u-he Repro (Repro-1 & Repro-5) released

[noiseboyuk]

Is this an Onion parody of music threads?

[Cinebient]

Sorry, i got bored and watched Altered Carbon instead of follow this fight..... who won?

[braj]

Is this an Onion parody of music threads?

More like this:

[braj]

Sorry, i got bored and watched Altered Carbon instead of follow this fight..... who won?

How's the sound design for Altered Carbon? It is supposed to be in the future, do they do fat 70's disco grooves still?

[vurt]

Sorry, i got bored and watched Altered Carbon instead of follow this fight..... who won?

wags threw the towel in.

then challenged controlcentre to a dual!
500 music questions, face to face in a battle royale!
in ibiza.

[vurt]

Sorry, i got bored and watched Altered Carbon instead of follow this fight..... who won?

How's the sound design for Altered Carbon? It is supposed to be in the future, do they do fat 70's disco grooves still?

yep, with loads of "rnb specific" sounds.

[bmrzycki]

This thread needs more pictures of cats with synths in space.

[ATS]

Did I just see someone challenge someone to a quiz off in Ibiza? For real?

[braj]

This thread needs more pictures of cats with synths in space.

[wagtunes]

But for 25 years, very few people knew more about what was going on than I did.

But hey, any time you want to do all music trivia on Jeopardy (1964-1989) just say the word. I will mop up the floor with you.

I'm off topic but serious here:

Wags, why don't you think of making a YouTube channel? I think if you use all that you know (also about music, synths, bands ..etc), all that would make interesting videos, taking in consideration that they will be executed well.

For example, instead of making an album about prog rock (or whatever), you make a video about it after some research. You only need a good microphone and a camera, nothing fancy. If I'm a native English speaker I would sure have done that since years ago, but unfortunately I have a strong accent with bad pronunciation in general!

I don't know! I think you should think of it.

Now, about Playing Style vs Synth sounds. They are so related like a cup of tea with milk or cappuccino! You can't say tea is more important than milk! Both together define the result that we drink.

For the topic RePro and how related to the paragraph above, well, I don't think RePro needs commercial presets because it is not that difficult to program. In general the VA subtractive synths are not that complex. Synths that based on additive, FM, wavetable, or other complex synthesis, I believe, those need presets. Modular synths are also complex and in need of presets. But that is for me, maybe for some users they don't want to bother with editing at all and just need an immediate result of an exact sound in a specific song.

I actually thought the same thing about Repro-1 and 5 as far as doing sound libraries. I said who the hell would buy a library for a synth so easy to program? But I did one anyway, for both.

Repro-1 - 15th best selling library.
Repro-5 - 14th best selling library.

That's out of a total of 61 libraries released.

So you know what? I don't think any of us here, myself included, know what will and won't sell. Softube Modular, my best selling library finally going ahead of Serum.

In fact, here's my 10 best selling libraries.

1 Softube Modular
2. Serum
3. Falcon
4. Omnisphere
5. Zebra 2
6. Bazille, Omnisphere 2, Avenger, Arturia V5 Collection (tied)
10. Dune 2

In each case, especially Softube, I had no idea how each set would do. Tone 2 and NI synths do very poorly for me. I don't even bother with them anymore.

[thecontrolcentre]

If someone asking for R&B sound sets pisses you off, we'll I definitely think there is a place for that, even if they can be used in other genres. If you really want those sounds, own Repro but don't know how to program them, having a bank dedicated to just that would be helpful, if not unique. I don't see why this argument ever even started, it is inane.

The argument was not over having an R&B sound set for Repro-5. The argument was over insisting that SUCH a soundset would be exclusively R&B sounds, like nobody else in the world uses them.

Point being, if I were to just make a generic sound set for Repro-5 (I didn't but made a set geared towards 70s prog rock) there would be plenty of sounds in that set that could be used for R&B, rock, whatever.

It is this insistence that R&B musicians magically invented these "R&B exclusive" sounds long before anybody else is absurd. Then, he DEMANDED that I prove to him that rock bands used R&B sounds.

WTF does he think he is?

Wiki's got a whole list of rock bands from the 70s and 80s that I'm sure he's NEVER heard of. Let him do the research himself. I've got better things to do with my time.

And trust me, I could easily do an "R&B set" for Repro-5. But what would be the point? Trying to sell them as "exclusive" R&B sounds to any musician who has any knowledge of music would be an insult to their intelligence. Again, some guy promoting an R&B set and the first sound he plays is Toto's "Africa" is laughable. Yeah, that's an R&B exclusive sound alright.

That's why I'm so pissed off. This insistence that R&B guys somehow invented these new cool sounds that are "R&B Sounds" is a total joke. And when people pass off bad information to others, I call them out on it. Plain and simple.

I'm not even going to waste my time reading that, you shouldn't have wasted your time writing all this nonsense, you should be pissed off at your own damn self for being so petty and making a mountain out of a molehill and wasting your valuable time on this. Be pissed at yourself and stop it, and go make music instead.

do you not care about history?

[thecontrolcentre]

Sorry, i got bored and watched Altered Carbon instead of follow this fight..... who won?

wags threw the towel in.

then challenged controlcentre to a dual!
500 music questions, face to face in a battle royale!
in ibiza.

This Saturday!

[Vortifex]

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[david.beholder]

I'm not even going to waste my time reading that, you shouldn't have wasted your time writing all this nonsense, you should be pissed off at your own damn self for being so petty and making a mountain out of a molehill and wasting your valuable time on this. Be pissed at yourself and stop it, and go make music instead.

He probably makes more music than anyone else on the forum.

Right way.

From my experience: in oreder to become productive I have to quit GS 100% and visiting only 3-4 topics on KVRa two times a week. Saves tons of time.

[braj]

I'm not even going to waste my time reading that, you shouldn't have wasted your time writing all this nonsense, you should be pissed off at your own damn self for being so petty and making a mountain out of a molehill and wasting your valuable time on this. Be pissed at yourself and stop it, and go make music instead.

He probably makes more music than anyone else on the forum.

So you suggest he argue over nothing and get pissed off vs. making even more music? Why do that? If you are on KVR and getting pissed off, it is probably time to go make music or do something else.