Same here. I’m only on a quad HD display but any scale setting above 100% makes the knob controls look jagged around the edges
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- KVRian
- 660 posts since 19 Mar, 2001 from berlin / germany
thanks for this thread! i thought about getting vps avanger in the recent sale, but i figured i already have a quite complex synth i never really used (mainly due to cpu-hunger) now that i have a mac mini m2 i finally can and should explore alchemy.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1089 posts since 21 Jul, 2012
Excellent! Typically, whenever I am contemplating any new purchase I deep dive into Logic Pro again and 8 times out of 10 I find that Logic has got it coveredaudio/fault wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:30 am thanks for this thread! i thought about getting vps avanger in the recent sale, but i figured i already have a quite complex synth i never really used (mainly due to cpu-hunger) now that i have a mac mini m2 i finally can and should explore alchemy.
- KVRAF
- 25311 posts since 3 Feb, 2005 from in the wilds
Alchemy is fantastic!audio/fault wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:30 am thanks for this thread! i thought about getting vps avanger in the recent sale, but i figured i already have a quite complex synth i never really used (mainly due to cpu-hunger) now that i have a mac mini m2 i finally can and should explore alchemy.
- KVRAF
- 25311 posts since 3 Feb, 2005 from in the wilds
- KVRAF
- 35249 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Yes and no - it’s definitely a sound designers wet dream as Alchemy was, and like Alchemy has inspired some fantastic sound design because of that. What it mainly lacks is the additive and spectral resynthesis, spectral synthesis and morphing- those things remain Alchemy’s pretty much unique selling point in a user friendly synth - only a few things like CSound and Kyma do it better but they are much more specialised, not to mention complicated. Halion 7 now has probably more faithful spectral resynthesis but not morphing and I hate Halion’s clunky interface.dumbledog wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 8:57 pm I've tried puttering around with Alchemy time to time vsince it came to Logic and damn if a synth could make me feel like an idiot it's this one. Zillions of controls to the point where I had trouble even groking the signal flow, and a gigantic decision space to where I don't know where to start making a sound do what I'm wanting it to.
Do folks think maybe PIgments has largely encroached upon Alchemy's soundspace, maybe not precisely but mostly overlapping? I found Pigments to be a lot more intuitive.
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- KVRAF
- 25311 posts since 3 Feb, 2005 from in the wilds
Auto Sampler is quite useful on Logic. Makes it so easy to sample other instruments and make Sampler patches from them. Of course the samples can be imported into Alchemy too if you want to morph them. Then it is easy to set up those morph variations as articulations which can be applied to specific notes.LFO8 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:56 amExcellent! Typically, whenever I am contemplating any new purchase I deep dive into Logic Pro again and 8 times out of 10 I find that Logic has got it coveredaudio/fault wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:30 am thanks for this thread! i thought about getting vps avanger in the recent sale, but i figured i already have a quite complex synth i never really used (mainly due to cpu-hunger) now that i have a mac mini m2 i finally can and should explore alchemy.
- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1089 posts since 21 Jul, 2012
Yaaassss!pdxindy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 2:23 pmAuto Sampler is quite useful on Logic. Makes it so easy to sample other instruments and make Sampler patches from them. Of course the samples can be imported into Alchemy too if you want to morph them. Then it is easy to set up those morph variations as articulations which can be applied to specific notes.LFO8 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:56 amExcellent! Typically, whenever I am contemplating any new purchase I deep dive into Logic Pro again and 8 times out of 10 I find that Logic has got it coveredaudio/fault wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:30 am thanks for this thread! i thought about getting vps avanger in the recent sale, but i figured i already have a quite complex synth i never really used (mainly due to cpu-hunger) now that i have a mac mini m2 i finally can and should explore alchemy.
- KVRAF
- 6969 posts since 28 Dec, 2015 from Atlantis Island
Especially cool to sample your own hardware synths (which have no preset system).pdxindy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 2:23 pm
Auto Sampler is quite useful on Logic. Makes it so easy to sample other instruments and make Sampler patches from them. Of course the samples can be imported into Alchemy too if you want to morph them. Then it is easy to set up those morph variations as articulations which can be applied to specific notes.
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- KVRian
- 853 posts since 25 Sep, 2014
I don't know anything about spectral synthesis, so that may be where my stumbling block is. Off to the 'tubes for some intro videos I suppose.aMUSEd wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 2:20 pm Yes and no - it’s definitely a sound designers wet dream as Alchemy was, and like Alchemy has inspired some fantastic sound design because of that. What it mainly lacks is the additive and spectral resynthesis, spectral synthesis and morphing- those things remain Alchemy’s pretty much unique selling point in a user friendly synth - only a few things like CSound and Kyma do it better but they are much more specialised, not to mention complicated. Halion 7 now has probably more faithful spectral resynthesis but not morphing and I hate Halion’s clunky interface.
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- KVRAF
- 35249 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
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Tbh IL Harmor can do spectral resynthesis but not so sure about synthesis or morphing but it’s been dead on Mac for yonks so I forgot about it, afaik IL also killed off all their plugins except for use within FL Studio so I guess Apple is not the only fruit to do that stuff
Tbh IL Harmor can do spectral resynthesis but not so sure about synthesis or morphing but it’s been dead on Mac for yonks so I forgot about it, afaik IL also killed off all their plugins except for use within FL Studio so I guess Apple is not the only fruit to do that stuff
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1089 posts since 21 Jul, 2012
Another thing; I am sorely missing a spread knob in the VA section of the oscillator. I mean we have unison and detune controls in there. Not having a control to spread out those unison voices in the stereo field just seems like a glaring omission.
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- KVRAF
- 3329 posts since 6 Aug, 2009
am not arguing your point, but every synth plugin has something missing. would it be nice to have? sure. can i work without it? also... sure.LFO8 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 7:07 pm Another thing; I am sorely missing a spread knob in the VA section of the oscillator. I mean we have unison and detune controls in there. Not having a control to spread out those unison voices in the stereo field just seems like a glaring omission.
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