KVR Audio

buffalo roam · Post by **buffalo roam** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 10:11 pm

Korg Supporter wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 6:00 pm
buffalo roam wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:08 pm Huh? Why should we get excited about this backward-looking synth with uninteresting features? I can't join the gush of excitement here. Sorry.
There aren't many wavetable or waveform synths, hardware or software, with OTA filters.

Oh, well, OK!

Echoes in the Attic · Wed Mar 26, 2025 12:19 am

Watched the vid and it does sound nice though. Seems to have all of what made thing-8 sounds good but with more flexibility of additional oscillator types. I wonder what else is special about the OSC other than just being multi samples with variation in the start time?

audiojunkie · Post by **audiojunkie** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 1:10 am

It looks nice, but what will really matter, is how it sounds. I think my ideal as far as synth interfaces go would be something very close to the interface of Serum 2. I can't find much fault with that interface.

trusampler · Post by **trusampler** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 1:42 am

Thing is one of my favorite sounding synths. It had a bit of growing pains in the beginning, but now has become my go to for Jupiter 8 sounds.
This one looks great, I have no doubt it’ll sound incredible. Still curious to know what synth it’s inspired by, anyone in the know ?

Cuauhtli · Post by **Cuauhtli** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 2:03 am

Yeah, the Thing and Diva are the best sounding soft synths I've heard. Still don't own either one for whatever reason.

audiojunkie · Post by **audiojunkie** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 2:15 am

I just went and looked at "Thing", because everyone was talking about it. I can't fault the sound. It sounds good. But the interface! It's horrible! This Alice synth's interface is a vast improvement! I hope those who own Thing get an update some day that looks better. I would get a headache if I had to look at Thing all day.

Morty-C-137 · Post by **Morty-C-137** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 5:45 am

cryophonik wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 10:05 pm But, the faux scratches add dirt, grit, and character to the sound and make it more vintager-er.

Yeah man.. sounds wormer... analag..

Deisss · Post by **Deisss** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 9:02 am

Thnig 8 has been a staple for me since it's release, so definitely looking at this new one!

cowby · Post by **cowby** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 11:18 am

their designer is top

el-bo (formerly ebow) · Wed Mar 26, 2025 4:07 pm

Looks great! Shame there seems to be no high-pass filtering for the delay and reverbs. It would be quite easy to accommodate hp/lp for both, with minimal re-organisation

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 5:58 pm

It reminds of the D16 synth. What was that called? Lush?

Cuauhtli · Post by **Cuauhtli** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 7:37 pm

That was my first thought, the sh 101, which Lush is inspired by or supposed to be a 'roided up version of I think.

miloszz · Post by **miloszz** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 8:13 pm

I gave up on Thing8, CPU spikes on a M1 Max processor didn't get fixed before the price increased the regular price. Nice synth but not worth battling the spikes they barely acknowledged and absolutely not worth more than $200.

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 9:34 pm

miloszz wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 8:13 pm I gave up on Thing8, CPU spikes on a M1 Max processor didn't get fixed before the price increased the regular price. Nice synth but not worth battling the spikes they barely acknowledged and absolutely not worth more than $200.

Same here. They didn't fix spikes between preset changes and didn't add real automation ranges to the AU, so I didn't buy. Polish your product and I'll buy it. I'd try this to see if it has the same problems though, because I'd maybe buy it if not.

db3 · Post by **db3** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 9:50 pm

As far as I recall, Thing preset change spikes were fixed before the price went up...otherwise I wouldn't have purchased it (for M1 Max). It's currently available with 44% off with THSPECIAL before March 31st (still not cheap though).

What I do find annoying is they said they would improve Thing's preset browser including centralising preset management across plugin versions. They've gone quiet on that other than state they need to address preset management during the livestream.

Acustica ALICE-9 synth