What modern synthesizer would you like to see emulated in software?

[.jon]

I guess one can get over the missing patch cables if one just keeps working with it.

Yes and no, I try to keep a standard way of wiring the modulations, but when coming back to older patches I can't avoid going to structure view and clicking modules to trace the routing. And sometimes just two mod inputs can be limiting - one part of Blocks that's not perfect.

Euro Reakt, and other user submitted Blocks, are what seals the deal for me:

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... show/9093/

Building racks from hundreds of wonderful modules is just fantastic. At the current price of Reaktor 6, it could be quite the challenge to try to do the virtual eurorack thing better... but a closed, yet flexible west coast system would surely be inspiring and allows for more creatively rewarding solutions than simple module swapout.

[egbert101]

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[BasariStudios]

Timber Wolf!

[SODDI]

I'm more into repetitive structures.

Well there you go-- I dislike repetition! But what I liked about Morton's talk is the central role of his controller to fulfil his "intention" to quickly and easily explore the many continua between notes and timbres. That goes hand-in-hand with the problem of notation of those hardware synth sounds in performance (and Subotnick was involved that exploration too). So perhaps software emulations of modern hardware should emulate more than just the circuits??

There isn't just Subotnick. Suzanne Ciani is a master of the Buchla. Here she is in performance earlier this year. The control voltage patch cords are the red, yelloe and blue cables (banana cables, they can be stacked), the audio patch cords are thin grey cables.
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I can't think about this properly because I am perpetually addled, but maybe an idea would be to completely separate the control "surface" from the audio.

[chk071]

Amazing that she can find the instrument under all those cables. Totally uninspiring to me, i must admit. But, each to his like.

[pdxindy]

Ok, Reaktor Blocks are depressingly good. They're the equivalent of a late harvest. Very sweet.

I guess one can get over the missing patch cables if one just keeps working with it.

Might spend some more time with it, it's certainly as much a benchmark as Softube for that kind of thing.

Reaktor Blocks are really impressive sound-wise. I find them annoying to work with. I wish it were a standalone modular synth... not in the Reaktor shell which I find clunky to work with... both for wiring and for saving presets

[egbert101]

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[egbert101]

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[masterhiggins]

There was a podcast of ladies in the history of synthesisers, going back as early as the fifties. There is a surprising amount of material out there in the avante-garde/minimalism electronic music scene. I'll try and hunt it down for anyone interested.

EDIT:

Found it. Seven hours of electronic bliss.

Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938- 2014)
http://www.openculture.com/2015/06/hear ... -2014.html

Original link here with playlists:
http://ubu.com/sound/leidecker.html

We really need more transgenders making electronic music.

[Michael L]

We really need more transgenders making electronic music.

and more adolescent wankers too, Master Higgins. Everyone is welcome!

[Michael L]

[masterhiggins]

We really need more transgenders making electronic music.

and more adolescent wankers too, Master Higgins. Everyone is welcome!

Nah, some people are more welcome than others. I forgot what the SJW inclusion hierarchy is. I'm Mexican and have Aspergers. Not sure where I fall on that list yet.

[Michael L]

I checked. Sorry, you're not on the list. Mexicans with Aspergers are not a minority (but I am half-Polish so I qualify, even without ADD)

Edit: And, some people much higher on that list are very generous in sharing their midi files and other resources with lower-ranking folk such as I: http://www.wendycarlos.com/resources.html

[JoeCat]

I guess one can get over the missing patch cables if one just keeps working with it.

Yes and no, I try to keep a standard way of wiring the modulations, but when coming back to older patches I can't avoid going to structure view and clicking modules to trace the routing. And sometimes just two mod inputs can be limiting - one part of Blocks that's not perfect.

Euro Reakt, and other user submitted Blocks, are what seals the deal for me:

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... show/9093/

Building racks from hundreds of wonderful modules is just fantastic. At the current price of Reaktor 6, it could be quite the challenge to try to do the virtual eurorack thing better... but a closed, yet flexible west coast system would surely be inspiring and allows for more creatively rewarding solutions than simple module swapout.

I've never had a hardware modular, but it seems to me the creative workflow of Reaktor is different because of the number of blocks available and ability to save layouts as ensembles. In hardware you may have 3 filters racked up and swap by cabling; in Reaktor your ensemble may have one filter and you can experiment by swapping out the (many, many) other's available - you can save a given architecture as an ensemble and use it as a template. Hardware is fixed module / flexible routing, Reaktor (can be) fixed routing / flexible modules. Not that they are always 1:1 compatible, but close enough for a lot of blocks to be easy enough. Of course, it's still a bit wonky moving to structure view to replace that LFO cutoff modulation with OSC 2 out, etc., but having two modulators available per block helps.

Since you can change the text for panel elements (and there are text panels) you can document the architecture to help from needing to swap out to structure view to see what's going on, though I do wish the A/B mods would show their connections as labels, even if it's tiny text.

In any case, it's a dream come true for those of us who want to play in that sandbox but don't quite have the money / space to do so.

Back to the OP - I haven't read through the whole thread but I'm sure someone has said Virus? I'm not sure if Access would be bastardizing their own hardware sales by selling a vst port but I think they could charge a premium price and still see good sales - it's a legend.

[zerocrossing]

This one (yes, it's a $13,000 mono-synth):

http://cdm.link/2016/04/this-is-what-a- ... unds-like/





Good luck getting any CPU to manage though.

Oddly that sounds surprisingly like my Neptune 2. I've never heard software that nails it, either. (Though, System 100 might get you in the neighborhood)