KVR Audio

Dasheesh · Post by **Dasheesh** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 11:17 pm

I'm the one that said it seemed to lack a low end for me. That was not in regard to frequency. It goes down that far but it lacked oomph and thickness in the lower end for me personally. That was just filing through the presets, but maybe I was just filing through the wrong presets. It has lovely filters though. They sound very musical to my ears. I like that it's dual filters especially. That's what really makes it worth buying IMO.

Dasheesh · Post by **Dasheesh** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 11:20 pm

Those filters seemed to bring out the mid/highs beautifully to me. That's what I am trying to say. Thats the last I'll say.

fceramic · Post by **fceramic** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 11:36 pm

If the GUI was less painful to look at I would have bought it in a heartbeat. Sounds wonderful, but I like to program my own sounds so I need the GUI to be user-friendly.

Doc Brown · Post by **Doc Brown** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 11:56 pm

Does this sound warm and analog or does the filter(s) sound clinical?

synzh · Post by **synzh** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 3:13 am

Personally I wouldn't call it clinical, the filters sound nice to me but not in a pure digital way; also earlier in this thread, creator mentioned he tried to keep the sound warm, from the start...

V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 2:50 pm

This thing is f**king cool so far.

I am having a blast with the demo and running through all the different modulations. SO far the GUI is fine for me, so I can't really complain here. I think everything makes sense once you get used to it.

I'll have to spend some time with it more to really get a better opinion, but so far I am liking it a lot.

JonSolo · Post by **JonSolo** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 4:14 pm

My finger is so close to the trigger on this one. I wonder if there is ever a sale or coupons or specials..?

There is not a lack of low end, just a different approach to it. The synth sounds warm, at least to my ears. You could always couple your sound with a sub or second synth to get rich deep ends (I do that quite a bit for some of my stuff) or even add some filters or effects to liven it up on the low.

ariston · Post by **ariston** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 4:29 pm

Gotta say, this synth really surprised me. Sounds great, and while I also think the GUI is a bit hard on the eyes, it wouldn't actually deter me from using it - the layout is easy to grasp, and it's very capable. Well done!

Now just give me a good reason to buy another *another* synth!

SciFiArtMan · Post by **SciFiArtMan** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 7:56 pm

poppers wrote:Let the Gui speak for itself..
http://plugmon.org/massive-modular/

Besides being logical, attractive, and easy on the eyes (literally), this Plugmon Zebra interface even ADDS to the functionality! Top it all off with scalability, and it's a GUI dream come true.

I hope this new wonder synth, ArcSyn, can gain perspective from this presentation, especially the scalability function!

And I love the easy effects reordering on ArcSyn! Like LFO delay and fade-in, it should become a standard softsynth feature, IMO!

SciFiArtMan · Post by **SciFiArtMan** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 10:07 pm

BTW, here's a quickie (while on hold for The Phone Co.!!!) proof of concept, if you want to maintain the yellow monochromatic layout.

Another proof with a few other colors added.

And another. Same knobs and buttons, just altered, etc.

Quick and easy changes to existing layout - food for thought... or maybe not.

Please consider scalability - at least large and small for us oldies, occasionally on laptops.

All the best!

DubLifeSD · Post by **DubLifeSD** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 4:13 am

Don't sleep on this one guys, this synth sounds killer! It has a very polished and weighty sound. Love it. Not a big fan of the yellow either, hope we see some re-skins in the future.

Touch The Universe · Post by **Touch The Universe** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 4:27 am

I think the gui is pretty good except for the yellow color scheme. The knobs are fine, just maybe a different color. Everything is good, in fact its good as is, but more options might not hurt?

Oh, and most importantly, the synth sounds great! Good Job!

spirit · Post by **spirit** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 5:41 pm

SciFiArtMan wrote:
poppers wrote:Let the Gui speak for itself..
http://plugmon.org/massive-modular/
Besides being logical, attractive, and easy on the eyes (literally), this Plugmon Zebra interface even ADDS to the functionality! Top it all off with scalability, and it's a GUI dream come true.

I hope this new wonder synth, ArcSyn, can gain perspective from this presentation, especially the scalability function!

And I love the easy effects reordering on ArcSyn! Like LFO delay and fade-in, it should become a standard softsynth feature, IMO!

ArcSynth with the same artistic GUI as PlugMon for Zebra would be absolutely incredible.

I hope the dev returns here and updates us on plans!

Hanz Meyzer · Post by **Hanz Meyzer** » Fri Feb 05, 2016 6:03 pm

Well, I like the current quite a lot, also colors. Mostly the kind of arrangement.

There are some basic rules for modern design:

- No more outlines. This is 80s or 90s. Also no lines for separation
- No gradients
- No photoshop shadows (or at least only very subtile)

urlwolf · Post by **urlwolf** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:02 pm

Given that the shape parameter on the osc can mean many things, some docs would be great. One can always guess using an oscilloscope, but this is hard, unnecessary work; for example, it seems that shape controls the amount of detune on the 'super' family of waves. We would need the same for the fancy new filters, where frequency and res do different things, and guessing is harder. The updated manual could take only a few mins from the dev and could go a long way towards getting the synth better understood.

Better yet, having graphs and animations on osc waves and filter curves (a la say serum, electra2, etc) would be totally killer.

SPC ArcSyn