What are your favs so far ?

[hitman8081]

----Well, Triple Cheese is no Zebra, but it's cool for what it does, low cpu, some options, a guy could do worse eh.
----I finally got around to trying Collide & Play, easier to run/use that I was thinking (dreading, sorry ha-ha). Tough to say how overly "useful" it would/will be, but a very interesting little program. I did manage to stick some one shots in the sounds folder and at least get that far with it, while randomly clicking and holding keys down to make well, random things happen ha-ha. If anyone is/was like me, and kinda not into trying it out cause it's a stand-alone, well, it worked totally fine here, 2 seconds to install, and just use the *Esc* key to close it when yer done. And it's definitely worth 10-15 minutes of your time if nothing else, it's almost like a cheesy but musical tetris, with no rules or something weird ha-ha.

Jeff

i didnt like. imo its a cone blower. the bigger you make the circle the louder the sound is. i tried it and made a medium size bubble then boom!then i made the buble bigger thenm BOOOOM!!!
after that i realized that the bigger the bubble the louder the noise

i think however since this is a vst forum, makimg something standalone is kinda selfish

[liars&ashes]

i didnt like. imo its a cone blower. the bigger you make the circle the louder the sound is. i tried it and made a medium size bubble then boom!then i made the buble bigger thenm BOOOOM!!!
after that i realized that the bigger the bubble the louder the noise

i think however since this is a vst forum, makimg something standalone is kinda selfish

----Well, in a way, that's fair, if the contest was for plug-ins only, then it shouldn't have been allowed at all. But, at least for this first one, the spirit of it is kinda more open eh, but you're still entitled to your view on it, and you should vote how you feel of course.
----I just check in once in a while, make a comment or two, and wander back, just hoping to spur some discussion, and maybe get some more people to try the ones I liked. Same thing we're all doing in this thread I guess.

Jeff

[PTV]

Right now my favorites are Cubix, Repeatler & Grizzly
Too many great options, still haven't decided about 4 & 5

[liqih]

----Well, Triple Cheese is no Zebra, but it's cool for what it does, low cpu, some options, a guy could do worse eh.
----I finally got around to trying Collide & Play, easier to run/use that I was thinking (dreading, sorry ha-ha). Tough to say how overly "useful" it would/will be, but a very interesting little program. I did manage to stick some one shots in the sounds folder and at least get that far with it, while randomly clicking and holding keys down to make well, random things happen ha-ha. If anyone is/was like me, and kinda not into trying it out cause it's a stand-alone, well, it worked totally fine here, 2 seconds to install, and just use the *Esc* key to close it when yer done. And it's definitely worth 10-15 minutes of your time if nothing else, it's almost like a cheesy but musical tetris, with no rules or something weird ha-ha.

Jeff

thanks for trying it Jeff,
"useful" depends of what's your goal I think, <grin>

BTW about the intaller and the installer concern I read in the other thread, the C&P installer is actually a simple selfextracting archive, it doesn't "install" anything, no DLL, no Registry keys

[liqih]

----Well, Triple Cheese is no Zebra, but it's cool for what it does, low cpu, some options, a guy could do worse eh.
----I finally got around to trying Collide & Play, easier to run/use that I was thinking (dreading, sorry ha-ha). Tough to say how overly "useful" it would/will be, but a very interesting little program. I did manage to stick some one shots in the sounds folder and at least get that far with it, while randomly clicking and holding keys down to make well, random things happen ha-ha. If anyone is/was like me, and kinda not into trying it out cause it's a stand-alone, well, it worked totally fine here, 2 seconds to install, and just use the *Esc* key to close it when yer done. And it's definitely worth 10-15 minutes of your time if nothing else, it's almost like a cheesy but musical tetris, with no rules or something weird ha-ha.

Jeff

i didnt like. imo its a cone blower. the bigger you make the circle the louder the sound is. i tried it and made a medium size bubble then boom!then i made the buble bigger thenm BOOOOM!!!
after that i realized that the bigger the bubble the louder the noise

i think however since this is a vst forum, makimg something standalone is kinda selfish

the the bigger the bubble the lower the pitch, <wink>

BTW DC rules point 5. reads

"Your entry may support any plug-in format, or be a stand alone application / utility. "

[liars&ashes]

thanks for trying it Jeff,
"useful" depends of what's your goal I think, <grin>

BTW about the intaller and the installer concern I read in the other thread, the C&P installer is actually a simple selfextracting archive, it doesn't "install" anything, no DLL, no Registry keys

----No need to thank me for trying it, thank you and everyone else for making the stuff.
----I'ma try it again sometime with some different new samples (it woulda been cool to have a quick click-to-replace sample box on the Gui, maybe in the future or something) and see if it sounds any, well, more musically useful. People sample videogames sometimes, so this wouldn't be much different, it's tough to control, but with your own samples in it, it could qualify as custom *glitch* or something.
----Anyways, yeah, it's not gonna replace all your VA synths or anything, but +1 for it being fun and simple at least, that counts for something doesn't it ??

Jeff

[liqih]

yes Jeff, <grin>
maybe to understand what I was aiming for you should listen to the track I made with it
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=152850
or
http://nusofting.liqihsynth.com/collide.htm

[stefancrs]

3 anna. though anna is still very buggy, when it becomes stable its gonna be amazing and hopefuly still free.

Ofcourse it will still be free I will also implement most of the requested features (I am however reluctant towards user-drawn waveforms, I don't really find them very musically usable, when it comes to interfacing with the synth etc. Not in Anna atleast), but after the competition is over. No added features before the deadline!

[jens]

heheh, I was kinda trying to dance around saying that it wasn't too capable or useful, but I guess I'm not alone with that?

can't follow you there, not at all - it does nice pads, it does stuff like Harpsichord, harpish sounds, etc. - it's very different from most other stuff out there and for me it's much more usable that any va synth...

[stefancrs]

heheh, I was kinda trying to dance around saying that it wasn't too capable or useful, but I guess I'm not alone with that?

can't follow you there, not at all - it does nice pads, it does stuff like Harpsichord, harpish sounds, etc. - it's very different from most other stuff out there and for me it's much more usable that any va synth...

Cool basses too!

[jens]

heheh, I was kinda trying to dance around saying that it wasn't too capable or useful, but I guess I'm not alone with that?

can't follow you there, not at all - it does nice pads, it does stuff like Harpsichord, harpish sounds, etc. - it's very different from most other stuff out there and for me it's much more usable that any va synth...

Cool basses too!

Yup!

[brambos]

i think however since this is a vst forum, makimg something standalone is kinda selfish

[Chris Roberson]

heheh, I was kinda trying to dance around saying that it wasn't too capable or useful, but I guess I'm not alone with that?

can't follow you there, not at all - it does nice pads, it does stuff like Harpsichord, harpish sounds, etc. - it's very different from most other stuff out there and for me it's much more usable that any va synth...

Personally I'm more of a VA type myself though (Could you tell by my entry? ), and honestly I could do a lot more with plenty of VA's than I could with this instrument, but again I'm really not a big fan of using combfilter synths, even my two most equipped ones (AAS String Studio and the SteamPipe ensemble that shipped with Reaktor 5) I don't find particularly useful for broad purposes, just an occasional situation or circumstance. That's one area of synthesis where, to me since you're doing it to sound kinda like a string model, it either needs to do the string sounds incredibly well, or it needs to not put on that kind of front and be for doing bizarre unreal sounds in the first place. I'd give respect to Tim Conrardy's bank that came with it, but those are the only usable sounds I found right out of the box. Granted software instruments needn't be all 'studio-in-a-box' mentality, but I found it to be a little too limited by itself and needing of other processes to making it useful.

So yeah, I don't hate it or anything but I seriously don't think this is some phenomenal creation that's made even better by being given away for free. It has it's audience, but I'm not in it.

[liars&ashes]

yes Jeff, <grin>
maybe to understand what I was aiming for you should listen to the track I made with it
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=152850
or
http://nusofting.liqihsynth.com/collide.htm

----Yeah, kinda like some sorta new age glitch ambient or something, I suck at genre labels ha-ha
----The best part, other than just playing it like some mid 80's videogame ha-ha, is sticking your own samples in, to customize it.

Jeff

[Chris Roberson]

yes Jeff, <grin>
maybe to understand what I was aiming for you should listen to the track I made with it
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=152850
or
http://nusofting.liqihsynth.com/collide.htm

Have you thought of like creating a mode with a sort of global tempo? Where at bal generation you define a ratio versus the tempo and that will control the speed of the ball? I think the screen would have to be square instead of rectangular, and the balls would also have to have predefined sizes, but at least it would be a start to having a method of order to the madness.