Firstly, well done, you are an excellent sound designer!himalaya wrote:Sure.hakey wrote:
How about replicating some Diva basses? In particular, any of the following:
HS Bass Nine
Here's that HS bass Nine preset. You hear both synths.
http://www.electric-himalaya.com/stuff/ ... Saurus.wav
Can't do any more at the moment as the kids are screaming and want to go to the park.
Secondly I think this shows the difference nicely. In many other patches I'm sure the difference could be more pronounced but they do sound quite similar here. The difference is that the DIVA clip (the second one i could tell immediately), has that extra body that you don't often find in soft synths. The DIVA clip sounds sounds like hardware, the Saurus clip sounds like a very good VA soft synth.
What's interesting to me is that people focus so much on the filter. Perhaps I'm wrong but I have to believe that the oscillator modelling has a great deal to do with the differences. I would say the tone2 filters are well on the same level as the u-he ones. They are both excellent. Although I prefer the u-he feedback and drive I think). However I feel where DIVA really shines is the oscillator modelling which have a lot more body, and this really shows in Bass patches and the mid range range depth of some pads and pads. I just don't think, when you get down to the nitty gritty detail, that saurus quite gets there as much. But for the lower cpu usage it does quite well. It does have a fair bit more cpu than ElectraX though I was surprised to see in some Saurus patches. And I really think you can get most of these sounds from ElectraX too.
But when it comes down to it, as someone said way earlier in this thread, we are awash in great soft synths these days and people need to figure out that the value of a synth isn't in features or necessarily particular characteristics like Analog authenticity, but how inspiring it is. I find tone2 synths are fairly inspiring so I have to give them credit for that. I still say the saurus sound is remarkably similar to gladiator and ElectraX VA capabilities, and I find to sound rather digital personally (with a nice modern warm sound though) but one of the biggest ways I judge a synth is like the old hardware design paradigm: How much variety is possible with the least amount of controls. In this regards I think Saurus does quite well. I wish they would figure out how to have a tie in an arp though.
This time i knew not to read the text 
