can someone explaing the roland v-synth to me...
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- KVRian
- 955 posts since 18 Apr, 2006
Can someone explain the roland v-synth to me... What does it have that something like ableton live doesn't. I like the sounds it makes, but I'm not sure what makes it. Is it the effects? What does it do that other programs can't (if anything).
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- KVRist
- 360 posts since 31 Jan, 2004 from SoCal
Comparing Ableton Live to the Roland V-Synth would be like comparing apple's to orange's.
The V-Synth is basically a synth that has the ability to let you load in your own wav/aiff files. So you could load in a drum loop you made in Ableton Live (or whatever) and tweak it. It does not contain any type of real DAW multitrack ability like you would get in Live/Logic/etc... It does sound really cool though. The V-Synth will have custom effect's, filter's and synthesis engine's that you will not find in a software sequencer (yet... that I have seen). It would be awesome to sample it inside Ableton Live.
Ableton Live on the other hand is a sequencer, which you could use to sequence virtual instruments and record real-time audio recordings. You could do things in Ableton Live that are impossible to do in the V-Synth and vise versa.
The V-Synth is basically a synth that has the ability to let you load in your own wav/aiff files. So you could load in a drum loop you made in Ableton Live (or whatever) and tweak it. It does not contain any type of real DAW multitrack ability like you would get in Live/Logic/etc... It does sound really cool though. The V-Synth will have custom effect's, filter's and synthesis engine's that you will not find in a software sequencer (yet... that I have seen). It would be awesome to sample it inside Ableton Live.
Ableton Live on the other hand is a sequencer, which you could use to sequence virtual instruments and record real-time audio recordings. You could do things in Ableton Live that are impossible to do in the V-Synth and vise versa.
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- KVRAF
- 13140 posts since 7 May, 2006 from Southern California
I own one and have posted in several threads like this. It is difficult to compare the V-Synth to software because it's strengths lie in it's user interface.
The time stretching and pitch/formant shifting are more comparable to Melodyne than Live (which is my DAW of choice) but all of these features can be tweaked live and in time with the current tempo (or not if you choose). The effects are exceptional and act on the samples/synth engine on a per key basis, meaning the tone of a distortion model can be scaled across a key range.
Most of what can be done in the V-Synth can be done (though with different character) in software, but it always took several pieces of software to be able to achieve the same results.
You can slice loops inside the V-Synth with the touch screen (which IMO is worth the price on it's own) and have the slices stretched across a key range, ala Recycle.
The speed of a loops playback can be controled by a knob or by the time trip pad, without the loop losing sync with the master tempo.
The synth engine is pretty high quality and can be used as an FM source for samples.
Non-Tonal samples can be made tonal with comb/sideband filters which are tuned to key ranges.
The list goes on, but like I said most of these things can be achieved if you have Ableton Live + Krishna + Kontakt + Ableton Sampler + etc. I have all of these and still use them but I find that the V-Synth has become the peice of gear I go to when I want to get tripped out sounds that are otherwise impossibly tedious to reproduce in software.
The time stretching and pitch/formant shifting are more comparable to Melodyne than Live (which is my DAW of choice) but all of these features can be tweaked live and in time with the current tempo (or not if you choose). The effects are exceptional and act on the samples/synth engine on a per key basis, meaning the tone of a distortion model can be scaled across a key range.
Most of what can be done in the V-Synth can be done (though with different character) in software, but it always took several pieces of software to be able to achieve the same results.
You can slice loops inside the V-Synth with the touch screen (which IMO is worth the price on it's own) and have the slices stretched across a key range, ala Recycle.
The speed of a loops playback can be controled by a knob or by the time trip pad, without the loop losing sync with the master tempo.
The synth engine is pretty high quality and can be used as an FM source for samples.
Non-Tonal samples can be made tonal with comb/sideband filters which are tuned to key ranges.
The list goes on, but like I said most of these things can be achieved if you have Ableton Live + Krishna + Kontakt + Ableton Sampler + etc. I have all of these and still use them but I find that the V-Synth has become the peice of gear I go to when I want to get tripped out sounds that are otherwise impossibly tedious to reproduce in software.