AudioThing SX1000 - Vintage Analogue Synth

[Vortifex]

I think this one is firmly in dedicated collector territory

[IvyBirds]

But prove me wrong give us an example of what you are talking about. I bet you can't

Thanks in advance

UAD Opal has been $39 since before Xmas.

Just saying it's a tough market to get into.

But that doesn't sound anything like an SX1000 and let's face it UAD had to sell it at such a deep discount because it's just not very good

[IvyBirds]

Thank you! I can't really comment on UAD's quality since I've never tried them, but I do have a few thoughts on pricing. Do you prefer companies that slap a $199 price tag on a product only to offer a constant 85% discount? I believe our prices are fair overall. We're constantly updating and improving all our products. Since we're a small team, if our prices are just $10 more than those of larger companies, does it really matter? We'll try to stay away from the race to the bottom for as long as possible.

Your company makes unique very high quality plugins at affordable prices. Things no one else would dare to do

I can't imagine not having things like Wires

[beely]

But that doesn't sound anything like an SX1000

Obviously, no one is suggesting it does, they were making a point about pricing for subjectively similarly featured synths.

(If Opal or Polymax *did* sound like an SX1000, I wouldn't have bought them... )

and let's face it UAD had to sell it at such a deep discount because it's just not very good

Not really - they sell all their native plugins at that price point in the sales, that's the sale price point they've decided works for them.

I think Opal is quite a nice little synth (as is Polymax) and think they've done a good job on their instruments generally, better than I was expecting when they first started go down the instruments direction. Obviously it depends what someone is looking for in a synth, but I find there is value in simplicity and directness - not every sound needs some super complex modulation setup etc.

[sprnva]

UAD might be "top tier" and regularly cheap, but it also brings iLok and UA Connect. AudioThing plugins use a simple keyfile, support CLAP and run on Linux.

So when making comparisons it really depends on what your priorities are when purchasing a plugin.

[BERESHIT]

thanks brother

[vurt]

I think this one is firmly in dedicated collector territory

or anyone looking for that "boards of canada" sound

[IvyBirds]

But that doesn't sound anything like an SX1000

Obviously, no one is suggesting it does, they were making a point about pricing for subjectively similarly featured synths.

Only they were not comparing two alike things so the comparison is not relevant like at all

They jumped into a thread about a completely unrelated product to bitch and moan that another companies product that outside of being a synth has nothing in common and is somehow better and cheaper in their opinion

Quite frankly that is BS

AudioThing makes many things other companies don't and sells them at a fair price

Want to know what an obscure Italian synth from the late 1970s sounds like when run through a Dolby A encoder, recorded to a Soviet Wire Recorder and then played back through and Aphex Aural Expander? Using all AudioThing plugins you can

If you want those things you won't find them at UAD or anywhere else at any price

[Uncle E]

or anyone looking for that "boards of canada" sound

Was that the “secret weapon”?

[El°HYM]

or anyone looking for that "boards of canada" sound

Was that the “secret weapon”?

Nope.

[vurt]

or anyone looking for that "boards of canada" sound

Was that the “secret weapon”?

that with liberal use of tape.
add kids tv samples (sesame street for example) and you're halfway there.

drums arent my area of expertise.

[Teksonik]

I'm always happy to see a new addition to the freeware line up.

Wait, what? It's $49 ? For a single Osc synth in 2025? For an emulation of a synth that was a joke when it was new and has been outdated for 45+ years?

Bwuahahahah

(drops grenade in the thread and walks away laughing knowing the masses be on it like a pack of Piranhas on a fresh side of beef). (I can already hear some ivory colored fingers banging away at a qwerty keyboard)

But seriously no offense to Audiothing because I'm sure there are enough retrograde customers who will buy it to justify the project. However, every minute spent emulating that sadsynth© is a minute not spent on something that pushes synthesis forward into the future instead of a handful of decades into the past.

As someone who lived and owned hardware through those decades, the desire to have every bottom level hunk of obscure and rusting hardware from the period makes no sense to me given the incredible power we have at our fingertips with modern software based synths in 2025.

It's like wanting to watch your favorite movie on a VHS deck that has tracking issues instead of your 4K Blu-Ray copy. (8K softsynths are coming if R&D efforts are pointed forward).

But hey to each their own.

Good luck with the SX1000 project. I hope you sell millions of them.

Let's go make some music..........

[audiojunkie]

But prove me wrong give us an example of what you are talking about. I bet you can't

Thanks in advance

UAD Opal has been $39 since before Xmas.

Just saying it's a tough market to get into.

Yes, but there are intangibles:

* The developer is here talking to us. Support isn’t like that with UAD.

* AudioThing uses a simple serial for copy protection, without using challenge/response or calling home. Am I wrong about this?

* AudioThing supports Linux. This makes all the difference to Linux users like me.

[El°HYM]

It's like wanting to watch your favorite movie on a VHS deck that has tracking issues instead of your 4K Blu-Ray copy. (8K softsynths are coming if R&D efforts are pointed forward).

Which pretty much sums up what the mighty BOC did, or not.

[audiojunkie]

UAD might be "top tier" and regularly cheap, but it also brings iLok and UA Connect. AudioThing plugins use a simple keyfile, support CLAP and run on Linux.

So when making comparisons it really depends on what your priorities are when purchasing a plugin.

Ha! You beat me to it! My thoughts exactly!