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C-note · Post by **C-note** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 5:10 pm

Liero wrote:Chalk me up as another one who's spoilt by the quality of cheap/free stuff today, the asking price is simply too much for me. I'll be interested if it ever hits below 100€.

What Cheap/Free stuff compares to ElectraX? Curious

billcarroll · Post by **billcarroll** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 5:54 pm

C-note wrote:
Liero wrote:Chalk me up as another one who's spoilt by the quality of cheap/free stuff today, the asking price is simply too much for me. I'll be interested if it ever hits below 100€.
What Cheap/Free stuff compares to ElectraX? Curious

There really is nothing available as "cheap/free stuff" that compares to any of the top synths, and I'd throw ElectraX into the top synth category.

I might be crazy, but I think people should be paid for their work.

Sendy · Post by **Sendy** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 6:00 pm

C-note wrote:
Liero wrote:Chalk me up as another one who's spoilt by the quality of cheap/free stuff today, the asking price is simply too much for me. I'll be interested if it ever hits below 100€.
What Cheap/Free stuff compares to ElectraX? Curious

Nothing. Whether you like the sound or not, there is SO much stuff packed into this synth that someone would have to be either idle rich or masochistic to create and release an equivalent for free.

Haraldator · Post by **Haraldator** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 6:23 pm

C-note wrote: What Cheap/Free stuff compares to ElectraX? Curious

Like most softsynths, ElectraX does fall in the cheap/free category - at least to those of us who used to have to pay thousands of dollars for a good synths. A couple of hundred bucks is certainly cheap, and almost free in comparison...

kyodeejay · Post by **kyodeejay** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 6:47 pm

Echoes in the Attic wrote:However I had it once and every problem I reported was met with anything from defensiveness or blaming the DAW to insults and insinuations that I wasn't pro enough to understand how to use it or some garbage. Same kind of thing happened with Galdiator. All of the issues were since fixed but I just can't support that developer, despite the fact that the company has good support folks.

That was my problem 3 years ago with Gladiator and Warmverb, as I wrote before. So I prefer forgot this company, it doesn't matter how good sounding their plugins are.

bludreamsounds · Post by **bludreamsounds** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 7:13 pm

My experience with their support has been positive. I recently contacted them about future Electra X sound sets with some well known sound designers they had worked with when Gladiator was their flagship synth. Suprisingly, they had interest as well, and had inquired, but apparently he was too busy with his own projects.

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 7:20 pm

nobody knows they need it because

1) it is ugly. The demo, anyways, looks and behaves kind of unfinished like. Which is a problem because
2) it's not immediately clear or intuitive how to use nor what it is capable of because workflow is hard for the eye to follow

Too bad because I tried the demo and there were some really neat sounds possible. I would consider it in an instant if I weren't using other things to get the same sound already.

DJMashbot · Post by **DJMashbot** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 7:38 pm

I like the layout of it, it is pretty easy to start shaping a sound and know what is going on. The filters really enable some great sounds, combined with the layering and wave banks. It's certainly not the ugliest synth I've ever used.

I think it's kind of expensive, but I'm pretty sure it will be the next soft synth I buy. Does Tone2 ever have sales?

Sendy · Post by **Sendy** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 7:41 pm

By all accounts I should hate tone2's GUIs but they've grown on me considerably since day one, where I started out "tolerating" them. 3D knobs, long shadows, fake lighting... all elements I find rather tasteless usually.

ElectraX: why aren't more people raving about it?