With All These Emulations Coming Out...

[zvenx]

But special and inspiring may not be the same thing to everyone.
Like the famous jmj laser harp.. cherished and special to many, totally wtf to me.
rsp

[wagtunes]

But special and inspiring may not be the same thing to everyone.
Like the famous jmj laser harp.. cherished and special to many, totally wtf to me.
rsp

Okay, then if not "special" at least unique if nothing else sounds like it. To me, unique is inspiring. So if there is something out there that sounds like an A6, I want it. So far, nobody has been able to point me to a synth that sounds like an A6, inspiring or not.

[EvilDragon]

Well because it doesn't exist since nobody emulated it. Circular argument. But I did say which synth has features closest to it

[wagtunes]

Well because it doesn't exist since nobody emulated it. Circular argument. But I did say which synth has features closest to it

Which I will check out today.

[beely]

I never got the Andromeda thing either. Back when it was released, it was certainly an ambitious product, and real analog polysynths weren't really done at that time so it was a bit of a novelty - especially with 16-voices - but for some reason it never really appealed to me - not sure why. Partly I think I always found the design/interface pretty ugly and slightly cheap-looking (I know other people love it). I can't comment on the usability as I've never used one.

And while for an analog synth it had a lot of features for the time, those things are not uncommon in the modern VA plugin world these days, so a lot of what it could do is well-covered territory for any decent VA plugins with a comprehensive modulation system (I'm not saying they are the same, just you can cover a lot of the same ground, if the sound demos are anything to go by).

I think likely that even if Arturia or someone else did a good Andromeda emulation, and lot of people who were expecting some kind of magic due to it's attained reputation would be like "Oh, well it doesn't really sound much different to other plugins". A bit like the Memorymoog one - a lot of "Oh, doesn't really do much for me" etc.

I agree though that Arturia seem a good fit for doing an Andromeda emulation, if one would be done. Maybe Cherry Audio would like to do it. It's not really something I'm super interested in though, due to my general ambivalence about the hardware. The various sound demos didn't really do much for me (either then, or recent stuff), but maybe I'm missing something that others are hearing...

[Lbdunequest]

Technicly The Legend HZ is close

[Deisss]

For me, the A6 is like the Fizmo—you either love it or you just don't get excited about it.

That's just my personal opinion, of course.

It's an uninspiring synth by it's original presets. Now if you start disabling the tuning, start understanding how to make it multi timbral (somehow, on a single patch, it always ring "mono" to my ears - might be me missing something in the doc back then), then it start to be good.

Give yourself couple of years, and you will move to "good" to "exceptional". The learning curve is very very high, and you need to force yourself onto it and not always reproduce the 2/3 tricks you've learn over the first few months.

Now by today's standard, not so sure, it's main feature was mainly too much of everything really, like almost unlimited whatever you might think about. Today, many VSTs offers that, and even more.

It never was a Jupiter 8 or an OB-X8 into it's raw sound in the first place afterall...

Though I recall some presets that were pure accident due to the knob flickering where I never asked for. Somehow, the majority of them were happy accident and gives a nice edge and therefore unique patches

[EvilDragon]

Technicly The Legend HZ is close

Totally not.

[Lbdunequest]

Technicly The Legend HZ is close

Totally not.

It has 4 oscillator (6 in fact), moog filter, bandpass filter (like OB has), 4 LFOs/MSEGS, mod matrix.

In fact many synths are close, even Dune 3 is close

[EvilDragon]

And it sounds nothing like an Andromeda because it's missing too many OTHER features (sure it has bandpass but Andromeda has the full state variable with LP/BP/HP mixable simultaneously, etc.).

[zvenx]

I do like and miss cypher 2 (though strobe 2 even more)..(vst3 apple silicon is a must for me alas). I still play them standalone from time to time.
rsp

[wagtunes]

And it sounds nothing like an Andromeda because it's missing too many OTHER features (sure it has bandpass but Andromeda has the full state variable with LP/BP/HP mixable simultaneously, etc.).

You're actually making my point for me. Nothing sounds like it.

However, I just pulled up another Youtube demo and at the same time loaded Tranzistow and a strings patch. Played along to the video and let me tell you, the sound is close enough that the two synths sound amazing together.

I think I can make Tranzistow do for now, if I can ever figure out how to program this monster.

[wagtunes]

I do like and miss cypher 2 (though strobe 2 even more)..(vst3 apple silicon is a must for me alas). I still play them standalone from time to time.
rsp

Why do you miss Cypher 2? They still sell it. I just downloaded the demo today.

[zvenx]

There is no vst3. I still have them installed but i am 99% apple silicon these days on cubendo.
rsp

[wagtunes]

There is no vst3. I still have them installed but i am 99% apple silicon these days on cubendo.
rsp

The vst 2 doesn't work on your machine?