DUNE 3 is now available!!

[Elektronisch]

Steep upgrade price in my opinion when it doesnt seem like a full 3.0....

Take the patch library as an example. More than 200 of the new patches are made by Kevin Schroeder, and as usual they are of excellent quality. Each of his soundsets with about 64 patches is currently $20 in our shop. So the new patch library alone is worth the upgrade fee from this perspective. Of course other sound designers have contributed outstanding patches as well, this is just one example.

Richard

To manage that many patches you actually need a decent browser for that, at least with ability to favourite the presets (nexus 2 even has that and some of other ancient synths like Massive)

Had to do it

[Ghost Dog]

Personally, I'm glad the "new" version is not really a new version, but actually an update (let's all be fair, it really feels like 2.8 or something like that).

Otheriwse, I'd have to consider buying it (it sounds only a bit better, but it doesn't irk me like v2 did).

This way, I'm saving 160 Euros. Not bad.

[future-bit]

C/R protection? I am disappointed.

[Ghost Dog]

C/R protection?

Really?

[simmo75]

Personally, I'm glad the "new" version is not really a new version, but actually an update (let's all be fair, it really feels like 2.8 or something like that).

Otheriwse, I'd have to consider buying it (it sounds only a bit better, but it doesn't irk me like v2 did).

This way, I'm saving 160 Euros. Not bad.

Personally, I think it's a dope upgrade and you're bitter because you can't afford it...
(Let's all be fair, it's plain to see )

[recursive one]

It seems that everything I ever wanted is here Dual filters, formant and vowel inserts, improved unison (the swarm mode sounds really good), analogue modelled filters, saturation. The demo presets sound good and show that Dune is now capable of stepping into more fat/agressive territory. BA Vowel Step, SQ Nefarious and Mr Roboto just sounds soo cool I'm already prepared to hear these in some new psytrance tracks.

I'm definitely upgrading as soon I have money. I warmed up to Dune 2 in last months quite a bit and D3 seems very solid upgrade.

The only minor note is about presets, many of them use breath as mod source. I reckon not many people have breath controllers yet. No problem manually changing it to aftertouch though.

[recursive one]

* More interesting FM options. Currently it seems that you can only use a sine wave as your base for the FM which makes it pretty limited. As a result, I find it much harder to get really cutting sounds with DUNE.

You can use an oscillator as a modulation source at audio rate for that

[Ghost Dog]

Personally, I think it's a dope upgrade and you're bitter because you can't afford it...
(Let's all be fair, it's plain to see )

Mate, I promise you two things: I can afford it (at least ATM ) and I'm not bitter because I can't afford it.

I am a bit bitter, but only because I've allowed myself to come to expect a proper new verison with upgrades important to me, and what we got is actually just v2 "on steroids".

That's how it is and that's what I wrote. Not because of the reasons you mentioned.

Perhaps I'm not the manliest man around, but I am man enough to call things what they are (if I was bitter because I can't afford the proper upgrade we didn't get, I'd just say it, but that's not what happened) and express myself freely.

Besides, Those two "S" synths I do have (especially the one with 9 voices of unison), have me covered very nicely, so - "glass half full" here and no reason to be bitter.

[recursive one]

It's also cool that there are now FM ratios available as mod targets, that's something i always missed in D2.

[simmo75]

Personally, I think it's a dope upgrade and you're bitter because you can't afford it...
(Let's all be fair, it's plain to see )

Mate, I promise you two things: I can afford it (at least ATM ) and I'm not bitter because I can't afford it.

I am a bit bitter, but only because I've allowed myself to come to expect a proper new verison with upgrades important to me, and what we got is actually just v2 "on steroids".

That's how it is and that's what I wrote. Not because of the reasons you mentioned.

Perhaps I'm not the manliest man around, but I am man enough to call things what they are (if I was bitter because I can't afford the proper upgrade we didn't get, I'd just say it, but that's not what happened) and express myself freely.

Besides, Those two "S" synths I do have (especially the one with 9 voices of unison), have me covered very nicely, so - "glass half full" here and no reason to be bitter.

Haha, I hear ya but the more I’ve been exploring the new version and the new functionality like the wave table editor, the more I love it.

[perfumer]

Congratulations! And:

- The mod matrix needs to be bigger - an expand button would do
- Wavetable list needs to have several columns, like the preset browser, not just one.
- A voice mixer would be handy, as already noted.
- The demo should save presets and not load. One month to demo - which can be easily extended, and no way to save hours of work? Why?
- Remove the effing wood panels! It's not even funny.
- Currently selected tab for fx lfos etc is not easily visible, esp. in difficult conditions. Needs a highlight.
- Needs a light skin for sunny days. I mean come on, not everyone is working in complete darkness all the time.

[fgimian]

* More interesting FM options. Currently it seems that you can only use a sine wave as your base for the FM which makes it pretty limited. As a result, I find it much harder to get really cutting sounds with DUNE.

You can use an oscillator as a modulation source at audio rate for that

Thanks for the tip, I'll try it out soon!!

[U-o]

should do something with dune 1 like donation ware or open source or something. That synth was too good to just disappear. Or just sell it really cheap, then everyone would be using dune!

You can buy CM, there is DuneCM (without FX section). If Dune will be released as freeware, it's not fair, because it was on sale days ago and all people that bought it will be f**ked (including me)!

[Ghost Dog]

Haha, I hear ya but the more I’ve been exploring the new version and the new functionality like the wave table editor, the more I love it.

Good luck with it.

[Ingonator]

Wr are talking about the now and i wasnt the one justifying as the first point 200 new presets but the dev. A waverable editor and graphic eq. Wow. Totally worth it to call a new version. Better than improvin the workflow in 2018...
People hate izotope for having versionsjumps feeling like updates and here the:y accept it.... whatever. Lets see what the dev says. Of course he defends his product. Or just ignores it.

On the official page and promotion only a handful new features are promoted and the rest? If the:y are important why not promotw on the front page too? What a bad marketing then.

New features are also mentioned at the original post of this thread.

I was one of the testers and this what i found myself:
- new filter modes including multiple analog modeled filters (e.g. "AM Polaris 24dB", "AM Saturn 24dB" modes which are my favorites and where "AM" means analog modeled)
- dual multimode filter with serial/parallel routing and filter balance knob
- new SWARM Supersaw mode with it'S own LFO for detune modulation
- EQ with graphical display
- dual arpeggiator
- wavetable editor with up to 256 waveforms per wavetable and WAV file import
- import/export of WAV wavetables and single cycles (+ export as *.WT format)
- waveform editor with free drawing and/or addive partials editor (up to 1024 partials/harmonics)
- formula editor for single waveforms (x variable) or full wavetables (x and y variables)
- editing features like e.g. morph between 2 waveforms and volume normalize for single waveforms and/or the full wavetable

Besides that it is NKS compatible including NKS presets and it includes a 64-bit AAX plugin for Pro Tools.