KVR Audio

kelvyn · Post by **kelvyn** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 10:05 pm

bharris22 wrote:Bought for $55.90 at Wavesuniverse - thanks!

How did you do that? I just tried but the coupon didn't work...

tonedef71 · Post by **tonedef71** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 10:08 pm

bharris22 wrote:Bought for $55.90 at Wavesuniverse - thanks!

Wish I had seen the postings about WavesUniverse here.

I purchased a license of Waves Codex for $9 more from AudioDeluxe for $65 using coupon code EA50COD along with AudioDeluxe's regular special monthly coupon discount.

Well, at least I still didn't end up paying full price for it.

sonicpowa · Post by **sonicpowa** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 10:49 pm

kelvyn wrote:
bharris22 wrote:Bought for $55.90 at Wavesuniverse - thanks!
How did you do that? I just tried but the coupon didn't work...

http://www.wavesuniverse.com/custom_purchase/

Naenyn · Post by **Naenyn** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 11:17 pm

hibidy wrote:wavesuniverse is your friend, they are honoring the coupon and you'll get it for 55.90. You can't beat that with a stick!

Thanks for that tip! I hadn't heard of wavesuniverse before. You just cost me $56.

UltimateOutsider · Post by **UltimateOutsider** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 11:21 pm

hibidy wrote:wavesuniverse is your friend, they are honoring the coupon and you'll get it for 55.90. You can't beat that with a stick!

Aw man!!!

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 12:05 am

Naenyn wrote:
hibidy wrote:wavesuniverse is your friend, they are honoring the coupon and you'll get it for 55.90. You can't beat that with a stick!
Thanks for that tip! I hadn't heard of wavesuniverse before. You just cost me $56.

haha! Hope you tested it first though, it's hungry.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 12:06 am

UltimateOutsider wrote:
hibidy wrote:wavesuniverse is your friend, they are honoring the coupon and you'll get it for 55.90. You can't beat that with a stick!
Aw man!!!

Sorry, I try to be as fast as I can

bharris22 · Post by **bharris22** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 12:34 am

Yep - sorry, just saw these questions. Wavesuniverse is definitely your friend here. Just e-mail them and they will usually do the best they can with any available coupons (plus everyday prices that are lower than those on the Waves website).

opeth13 · Post by **opeth13** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 12:55 am

on a side note, just watched the Cthulhu intro vid on Steve's site and WOW!@#!@! thing is friggin sweet. Makes me want to buy his other products.

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 12:58 am

Waves' first synth was terrible. Codex has improved?

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 1:55 am

I love element.

ATS · Post by **ATS** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 2:00 am

hibidy wrote:I love element.

Yeah I think it is great sounding synth. Codex is amazing though.

Hadrondrift · Post by **Hadrondrift** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 8:21 am

My conclusion from following this thread: To create a good synth, you may need a nice UI, you may need nice oscillators, you may need to have a nice sound, you may need a nice set of filters. But nothing is more important than to have the right set of vouchers.

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 9:08 am

Hadrondrift wrote:My conclusion from following this thread: To create a good synth, you may need a nice UI, you may need nice oscillators, you may need to have a nice sound, you may need a nice set of filters. But nothing is more important than to have the right set of vouchers.

This could be true

UltimateOutsider · Post by **UltimateOutsider** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 2:42 pm

Hadrondrift wrote:But nothing is more important than to have the right set of vouchers.

To be fair, I normally only buy something if I think I have an actual immediate use for it. However, if I see something that looks like it MIGHT be useful at some point and vouchers/sales put it into a price range where I wouldn't regret the purchase if I ended up not using it, then I will take advantage of it.

If not for the intro price and voucher, my reaction to Codex would have been, "Looks pretty nice. Don't need it for any current projects. Pass." just like it was with Serum.

All that said, I spent a little time with Codex last night. It is indeed very accessible; I love it when you can just start designing on a synth immediately without reading a word of documentation. I'm not much of an arp user, but I quite like the design of the one in Codex. Is it more elaborate than the one from Element? I need to go back and have a look at that.

Soundwise- well the sample import feature seems incredibly important. Not a lot of the bundled wavetables leaped out at me in a creative way, but I will admit that I'm probably just not very creative when it comes to WT programming. It's not like subtractive synthesis where if you think it you can program it. So, nice presentation, cool arp, probably good potential for people willing to invest time creating/curating wavetable samples. But I don't see an immediate use for it in my work.

Codex vs Serum