking for it. A "cutting-edge analog-style synthesizer" it is not.

[woodsdenis]

Like Yum other stuff. This is very niche, really relying on the fx to make the sound. Won’t resize for me which is a no deal straight out.

[pekbro]

I like it, im on the rent to own where its included. i owned a bunch of their stuff
already, rto was attractive to me towards
the rest.

[Gribs]

Yeah, it is a super-simple synth. I wonder if they made it as a stepping stone to more interesting sound design options. Their lo-fi plugins are fun, but this is very is bare bones and too expensive for what it is, even with the loyalty discount. A coupon for 40 dollars off was offered to me once I logged into my Yum Audio account.

[Stan Navi]

It is expensive, but the sound is the thing. I like it a lot. Maybe next black friday.

[Kretch]

A naff and overpriced synth IMO. A single oscillator with blendable waveforms, a sine sub and FM. So, sort of Roland-ish, but there's no proper LFO, so you can only modulate via the two envelopes, which allow two destinations each out of a choice of six, three of which are the tape vibe effects. There is a drift control that acts like a pseudo LFO which you can assign to various parameters, but you can't adjust the speed or the shape, only the intensity.

The filter's alright, but there's no LFO or velocity modulation for it, only via the envelope or the preset modulation from the drift control.

The effects are a mixed bag. It has vinyl crackle and tape degradation for the lofi fans. The delay has significant baked-in ducking that can't be adjusted. The reverb is pretty much useless. Even with mix at 50% it sounds oddly vague and comb filtered.

The stereo width control is poorly implemented. There's a very quick sort of 'snap' across the stereo field almost like you're modulating the width via a fast envelope. It can't be heard in mono but in stereo it sounds very janky.

Monophonic mode has no envelope retrigger.

UI resizing only seems to work when it feels like it. Multiple times I tried to drag the corner with no effect.

This is absolutely not worth the absurd £120 they're asking for it. A "cutting-edge analog-style synthesizer" it is not.

Thanks for the helpful feedback. Came in curious. Leaving with a relief I’m not splurging 120 on this yet.

I got the 2 months free YA sub so I’ll try this out later when time allows. So far I’ve tried Slap and was pretty disappointed with it. Spread is really nice though.

[vertibration]

The demo was cool, UI is pretty. To me, its worth $49

That should have been the price. If you are hitting that $100+ mark, you really gotta have an all in one synth kinda thing like Current, Pigments....so on.

$49 is all I would pay for this synth. Wait till they drop the price

[ChanceB]

Yeah it’s neat but not a 120 dollars worth of neat. I like their stuff mostly. I have crispy clip and slap and use them on everything, the lofi stuff is cool but not my thing. I was kind of excited when I saw they made a synth but it’s just another lofi plugin.