Acidome VST synthesizer : POLL <<< Please!!!

[liars&ashes]

----I had been pretty interested in this one (Acidome) but after trying the demo it just didn't thrill me. To be more specific, I guess it sounded pretty "thin", and the 30-40 presets I bopped through didn't grab me at all, didn't make me want to use them. Other than that, the GUI is a bit so-so, and the cpu usage showed several spikes, which is never a welcome thing, stability is still an issue to most of us I think. Ultimately, it seems like a great idea that isn't finished. For comparison sake, Marimka (which I believe is also made with SM) is fine, no stability issues really, laid out well, and sounds good. Perhaps Acidome just didn't "translate" well from your ears to ours, but you can always go back and adjust it and release an updated version that maybe sounds a bit more signature or something later on.

Jeff

[liqih]

As mentioned before there is alot of market saturation for soft synths. So you may want to wait around developing more ideas until the time is right for you. However you can still try for example: creating a package of Acidome with a successful sequencer program, offering discounts to people who buy another successful audio software product to motivate people to purchase yours, or advertising your synth as the economical yet worthy alternative to other synths on the market and alot more probably. If you could get in the top 20 of the KVR soft synth rankings you'd probably get alot more attention to your synth. Who rates those things anyway? Can anyone right a review on software there? Does anyone think its really a good indicator of the best soft synths or is it kind of outdated?

thanks for your comments Jasonsun, yes you may write your review at for any product you own

[liqih]

Let me wade in with my two cents: There are a lot of synths available and it seems that everyone has a take on what is a good virtual analog emulation/lead type synth.
But what I don't see a lot of are the good realistic simulations. The first time I heard the pianos in Eve I was blown away or the Manytone basses. It's easy to turn these into bleeps and bloops but hard to turn those bleeps into a great sounding piano.

While I love the Eve2 sound engine I have been unable to give up the original because it just sounds so good with minimal tweaking.
It seems much less of a synth than ver.2.

As thing get more and more complex I find myself more attracted to the more minimal synths and effects,and less to the Swiss Army do everything approach. The ones that do one thing well and give me a good idea of what to expect when I open it up. I'm not looking for every session to be an experiment.

You've created some fantastic soft-synths and I thank you for that, but Acidome just didn't move me.

Many thanks for the words MRT, <grin>

I will quote you on the site

As thing get more and more complex I find myself more attracted to the more minimal synths and effects,and less to the Swiss Army do everything approach. The ones that do one thing well and give me a good idea of what to expect when I open it up. I'm not looking for every session to be an experiment.


Acidome is not very complex but it's surely a bit off the line of the others NUSofting synths

[liqih]

----I had been pretty interested in this one (Acidome) but after trying the demo it just didn't thrill me. To be more specific, I guess it sounded pretty "thin", and the 30-40 presets I bopped through didn't grab me at all, didn't make me want to use them. Other than that, the GUI is a bit so-so, and the cpu usage showed several spikes, which is never a welcome thing, stability is still an issue to most of us I think. Ultimately, it seems like a great idea that isn't finished. For comparison sake, Marimka (which I believe is also made with SM) is fine, no stability issues really, laid out well, and sounds good. Perhaps Acidome just didn't "translate" well from your ears to ours, but you can always go back and adjust it and release an updated version that maybe sounds a bit more signature or something later on.

Jeff

Hi Jeff,

you words are very convincing, <grin>
actually you nailed the feeling I got from all the kind feedback in this thread,
both it appears a little unfinished and it didn't "translate" well from my ears to others, (except a few users)

it could be the type of sound, it could be many things, and if even the GUI is not likeable it's even worst, LOL

Ok, I failed! Acidome is good for me and some friends but it's not a winner-

well now I feel better,

maybe I'll improve Acidome, maybe not...
let's see later,

thanks to all of you for the help

[liars&ashes]

----Yeah, not every plug-in can be a winner. On the other hand, Modelonia is great, and something tels me it hasn't really achieved great success although it totally deserves to be noticed.
----I can't imagine trying to guess what people want plug-in wise, it sounds like a crapshoot to me. I'd just do what I thought was good, get it out there, and hope for the best while working on my next one. Which is about all you can do really. I don't look at things (in my life in general) as "failures" so much anymore as maybe just not runaway sucesses ha-ha, but as long as we are all doing something we like and are interested in, how can we really fail then, is it really posssible ?

Jeff

[2windy]

Having a sort out of finances at the moment but this is still a synth I'm looking to buy if I get on with the demo ok. I like the minimal sounds in the demos most, be interested to have a play soon (swapping DAWs right now).