KVR Audio

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 7:03 pm

Examigan wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 5:49 pm It would be cool to also have resynthesis and some sort of morphing between presets.

The current Alchemy is impressive... the resynthesis is very good

vata44 · Post by **vata44** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 11:46 pm

I bought alchemy back in the day and still use it today on PC. It’s one of the few installers and keys I fear losing most. It’s such an awesome synth.

Dencheg · Post by **Dencheg** » Mon Feb 07, 2022 2:38 am

vata44 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 11:46 pm I bought alchemy back in the day and still use it today on PC. It’s one of the few installers and keys I fear losing most. It’s such an awesome synth.

I assume you’ve already done that, but if not, upload it to all your cloud services (Google, OneDrive, Dropbox) and a couple external drives

LeVzi · Post by **LeVzi** » Mon Feb 07, 2022 6:50 am

vata44 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 11:46 pm I bought alchemy back in the day and still use it today on PC. It’s one of the few installers and keys I fear losing most. It’s such an awesome synth.

Well if Steinberg have their way you will, it's a VST2 plugin.

Unless you use a host that will always work with VST2.

I will lose Camelphat and Camelspace, which both still work fine. Not happy.

Halonmusic · Post by **Halonmusic** » Mon Feb 07, 2022 9:09 pm

Steinberg, grrrr!

mladi · Post by **mladi** » Tue Feb 08, 2022 10:14 am

..for third party plugins that haven’t been updated since years or even abandoned like Alchemy you better grrrr! the developer and not Steinberg.

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Tue Feb 08, 2022 5:32 pm

As Alchemy isn’t gone you need to switch to the century old rival of Steinberg. Get Logic…

jackoo · Post by **jackoo** » Tue Feb 08, 2022 5:34 pm

you all realize this is a thread from 2015?

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Tue Feb 08, 2022 5:39 pm

It came up again as Steinberg ditches VST2 support…

jackoo · Post by **jackoo** » Tue Feb 08, 2022 5:44 pm

Tj Shredder wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 5:39 pm It came up again as Steinberg ditches VST2 support…

got it... yup... carry on

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Tue Feb 08, 2022 5:51 pm

Tj Shredder wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 5:39 pm It came up again as Steinberg ditches VST2 support…

No it was necro'd on page 10 by a newbie in their first and only post....

ylhcsd wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 6:44 pm Is anyone happy to give/sell me the pre-2015 Alchemy factory soundbank?
I don't have much but I would be willing to pay something for it.
I never download when they told us to. When I try to load stuff I was really proud of it just sounds naff with Apple's version.If you can help I will be uber grateful.

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Tue Feb 08, 2022 6:22 pm

Tj Shredder wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 5:32 pm As Alchemy isn’t gone you need to switch to the century old rival of Steinberg. Get Logic…

I find the current iteration of Alchemy in Logic significantly better than the old Camel version (v1)

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Tue Feb 08, 2022 6:43 pm

One would hope there have been significant improvements in 7 years.

Alchemy still works on Win 10 here and unlike the newbie I did back up all the installation files so if I time lock a machine and never update anything else it should keep working for the foreseeable future or until hardware failure.

But to be honest I never use it in projects these days as I tend not to trust abandoned software and I've got a ton of other synths that are still actively developed (on Windows).

It's still a great sounding synth and I'll call it up for a play once in awhile but if I lost Alchemy I wouldn't be too heartbroken.

S1gnsOfL1fe · Post by **S1gnsOfL1fe** » Tue Feb 08, 2022 7:11 pm

The most popular video on my channel is an Omnisphere 2 video where I tell the story of how Camel Audio was once revered by us software synthesizer enthusiasts. While most of the content of the video isn't relevant to this thread, the first 2 minutes certainly is!

https://youtu.be/H0g6Zgx0TpI

iPlogger · Post by **iPlogger** » Tue Feb 08, 2022 11:53 pm

Hahaha. Nice video opening. A fruit company bought them?

I still use Alchemy quite a bit. I have several favorites, like Himalya's "1000 Oceans" several Luftrum pads, "Cryo Piano" from Artificial Intelligence, and a few from "Dream Voices" that I gravitate towards. Ian Boddy's "Analogica" gets very high praise from me. And other sounds I'm forgetting.

I've heard Alchemy still works under Windows 11, but I haven't upgraded yet as I'm not 100% positive if Native Instruments and Komplete Kontrol are fully compatible. I have backed up the files on multiple drives over the years, but someone mentioned saving to a cloud service which I should do.

Camel Audio Alchemy is gone forever. Now what?!!