KVR Audio

christianmusicmaker · Post by **christianmusicmaker** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:01 pm

Nice...

Brittlestem · Post by **Brittlestem** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:10 pm

awol9000 wrote:I like it but again the GUI is almost too small on my 23" moniter. So much detail in there I have to lean forward to see what's going on in the smaller stuff. Sigh...

Besides that so far so good. Long live digital!

Yeh, I love the GUI design - it's better than Blade IMO - but it could really do with being resizable.

dusted william · Post by **dusted william** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:20 pm

christianmusicmaker wrote:Nice...

I love the looks for the trailer..

I wonder how they got it all grainy and old looking.

dw

christianmusicmaker · Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:07 pm

Filters in Adobe After Effects or Vegas were likely used for the Effects. Very well done IMO.

xamido · Post by **xamido** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:37 pm

This thing is crazy. I have yet to understand all of it, but it have pretty good potential right now. But i'm dizzy right now, feels like piloting a submarine.

Shangsean · Post by **Shangsean** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 12:08 am

I'm not into dubstep. Lately I've been trying to do more soundtrack type stuff, but I demoed this for a little bit and I'm really impressed. Although, like others I certainly don't understand it all yet, but I could some really different sounds out of it pretty quickly. I especially like the evolving stuff. The FX sequencer is an interesting idea. All the options in the centre panel allow for quite a bit of creativity. The GUI is one of the coolest I've ever seen. I could see myself using this for some sci-fi type tracks.

I want it.

I can't afford it.

hogo · Post by **hogo** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 1:59 am

Bought this today,the people at sugar bytes are great! Artillery 2 still does a few things nothing else does. I think the strength of this instrument will be when using it for non dubstep stuff in unconventional ways. I'm arpeggiating the crap out of it! Super dope. Hope the CPU gets a little more optimized, but over all it's very cool with a lot of unique character.

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:03 am

That trailer is amazing. Love the track too. Watched it three times now

munchkin · Post by **munchkin** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:18 am

The trailers look great but they seem pretty pointless to me. I was hoping for a more tutorial approach that might explain some of the innovative features and how to use them.

christianmusicmaker · Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:04 am

That might come later. There is usually a trailer video followed by some kind of detailed overview of features in some of their previous plugs. A tutorial video should be on the way...hopefully.

EPtMe001 · Post by **EPtMe001** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:23 am

Well... I'm definitely interested, but I'm not very impressed by the lack of Sugar Byte's support for its current customer base. I mean, I haven't even received a release email about this synth, let alone an introductory price or loyal customer discount... Wot dah!?

C'mon Sugar Bytes, it's your party, when the hell are you going show up?

[Not trolling, I'm just saying support works both ways!]

braj · Post by **braj** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:34 am

I have always gotten great support from Sugar-byte even when I personally am annoying. They are great, i just think they are crazy busy right now with this release.

braj · Post by **braj** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:37 am

Great name for a mono-synth by the way!

hogo · Post by **hogo** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:16 am

this synth is crazy deep. also, i have never been disappointed with their customer service anytime i have contacted them directly.

UncleAge · Post by **UncleAge** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:02 pm

First off let me say that I consider Sugarbytes customer support to be top notch. I have had correspondence with them many times and I put them up there with the best. The email notifications seem to always lag behind the announcements here @ KVR and that goes for all the emails I get from Camel Audio, U-he and just about everyone else.

Second, and most important, I think Cyclops is really cool! Yes, it's a big sound mangling synth. Up until now alchemy was the only synth I had where I could generate a sound and totally screw it up, in a good way though. Cyclops is nothin like Alchemy though. And that's a good thing in my book. Once I figured out that just about everything in the interface related to modulation and sound mangling then it was pretty simple to make my way around. In fact I really, really like the design of the gui. Yes, on my 27" monitor it's a bit small, but it's doable. Those graphs make it easy to see which gadget is modulating which parameter.

I have not gone too deep into the generators to understand where they may be lacking. But I did successfully pull my own samples into the transformer. My only gripe there is that the plugin reads the sample folder when it loads, not when you click to load a new sample. So if you want to play around with more of your own stuff, make sure you put it there before you load the plugin, else you have delete and reload it. (definitely not a show stopper)

The video game is a bit gadgety but it does serve a purpose so I can't give it a demerit.

Wobble bass is not something I use much of. Fun stuff, no doubt. But I think the plugin is a bit more than that. The feedback and usability of the middle section with the graphs along with the FX sequencer is really unique, IMO. I got sounds out of Cyclops that it would take a while to do otherwise. And I liked what I got. I am pretty sure this plug will find its way into my plugin folder before the year is out. I played with it for 5 hours straight and only stopped because I couldn't stay awake any longer. That has happened since I bought Alchemy.

Cyclop 'Wobble' Synthesizer from Sugar Bytes