KVR Audio

jsd · Post by **jsd** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:53 pm

Nepheton is good for what it is but it doesn't sound anything like an 808.

I can't afford Wave Alchemy but the demos of that sound fantastic. (They are also having a summer sale right now btw)

This is my pick for price/performance: http://www.goldbaby.co.nz/tape808.html
Can't beat the price or sound quality. Only thing it's lacking is round robin.

electro · Post by **electro** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:59 pm

jsd wrote:Nepheton is good for what it is but it doesn't sound anything like an 808.

Really? The Nepheton page has 3 audio clips of their hardware 808 vs Nepheton and its about 85% there.

jsd · Post by **jsd** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:03 pm

electro wrote:
jsd wrote:Nepheton is good for what it is but it doesn't sound anything like an 808.
Really? The Nepheton page has 3 audio clips of their hardware 808 vs Nepheton and its about 85% there.

Well, it's just my opinion obviously. Other opinions are available

breakmixer · Post by **breakmixer** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:08 pm

jsd wrote:Other opinions are available

Where can I get these?

breakmixer · Post by **breakmixer** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:11 pm

electro wrote:
jsd wrote:Nepheton is good for what it is but it doesn't sound anything like an 808.
Really? The Nepheton page has 3 audio clips of their hardware 808 vs Nepheton and its about 85% there.

Electro, I prefer Drumazon to Nepheton as emu's go, I like Nepheton but Transistor Revololution knock it for six soundwise as it's the real unit deeply sampled, but it's an effin' ram hog in K5.

cytospur · Post by **cytospur** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:11 pm

breakmixer wrote:
jsd wrote:Other opinions are available
Where can I get these?

I think there was a Group Buy sometime last week. I guessed you missed it.

breakmixer · Post by **breakmixer** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:15 pm

cytospur wrote:
breakmixer wrote:
jsd wrote:Other opinions are available
Where can I get these?
I think there was a Group Buy sometime last week. I guessed you missed it.

I've had a few in my time already but no one was interested in them when I tried to offload them - not getting caught out again, glad I missed the Group Buy!

Who needs more opinions!

electro · Post by **electro** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 12:10 am

jsd wrote:
electro wrote:
jsd wrote:Nepheton is good for what it is but it doesn't sound anything like an 808.
Really? The Nepheton page has 3 audio clips of their hardware 808 vs Nepheton and its about 85% there.
Well, it's just my opinion obviously. Other opinions are available

Its a gross exaggeration. To say it doesn't sound anything like the real machine just is wrong. Its a decent synthesized emulation that hasn't been perfected.

bitcrush01 · Post by **bitcrush01** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 9:19 am

Looks interesting. Can you provide another faster download link? thanks!

Alex Cremers · Post by **Alex Cremers** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 3:24 pm

After I loaded the vst, it doesn't show up in Cubase when I want to assign it to a midi channel.

ENV1 · Post by **ENV1** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 5:00 pm

breakmixer wrote: However on this UI I saw far more parameters(knobs) than the real 808 at a glance - this is off putting as for me personally an emulation is there to replace something I could not afford and I'd want a 1:1 emulation that reacts the same as the hardware mostly,

In that case i would just leave the extra params on their defaults.

Anyhow i for one am glad that theyre there. Extends the possibility spectrum quite a bit, and thats never wrong. Like in this example here, where the VR-08 is mimicking an SDS-V. Fully dry signal, hosted and recorded in SAVIHost, sequenced by ERA. Sounds convincingly Simmonsy, doesnt it? (Hats and Rim excepted of course.)

David Else · Post by **David Else** » Sun Nov 10, 2013 5:31 pm

Thanks ALIPAPA, this is brilliant! It also has 909 sounds now!

The download did take hours from the UK, so a mirror would be good, dropbox?

There is a nag screen to the free version that comes at the start and sometimes when you open the GUI, but it doesn't stop you using it at full quality and is a small price to pay to get this free.

The 'smooth attack' and 'accurate process' do make things sound better, but from the Japanese translation i am still not sure what they do?

I thought the 'analog' button did sound good on snare, but on the hats was not good, too much and not subtle enough. Maybe tune it differently for the different sounds?

I am not sure if the sounds are 100% raw samples when you change the pitch or are pitch shifted? If they are pitch shifted a nice extra feature would to be able to ONLY use samples and not have them pitch shifted... 'samples only' button to tick.

Ultimate update would to have the toms and bassdrum samples tuned to pitch on the original hardware with a digital tuner and re-sampled. The GUI could then select a/b/c/d/e/f/g etc...

anyway, THANKS again!

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Sun Nov 10, 2013 5:41 pm

cytospur wrote:
Kriminal wrote:Way to go washing this down the drain with d16 chat
You must be new around here. Welcome to KvR

TR-808 Simulator. SOooo Real!