KVR Audio

dalor · Post by **dalor** » Sat Oct 19, 2013 5:14 am

I also would like to manipulate a selection of the spectrum: reverse (left/right) and inverse (top peaks turn to bottom etc..).

ariston · Post by **ariston** » Sat Oct 19, 2013 5:31 am

Neon Breath wrote:@ those you beta-tried it: since I can't try it yet (osx here), what type of music/sounds do you think Spectral is the most suited? Is it realty a bread and butter synth or you see it succeeding more at a particular type? Hopefully, it's going to excel at pads, drones and other atmospheric sounds!

Well, from my two to three hours with it so far, it's quite obvious that it can do a lot. It's very capable of bread and butter, but then I probably wouldn't use it for that (it would almost seem like a waste).

Pads, drones? Definitely. It's easy to add a lot of subtle movement; keep in mind that in addition to being able to modulate the symmetry and phase of the wave, you've got AM/FM/PM routing between the four oscillators and filters. It really is a bit mind-boggling.

Neon Breath · Post by **Neon Breath** » Sat Oct 19, 2013 5:33 am

ariston wrote:
Pads, drones? Definitely. It's easy to add a lot of subtle movement; keep in mind that in addition to being able to modulate the symmetry and phase of the wave, you've got AM/FM/PM routing between the four oscillators and filters. It really is a bit mind-boggling.

Really can't wait to give it a try! Cheers guys for the input.

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Sat Oct 19, 2013 6:00 am

Let's hear some audio!

Bronto Scorpio · Post by **Bronto Scorpio** » Sat Oct 19, 2013 6:09 am

pdxindy wrote:Let's hear some audio!

I didn't really have time to really check this out yet, so I only recorded one simple thing so far: FM Test

I'm just checking out the capabilities as a 4OP FM synth there, so it isn't really representative of the synth!

Cheers
Dennis

bstageboss · Post by **bstageboss** » Sat Oct 19, 2013 3:21 pm

Bronto Scorpio wrote:
pdxindy wrote:Let's hear some audio!
I didn't really have time to really check this out yet, so I only recorded one simple thing so far: FM Test

I'm just checking out the capabilities as a 4OP FM synth there, so it isn't really representative of the synth!

Cheers
Dennis

The way it is set up is turned around from what I'm used to, but once you get the flow of modulation right, it does work quite well (see the "Danger Zone" patch for an example of 4-op FM capability, as well as nostalgia

). I've also been able to create some spectra emulating the sound of simple FM carrier/modulator pairs at various ratios, which could theoretically help mimic more complex algorithms.

As I said, a deep rabbit hole

STV

DJMashbot · Post by **DJMashbot** » Sat Oct 19, 2013 7:44 pm

Is anyone else having issues with projects not loading with the correct sounds? In Sonar X3a, saved a project with 6 instances of Spectral, came back to it and about 3 of the instances had changed to other user presets in my bank. Or is this a beta limitation?

dalor · Post by **dalor** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 9:54 am

A 90s-like demo tune using only Linplug's Spectral (v0.9.7.2 beta), No external effects other than Spectral's, Percussions from D16's Drumazon, No track Eq/compression except limiter on master bus.
https://soundcloud.com/dellodee/linplug ... a-90s-demo

GeorgeZ · Post by **GeorgeZ** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:21 am

Really nice synth. Can get quite deep... just how I like em!

gentleclockdivider · Post by **gentleclockdivider** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 7:18 pm

so peter linsener took the whole concept of ni razor and it's gui ( added some more flexibilitty ....possibilty to create own filter curves ) and is getting away with it ( altough the steepnes of the lp filter is also adjustable on razor but not as flexible ?
great ..
good sytnh
Originality 0/10

GeorgeZ · Post by **GeorgeZ** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 5:12 am

Just because it's additive and has a similar colour scheme doesn't mean it was derived from Razor. It's more like an additive re-imagination of Albino imo.

palebluedun · Post by **palebluedun** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 7:27 am

Spectral and Razor are both additive synthesizers. That's about it, except Razor is a subset of Reactor.

If anything Spectral is an Alpha. That is, a super Alpha. Follow this progression: Alpha (additive oscillators), to Albino (also additive with "analogue" type oscillators with more parameter choices and features) to Morphox (additive oscillators with a true morphing capability). And now, Spectral.

You can download the manuals to all these plug-in's, including Razor and Reactor, and compare for yourself. That way your head won't seem as just another thunder mug.

Read! Don't fantasize.

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 12:23 pm

Maybe somebody with better experience with Morphox has some opinion about Spectral?

I play since some time with the Spectral Beta and the Morphox Demo and cannot achieve the same nice sound from Morphox with Spectral.
Morphox has eg. a 16" SawTooth and 32" Dark Pulse 1 where I can easy set 16" or 32" with one click. With Spectral I must use some of this combined waveforms (where I cannot find a similar sounding wave) and must open the wave editor to pitch some waveform differently.

Neon Breath · Post by **Neon Breath** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 3:32 pm

gentleclockdivider wrote:so peter linsener took the whole concept of ni razor and it's gui ( added some more flexibilitty ....possibilty to create own filter curves ) and is getting away with it ( altough the steepnes of the lp filter is also adjustable on razor but not as flexible ?
great ..
good sytnh
Originality 0/10

I own Razor, and tried beta Spectral and they are very different beasts. Didn't find them similar in term of workflow. Both are additive but very different sound at the end. Razor has features Spectral doesn't have, viceversa.

gentleclockdivider · Post by **gentleclockdivider** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 8:57 pm

I have reaktor and played with razor ..even zebra has basic spectral morphing ..
In both synths spectre and razor ...Everything is done with a sine bank or let's( an I gues zebra to for the spectral filtering and osc effects ) say a huge amount of partials ... , even the filters ...which just re arranges the partials of the osc...so there is no actual filtering going on ..anyway ..
Yes spectre has a lot more options , including the ability to draw your own filters which razor can't ...in razor all the filters are templates made by the programmer for the sine bank ( lp , phaser like , comb ....etc all sn...
so yeah spectre wins there ....
Ohh yeah the gui is verry slow on my computer ..and consumes a lot of cpu ( only the gui ) anyone else have this problem ?

LinPlug Spectral public beta for pc out