Has anyone tried Excite Audio's Evolve Alloy?

[Cuauhtli]

https://www.excite-audio.com/evolvealloy

Or is this a new plugin? Didn't find a topic. Currently downloading but my connection is slow at the moment and it's about a 1.17GB download. Hopefully it won't fail...

[cyberboycoolen]

Haven't tried it, but noticed similarities to lunacy audio cube.

[bbart93]

Yeah I like it so far. Good for making metallic and weird textured basses and experimental sounds. Workflow is nice, easy to quickly get different results with the xy pad and I’m liking the sound variety from messing with the fx knobs (rust, etc). Have had a couple crashes and seems like there might be a few bugs to iron out, but for the entry price I’m really enjoying it. Not sure if it offers anything that you can’t get out of a wavetable synth like serum, but I do like the workflow and how easy it is to get some gritty experimental bass sounds out of it. I use these sounds a lot in my music so YMMV

[pekbro]

I like it and will probably pick it up, somewhat similar to Random Metal from Beatsurfing imo, but not really a replacement. I might wait to try and get the lite version free and upgrade from that, since they tend to do that if you're paying attention.

*Probably this is a first in a series of differently themed versions under the Evolve heading, since
again, they tend to do that as opposed to making an all-inclusive product, which I would guess
is probably done to maximize revenue..

[Cuauhtli]

Okay, been trying out the demo. Pretty cool that they let you save and load your presets during the trial period. I think I'll pick it up. I like that the randomize function will go through your sample folder.

It would be great if you could round robin the 4 sound generators (a la korg's Monopoly) and also to delay the triggering of each sound generator to stagger them or assign them to separate midi key zones. Maybe it can be done with the x/y pad as I haven't messed with that yet. I didn't look at the cpu usage but setting up 4 instances is the normal workaround.

[pummel]

Question: This tool appears to map a single wav file over the entire keyboard. As a result, does it sound dull and muddy in the lower octaves and ear piercing / aliased at the high end ? The point-of-sale you-tubes only demon-strate the 'sweet spot' near the root pitch. (Although I suppose one could judiciously choose user samples pitched at the appropriate performance range.)

[Caine123]

seems again annoying to not be able to set user folder paths but copy your samples? or am i wrong?

[pekbro]

seems again annoying to not be able to set user folder paths but copy your samples? or am i wrong?

Yea I dunno, probably not. Surprisingly, they have participated at GS, can prob ask about it there, tho I don’t think they made a thread
on this yet.

[Gribs]

I watched the PB video on it. To me it doesn’t look like anything all that new or innovative, especially given all the four-layer morphing products out there. Maybe if a person is just starting out it would be okay.

[Cuauhtli]

Question: This tool appears to map a single wav file over the entire keyboard. As a result, does it sound dull and muddy in the lower octaves and ear piercing / aliased at the high end ? The point-of-sale you-tubes only demon-strate the 'sweet spot' near the root pitch. (Although I suppose one could judiciously choose user samples pitched at the appropriate performance range.)

I didn't check for aliasing but that is how it works though you can set the root note when you import a sample, and you do have the option to turn off pitch tracking (the sample pitch will default to middle C). And you can tune +/- 24 semitones and you can also detune them +/- 100 (cents I imagine).