KVR Audio

bermudagold · Post by **bermudagold** » Wed Feb 18, 2026 7:41 pm

wagtunes wrote: Wed Feb 18, 2026 5:39 pm Wavemapper 2.

It has one of the most unusual architectures I've ever seen and can make sounds that I've yet to be able to duplicate on any other synth.

And NOBODY talks about it. Not then and not now.

I brought it up multiple times just recently in the ultrawave and koda threads...kvrians tend to think everything old is antiquated and everything new is novel...which isnt really true...wavemapper had multiple original concept executions for the time

Weasel-Boy · Post by **Weasel-Boy** » Wed Feb 18, 2026 8:23 pm

wagtunes wrote: Wed Feb 18, 2026 5:39 pm T
First of all, with Wolfgang Palm gone, you can't even get this synth anymore.

By "gone"...do you mean no longer amongst us? You do know Wolfgang is not dead.

twal · Post by **twal** » Wed Feb 18, 2026 8:24 pm

Retrologue is definitely underrated in my view but looks like i said that a year ago from now.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Wed Feb 18, 2026 8:36 pm

Weasel-Boy wrote: Wed Feb 18, 2026 8:23 pm
wagtunes wrote: Wed Feb 18, 2026 5:39 pm T
First of all, with Wolfgang Palm gone, you can't even get this synth anymore.
By "gone"...do you mean no longer amongst us? You do know Wolfgang is not dead.

Yes, I know. But he has stopped selling plugins. At least last I checked.

audiojunkie · Post by **audiojunkie** » Wed Feb 18, 2026 9:08 pm

swilow11 wrote: Thu Feb 13, 2025 11:52 pm As per title, what synths are you surprised to not see a lot of community love for?

For me, it's Tal Mod. Fantastic analogue sound, plenty of modulation, does hard sync, FM, ringmod, nice unison. MSEG, basic sequencer/arp, simple GUI which is easy to navigate, not too CPU heavy. It's my go to for basic analogue stuff, can do sharp cutting leads, squelchy acid, eerie pads, even pretty nice drums. Downsides are the useless filter saturation which drops volume significantly, ladder filter style bass stealing resonance, and the fx are average (but usable). It's not expensive too. Presets aren't great but it's so easy to program that this hardly matters. I use multiple instances every track. Honestly sounds better than stuff like Diva to me.

Please share your hidden treasures.

I am really, really surprised that there has not been much more mention of The Wave Warden's (of Odin 2 fame) Spline Wavetable Synth. This is a really nice Wavetable synth, that uses splines to guide modulation. Very straight forward and nice sounding synth:

https://thewavewarden.com/pages/spline- ... ynthesizer

Weasel-Boy · Post by **Weasel-Boy** » Wed Feb 18, 2026 11:54 pm

I think Odin 2 is overlooked. Everything the WaveWarden dropped into it is a solid amount of features for a freebee....particularly the oscillator & filter choices.

bermudagold · Post by **bermudagold** » Thu Feb 19, 2026 12:18 am

audiojunkie wrote: Wed Feb 18, 2026 9:08 pm
swilow11 wrote: Thu Feb 13, 2025 11:52 pm As per title, what synths are you surprised to not see a lot of community love for?

Please share your hidden treasures.
I am really, really surprised that there has not been much more mention of The Wave Warden's (of Odin 2 fame) Spline Wavetable Synth. This is a really nice Wavetable synth, that uses splines to guide modulation. Very straight forward and nice sounding synth:

https://thewavewarden.com/pages/spline- ... ynthesizer

I was surprised this and ghost didn't generate more buzz based on historical precedent...wavetable fatigue i guess

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Thu Feb 19, 2026 12:27 am

Download SOphist wrote: Wed Feb 18, 2026 7:24 pmArcSyn, maybe

Yeah, I agree that it never really got the attention it deserved. I used to use it all the time and then I didn't and I honestly couldn't tell you why. It is a great synth, I suppose it was a case of having newer, shinier toys to distract me.

audiojunkie wrote: Wed Feb 18, 2026 9:08 pmI am really, really surprised that there has not been much more mention of The Wave Warden's (of Odin 2 fame) Spline Wavetable Synth. This is a really nice Wavetable synth, that uses splines to guide modulation. Very straight forward and nice sounding synth: https://thewavewarden.com/pages/spline- ... ynthesizer

The spline thing looks a lot like the way Rob Papen's Go 2 works. I used to use Go 2 a bit but I got over it pretty quickly. It's on a couple of songs from our 2020 album, that we've never played live, but that's about it, really. I feel a bit sorry for our 2020 album. It obviously came out in the middle of Covid and by the time we got to play live again, we'd written most of the songs for the next album so the 2020 songs never really got the workout they deserved.

audiojunkie · Post by **audiojunkie** » Thu Feb 19, 2026 2:06 am

BONES wrote: Thu Feb 19, 2026 12:27 am
audiojunkie wrote: Wed Feb 18, 2026 9:08 pmI am really, really surprised that there has not been much more mention of The Wave Warden's (of Odin 2 fame) Spline Wavetable Synth. This is a really nice Wavetable synth, that uses splines to guide modulation. Very straight forward and nice sounding synth: https://thewavewarden.com/pages/spline- ... ynthesizer
The spline thing looks a lot like the way Rob Papen's Go 2 works. I used to use Go 2 a bit but I got over it pretty quickly. It's on a couple of songs from our 2020 album, that we've never played live, but that's about it, really. I feel a bit sorry for our 2020 album. It obviously came out in the middle of Covid and by the time we got to play live again, we'd written most of the songs for the next album so the 2020 songs never really got the workout they deserved.

It definitely has that vibe going on, doesn't it.

Underrated/overlooked synths