Audio Damage releases "Basic" substractive virtual synth

[Sendy]

Ok, I love the filters.

There is one weird aspect to the modulation in the synth: pitch modulation isn't consistent across the keyboard. So if you set up a semitone trill in the middle of the keyboard, it'll play a different interval in the bass and treble range. Not a huge problem, but it's the first time I've noticed a synth do this.

[Tricky-Loops]

Is there a "back-to-simplicity" wave going on that people are praising Basic and even simple Flowstone synths like Crio?

I don't see anything special in Basic...except the nice cockpit GUI...

[No_Use]

To be honest, I don't get at all why they made it monophonic only.

So as soon as a targeted "educational market" user (or actually any user of this synth for that matter) wants to make something polyphonic he / she has to look for another synth.

Hmm... or do I just not understand the thinking behind it ?

[Sendy]

Is there a "back-to-simplicity" wave going on that people are praising Basic and even simple Flowstone synths like Crio?

I don't see anything special in Basic...except the nice cockpit GUI...

The only thing I really like about it is the filters and the overdrive. If it wasn't Audio Damage, whose stuff I own most of, I probably wouldn't have picked it up at all. But as it is, it's nice to have.

[Tricky-Loops]

Sometimes I'm wondering where people who don't have a 9-to-5 job get so much money from that they can buy everything, even the simplest synths, whilst I have to work hard just to get a few EUR a hour to buy some food from it...

When I lived together with my parents, I had to pay monthly rent for them, even if I helped them 5 hours every day - they didn't gave me any money...

[thecontrolcentre]

Sometimes I'm wondering where people who don't have a 9-to-5 job get so much money from that they can buy everything, even the simplest synths, whilst I have to work hard just to get a few EUR a hour to buy some food from it...

Who are you referring to?

[Tricky-Loops]

Sometimes I'm wondering where people who don't have a 9-to-5 job get so much money from that they can buy everything, even the simplest synths, whilst I have to work hard just to get a few EUR a hour to buy some food from it...

Who are you referring to?

Sorry, I was just about to explode, usually I try to ignore all these buy-this-and-that-and-here's-finally-another-sale threads...

[Sendy]

Sometimes I'm wondering where people who don't have a 9-to-5 job get so much money from that they can buy everything, even the simplest synths, whilst I have to work hard just to get a few EUR a hour to buy some food from it...

When I lived together with my parents, I had to pay monthly rent for them, even if I helped them 5 hours every day - they didn't gave me any money...

Sorry if my activity on the forum makes you think life is unfair :/

I care for a mother with M.E., a father who had a stroke recently and hasn't fully recovered, and an uncle who is strongly disturbed. The Government recognizes this as a job so while I'm not at a "9 to 5" as it were, I get an allowance, and since I rarely by anything other than synths and basic essentials, rarely go out due to social isolation, and pay a slightly reduced rent, and don't have the risk of "being out on my ear", I can afford to spend what money I get on the one thing that gives me a break and joy in my life.

[Tricky-Loops]

Sometimes I'm wondering where people who don't have a 9-to-5 job get so much money from that they can buy everything, even the simplest synths, whilst I have to work hard just to get a few EUR a hour to buy some food from it...

When I lived together with my parents, I had to pay monthly rent for them, even if I helped them 5 hours every day - they didn't gave me any money...

Sorry if my activity on the forum makes you think life is unfair :/

I care for a mother with M.E., a father who had a stroke recently and hasn't fully recovered, and an uncle who is strongly disturbed. The Government recognizes this as a job so while I'm not at a "9 to 5" as it were, I get an allowance, and since I rarely by anything other than synths and basic essentials, rarely go out due to social isolation, and pay a slightly reduced rent, and don't have the risk of "being out on my ear", I can afford to spend what money I get on the one thing that gives me a break and joy in my life.

Well, that's at least positive that the state recognizes this as job, my parents are disabled far more than 50 %, too, but I didn't get any "compensation", and I had to leave them (again) 1 1/2 years ago because I couldn't bear it anymore to play the house wife every day whilst being treated like a nothing...

[/rant]

But now back to the Basic(s)...

[bailees7irish]

And that, folks, is how you derail a thread.

[fluffy_little_something]

Sometimes I'm wondering where people who don't have a 9-to-5 job get so much money from that they can buy everything, even the simplest synths, whilst I have to work hard just to get a few EUR a hour to buy some food from it...

When I lived together with my parents, I had to pay monthly rent for them, even if I helped them 5 hours every day - they didn't gave me any money...

Well, life is not always fair. I know you got your own problems, but at the end of the day I guess Sendy is more limited because of her mother's disease. You are free to move somewhere else, make use of the offers out there, and get back on track. It is up to you, unlike with Sendy. I used to work at a retirement home and know what an exhausting, and sometimes depressing duty it is to take care of a seriously sick person you love and know will never recuperate. So leave her that little joy in her life, will you
And many of us are here on message boards because we have no 9-5 jobs, and many of use suffer from a certain amount of social isolation for one reason or another. Me too for professional reasons. Being a freelancer working for global customers I am tied to my computer from 8 to 7, so while I am waiting for possible work I have a lot of free time that I can't spend outside, though. Hence I am on message boards a lot to keep in contact with the world. And you will hate me because I only have to work for an hour or so to earn the money to buy Basic And my parents never wanted a single cent of rent from me, and I am healthy and happy Life is not fair...

[Tricky-Loops]

You are free to move somewhere else, make use of the offers out there, and get back on track. It is up to you, unlike with Sendy.

It's not that easy. But then I never said - and I'll never say - how and where I'm living at the moment... I have enough money for food if I save every cent and buy the cheapest food, but I wouldn't call it life - it's rather a survival, I'm on stand-by...

Anyway, as I said, I didn't want to derail the thread, I just thought "Damn, so many people are praising Basic as if it were something innovative, are they so rich to buy every 3-OSC synth out there just because the GUI is cool?"

I have a few Audio Damage plugins, and I like them (and they're kinda innovative) but I cannot find anything special or innovative at Basic...if it were something like Replicant, I'd praise it, but I even have enough free synths with more features than Basic...

[Frantz]

but I even have enough free synths with more features than Basic...

Basic's main feature is its lack of features.

Having said that, I am not going to buy it because I have enough plugins that I haven't fully explored.

[samsam]

And that, folks, is how you derail a thread.

TBH, that 'derail' was actually more human and reasonable than much of the stuff that gets posted _on_ topic on KVR.

[Sendy]

If you want to get angry, get angry at those who made the current work/money/finance system so blisteringly unfair, not someone essentially slightly more well-off than you. I am at best one or two bad luck cases away from being out on my ear, just as most of us are. When my family peg it I'll be unexperienced, with little on my CV and no retirement funds, and will have ceased to be useful to the Government. I'll probably be fed to the machine to be chewed up, like everyone else is who isn't needed.

Personally, I think Capitalism in it's current implimentation has had it's day. It's no longer useful to anyone except a select few. I can only hope and pray that the machine is turned off before myself and those that I love ever have to reach it's "business end".