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arp_laszlo · Post by **arp_laszlo** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:28 pm

ACE is warm - undeniably so. It's actually something that I don't perceive in Zebra, but maybe that's just my ears.

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:33 pm

although I disagree with the *lone* dissenter

, I believe we should appreciate everyone has different tastes...

ppl use to marvel at the kurzweil vast engine and the emu zplane filters.... I never ever understood the marvel or the love.....different strokes for different folks..

now let us take him around the back and show him what warm really means

rsp

arp_laszlo · Post by **arp_laszlo** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:37 pm

I'm a yank, so I'm all down with mob rule. If everyone says so, it must be true - therefore Budweiser is the best beer in the world and ACE is warm no matter what.

Just kidding

mcnoone · Post by **mcnoone** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:39 pm

arp_laszlo wrote:ACE is warm - undeniably so. It's actually something that I don't perceive in Zebra, but maybe that's just my ears.

Hearing perception is different in everyone.
It's natural. So everyones opinions on what something sounds like is always going to be different. Problems only happen when one thinks his own opinion is somehow better than others opinions on what sounds good.

IMO, When someone has as much passion, and drive about creating music software, as Urs does. You can bet what's produced is the best it can be.

I think I'll dl the demo of ACE on that note.

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:40 pm

zvenx wrote:although I disagree with the *lone* dissenter , I believe we should appreciate everyone has different tastes...

True, but I still would like to know what he means. And I wished he wouldn't have said the A-word

Nielzie · Post by **Nielzie** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:42 pm

red37 wrote:
zerocrossing wrote:
lagavulin16 wrote:Ouch, missed the "spaghetti" promo code.

Still happy to have another great synth from Urs though.
Sh*t. Me too. I've been out of town so I didn't get a chance to read the entire thread. Oh well. No biggie I guess, but I wonder why as a previous U-he customer I'm not on a mailing list about such things...

Me Three = me own bloody fault as i just dived straight in without looking elsewhere - anyway, its worth it.

Same here

It's worth the full price though

arp_laszlo · Post by **arp_laszlo** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:52 pm

The one word that keeps popping into my head with regards to ACE is 'real.' There's something distinctly alive about the sound.

Nielzie · Post by **Nielzie** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:56 pm

Okay, maybe a dumb question, I haven't got too much time to play with this little monster (I'm still at work) but where do you set the overall quality to "normal", etc?

rob_lee · Post by **rob_lee** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:57 pm

Nielzie wrote:Okay, maybe a dumb question, I haven't got too much time to play with this little monster (I'm still at work) but where do you set the overall quality to "normal", etc?

top left hand side under synth heading and click on the 3rd box down

Rob

Nielzie · Post by **Nielzie** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:03 pm

rob_lee wrote:
Nielzie wrote:Okay, maybe a dumb question, I haven't got too much time to play with this little monster (I'm still at work) but where do you set the overall quality to "normal", etc?
top left hand side under synth heading and click on the 3rd box down

Rob

Ahh.. I overlooked that

Thanks Rob!

rob_lee · Post by **rob_lee** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:07 pm

btw

Ace is making for some great 808 drum/bass/hat/percussion sounds too

i'll add those to the factory release set..
cross mod/sync and ring mod set to draft gets you great choir pads as iv'e shown in the audio demo.

cheers

Rob

Gucky · Post by **Gucky** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:35 pm

I think that "good" or "bad" sound is very personally.

I for my person am a big fan of Zebra 2,Predator,Albino3 and Blue.
Here I can find the sounds I like to use in my songs.
Zebra2 has hundreds of sounds that I like.

I don't like te sound of Clavia Nordlead, Roland Sonic Cell,Helix (with exception of some very good Bigtone sounds), Largo and Kinisis. That synths have for me a clinical sound.
Why? I don't know.

I think that ACE sounds more like a Nordlead than a Zebra2.
I found only a few sounds that I like to use in my songs so far.
But I think that is not a matter of the quality of ACE its a matter of my personal taste.

ozmoz2008 · Post by **ozmoz2008** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:54 pm

Gucky wrote:... a matter of my personal taste.

My first reaction is: WOW! another hit by URS. That synth have impress me more already than SynthSquad. There is really a feeling of fatness and space that is totally awesome about it. Also it's weird but I didn't see my CPU load that high(I'm on a intel quad Q6850 though). Even at the "acurate" settings the cpu load is really fair(I think that this setting is the best setting)

This is totally worth the price, no question here.(for me anyway)

If you like Predator and Albino, I think you'll find some qualities in this synth that will fulfil your expectations.

2 big thumbs up to URS, again!

PS (I'm also a big fan of Predator and Blue)

ariston · Post by **ariston** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:58 pm

Gucky wrote:I think that "good" or "bad" sound is very personally.

Well, you're right there. It's also very much debatable whether "warm" is such a great description for a sound/synth/ or whatever. You can make any synth sound warm/thin or cold/fat, if you like. ACE can do both.

What's not debatable is the quality. Just listen to the difference between standard and accurate rendering of the sound in ACE. Or how you can really push it in the higher registers without achieving any of those quaint artifacts we've all come to love in our soft synths. Or...

awww, just let it speak for itself.

CANE CREEK · Post by **CANE CREEK** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 4:03 pm

Pretty cool running ACE on a 8 core MAC , i can have 4-6 ACE instances (accurate) taking up 2 cores and still have another 6 cores to run other plugins

, also 'bounce in place' is priceless on Logic9....

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