ManyOne Deluxe VST
For Mac and PC
Powered by a 4 GB handpicked sample library content with 280 multisample instruments, over 400 Presets.
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Euro 79.00 and available now for an advertising price of only Euro 59.00 for order until March 21, 2012.
You find the details on the product page here
ManyOne Deluxe VST
The new ManyOne Deluxe VST is a bit different compared to others, so I took the chance to ask Klaus P. Rausch, who is the man behind all our sound products, a few questions about details.
Julia: The credo of this new sound product is Back to the Roots, what's the idea?
Klaus: I'm doing sounds for synthesizers since so many years and a while ago I found out, that there is a trend to overfeature them with parameters and menu pages. This depends both hardware and software instruments. Although I like many timbre shaping options it can be quite disturbing though, especially when I am writing songs. Also the learning curve is time consuming, sometimes there are owner's manuals with hundreds of pages and even updates with new docs. This can kill creativity.
Julia: But less parameters means poor sound, isn't it?
Klaus: Not at all. Compare it with a Minimoog, a limited set of parameters, but the right ones, those that matter. And as ManyOne Deluxe is a sample-based synthesizer a smart sampling concept makes the most part of the sound results.
Julia: So what's the sound content and how do we work with it?
Klaus: A 4 GB sample content with a total of 280 multisample instruments. Well sampled and compiled as a handpicked selection of the really cool ones, they work in typical songwriter productions in the recording studio and on stage. No posers, no gimmicks, no fillers. And an easy understandable set of about 400 Presets. That's important too when working on songs as we want to find the right one quickly as possible.
Julia: So few GBs for 280 mulitsamples?
Klaus: Yes, the sound result counts, not the number of sometimes useless Velocity Switches or stereo files, where the original instrument is even not stereo, just the room where it is recorded. The advantages are quick program changes and no unnecessary RAM occupation of the computer.
Julia: And the few synthesizer parameters are enough for any sound changes when a musician want some?
Klaus: Absolutely. The multisample is already "the sound", I considered that when creating the samples. Only the fine shaping remains, I mean Attack and Release times and things like that. I talked a lot with musicians and how they work and the most don't program new sounds, they just want to make some fine tuning like the Strings attack time should be faster or slower, the same about the release time and so on. Or the transpose to one octave higher or lower, or the sound must be a bit smoother than the Preset is. The ManyOne Deluxe synthesizer engine provides exactly this, and all parameters are even on just one page, no subpages or extra menus. And if someone is not too skilled in sound programming, as the most musicians are, the built-in Sound Wizard provides templates for the typical basic categories like Pads, Piano, Lead Synth and a few more.
Julia: What about the Effects section?
Klaus: Actually there is no. In terms of that what other synthesizers provides in these days. But again this is great, the DAWs are full of effects, so why stressing the CPU with double effects processing. Usually several instruments of an arrangement are using the same effects like Reverb, just the intensity might be different. But ManyOne Deluxe comes with a small Effects section though and only those that I count as part of the sound. In this case it means Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Tremolo, Echo and Distortion. If someone want a totally different effects setting than I did in a Preset he can also use the built-in FX Wizard, like the Sound Wizard it provides typical templates.
Julia: Back to the sound content, what exactly is it?
Klaus: There is a full Presets and Sample Library Content listing PDF available as online preview and optional even downloadable on the product page of our company website. In short the focus is on all those really useful sounds for songwriters, taken from 70s and 80s synthesizer legends like Yamaha CS80, Minimoog, Korg MonoPoly and many more, also Solina String Ensemble. Many especially created fat layer sounds, also standard instruments like CP80 Electric Grand, B3 Hammond and so on. Of course a few Ethnic Instruments to spice up a track. A decent set of sounds for the keyboard player who is using his hands to play on the keyboard.
Julia: As far as I know the sampleplayer engine VST is no new development, isn't it?
Klaus: Right on! It's a proven, tried and totally tested sample-based software synthesizer engine and exactly that's it what I want. It even works on older computers, no need to own the hippest latest one. No known bugs, no frequent feature updates which means, no new learning curve every few months. And also not a fancy but CPU hungry software. A good workhorse and I think that's pretty spectacular nowadays: A musician-friendly instrument, that simply does it's seamless job. So you remember that I instructed you to ask Paul Brown from www.manytone.com to provide his cool ManyOne VST engine for my new product and I am happy that he liked the idea and teamed up with us for that new ManyOne Deluxe version.
Julia: Any audio tracks, where the musicians can check how it sounds?
Klaus: Sure, I did two audio tracks and played a few Presets in the same way as every musician is testing a new sound tool. Just one sound after the other, no song or drum beats. Looking for the sound character, does it suit well to my music and do I have quick ideas what to do with them. You can listen to them here
Audio Track #1
Audio Track #2
Julia: Thanks for all the details, Klaus!
