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| cryophonik |
| Anybody else here have this synth? I bought it about a week ago and I'm hooked. This is one of the best all-around synths (hardware or software) that I've ever owned. HCM synthesis is very cool and this synth is laid out very nicely and intuitively. It's a breeze to program and, most importantly, the sound is incredible. |
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| DJ Robby Rox |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
Anybody else here have this synth? I bought it about a week ago and I'm hooked. This is one of the best all-around synths (hardware or software) that I've ever owned. HCM synthesis is very cool and this synth is laid out very nicely and intuitively. It's a breeze to program and, most importantly, the sound is incredible. |
I've been hearing a bit about this synth lately, will prob check it out after this thread.
How are the oscillators? Anything unique going on there with sound quality? |
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| Stef |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
Anybody else here have this synth? I bought it about a week ago and I'm hooked. This is one of the best all-around synths (hardware or software) that I've ever owned. HCM synthesis is very cool and this synth is laid out very nicely and intuitively. It's a breeze to program and, most importantly, the sound is incredible. |
Could you show me some of your sounds with it? I just dont really trust the mp3 demos lol. |
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| cryophonik |
Well, the oscillators and the uniqueness of HCM (Harmonic Content Morphing) syntheses is really what gives this synth its character. It starts with hundreds of hi-quality oscillators/waveforms (no, it's not a rompler) and lets you combine the harmonic content in a multitude of ways and gives you a lot of control over how to modulate them, use one to modulate another, etc. This can give you everything from subtle chorus-type effects to FM, PWM, ring mod, etc.-type effects, to out-of-this-world effects. This synth makes astounding pads, basses, leads, etc., and makes some of the nicest supersaws and choir pads (many vocal/formant oscillators to choose from) I've ever made with ease.
It also has an excellent filter with dozens of filter types (HP, LP, BP, BR, Moog-type, fat, thin, formant, you name it), amazing effects (pretty much the same as those in Warmverb), and a ton of modulation capabilities.
I probably sound like an ad for the synth, huh? Anyway, check out the demo - it's a full-featured version that includes all of the thousand or so presets (which are surprisingly good btw), and it's crippled by a 10-minute/instance time limit and an occasional voice-over. |
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| daveth |
Speaking of Warmverb, I've been thinking of checking it out. Any good?
(guess I should just try the demo hey! :p ) |
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | Originally posted by daveth
Speaking of Warmverb, I've been thinking of checking it out. Any good?
(guess I should just try the demo hey! :p ) |
Yeah, Warmverb is my go-to effects plug - definitely check out the demo. It's the first Tone2 product I ever purchased, which heavily influenced my decision to buy FilterBank3, my go-to filter. I love both of those so much that they prompted me to dive into Gladiator2. The funny thing is, when Gladiator1 was initially released, I gave the demo a quick try and dismissed it as just another subtractive synth without giving it much chance. Whoops! ;) |
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| Fledz |
I gave the demo a try and liked it quite a bit. Will probably grab it once I have some more funds.
Cubase 4, Omnisphere and brand new DJ gear are kind of stretching the budget :nervous: |
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| Owsey2008 |
| Damn, sounds real nice...Gonna give it a shot. |
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| cybernetica |
| the precursor was very good, indeed a nice allround synth with a lot of possibilities in changing the timbre of your sound. Also the FX and filter section are some of the best I've encountered yet. I wonder how version 2 has been improved compared to the first. |
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| justjabbin |
| Gladiator is ridiculous!! Warmverb is my favorite fx plugin...check them both! |
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | Originally posted by cybernetica
I wonder how version 2 has been improved compared to the first. |
They only made a few changes: :p
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The HCM3 engine extends HCM synthesis with complex phase manipulation. It provides warmer sounds, noisy sounds, 'analogue' sounds and a bigger sonic range.
● At least 300 new presets; Improved and sorted 'old' factory presets
● New quality mode: 'Ultra' provides 2x oversampling for audio and modulation sources with psychoacoustical postprocessing
● New quality mode: 'Linear' provides highest precision rendering with linear phase for audiophiles and scientific applications
● 6657 additional waveforms OSC 1A-4D
● 25 additional waveforms for OSC 5
● OSC 5 can be played as additional subosc
● New and improved filters
● 6 new unision modes
● Separate pan for OSCs
● Improved modulation: More sources, more destinations, more routings, more slots in mod matrix, 2 Aux envelopes, more LFOs with more features, double precision rendering, shapers for envelopes
● 10 additional effects
Top section:
● 300 new sounds
● Improved factory patches
● New quality mode: 'Ultra' provides 2x oversampling for modulation sources
● New quality mode: 'Linear' provides highest precision rendering with linear phase for audiophiles
● Psychoacoustical postprocessing for warmer sound
● Improved performance
● Improved random function
● Maximum voice number has been increased to 256
● New knob: 'FX MIX' allows dry/wet mixing of effects
● Faster patch changes
● Reduced glitches on patch changes
● Postprocessing filter for rendering with linear phase: Smaller frequency falloff above 12 kHz
● Improved robustness
● Fixed typo in At(h)mos
OSC section - OSC 1A-4D:
The HCM3 synthesis engine extends HCM with complex phase manipulation and provides warmer, more 'analogue' sound.
● 6657 additional waveforms
● Improved sound: Low frequency OSCs are calculated with higher precision
● Improved performance: Faster preprocessing
● New buttons: 'random' for OSCs. Randomizes OSC1/2 or OSC3/4 settings.
● New buttons: 'copy' OSC
● New buttons: 'paste' OSC
● New buttons: 'resynthesis' (part of an expansion)
● New buttons: 'vocoder' (part of an expansion)
● New knob: 'phasemod value'. Sets the depth of phase monipulatuion
● New Modifier: 'phasemod'. It generates analogue, warm, noisy and supersaw sounds.
Additional modes for 'phasemod':
● 'Noise': Adds white noise to OSCs
● 'Noise high': Adds high frequency noise to OSC
● 'Noise granular': Adds grain noise to OSC
● 'Multi slow': Generates slow supersaw sound from OSC
● 'Multi fast': Generats fast supersaw sound from OSC
● 'Multi detuned': Generates detuned supersaw sound from OSCs
● 'Fuzzy slow': Adds slow fuzzy sound to OSC
● 'Fuzzy fast': Adds fast fuzzy sound to OSC
● 'Odd/even slow': Slow PWM-like spectral detuning for OSC
● 'Odd/even fast': Fast PWM-like spectral detuning for OSC
● 'Vibrato strong hilbert': Strong vibrato on low frequencies
● 'Vibrato cos norm': Classic vibrato on all frequencies
● 'Vibrato tri/saw': Triangular shaped vibrato on all frequencies
● 'Static smear': Softens sound
OSC section - OSC5:
● 25 additional waveforms
● OSC5 can be played as subosc
● New knob: 'SEMI' for semitone tuning
● New knob: 'START' sets starting offset of sample
● New button: 'RET' retrigger/not retrigger sample
● New button: 'LOOP' loop/not loop sample
● New knob: 'Load' loads a wav file to OSC5 (part of an expansion)
Filter section:
● New Filter: Moog Lowpass with 24 dB
● New knob: 'SHAPE' manipulates envelope shape
● Improved sound of LP 30 dB: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of LP 30 dB Fat: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of LP 12 dB: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of LP 20 dB x2: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of LP 20 dB x1.5: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of LP 40 dB elliptic: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of LP 30: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of HP 30 dB: Improved frequency response. No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of HP 12 dB: Improved frequency response. No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of BP 15 dB: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of BP 6 dB Fat: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of BP Para: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of EQ Low shelf: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of EQ High shelf: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of EQ Peek: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of Vocals 1: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of Vocals 2: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of Vocals A: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of Vocals E: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of Vocals I: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of Vocals O: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of Vocals U: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of Phaser: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of M-Shape: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
Sound section:
6 new unision modes:
● '4x mono oct': Stacks 2 mono voices in 2 octaves
● '4x stereo oct': Stacks 2 stereo voices in 2 octaves
● '4x mono stack': Stacks 2 mono voices in 3 octaves
● '4x stereo stack': Stacks 2 stereo voices in 3 octaves
● '4x mono stack2': Stacks 2 mono voices in 4 octaves
● '4x stereo stack2': Stacks 2 stereo voices in 4 octaves
Mixer section:
● New knob: 'PAN' for OSC1A-2D
● New knob: 'PAN' for OSC3A-4D
● New knob: 'PAN' for AM
● New knob: 'PAN' for OSC5A-5B
Volume section:
New knob: 'SHAPE' manipulates envelope shape for more punchy or softer sound
Effect section:
● Improved sound of Flanger
● New effect: Phaser
● New effect: Flanger 2
● New effect: Super strings (16x stereo Chorus)
● New effect: Pitch shifter
● New effect: 24 dB Lowpass for effect section
● New effect: 12 dB Bandpass for effect section
● New effect: 24 dB Highpass for effect section
● New effect: Talkbox vocal filter for effect section
● New effect: 'Reverb trance' is a reverb with detuned sound
● New effect: 'Reverb real' is a classic sounding reverb
New section - 'Feedback':
The new feedback delay effect applies to the effect section of FX1 and FX2. It is usefull for morphing echo sounds and filtered delay effects.
● New knob: 'GAIN' sets feedback amount
● New selector: 'FX FEEDBACK DELAY' defines delay amount
● New button: 'CLIP' clips feedback
LFO section:
● Additional LFO: LFO4
● New button: 'KEY' enables key follow for LFO frequency (usefull for FM sounds)
● New button: 'LFO 1/2' selector
● Improved Trancegate sound
New section - 'Aux envelopes'
Two additonal Aux enveopes can be routed in the mod matrix.
● New button: 'AUX ENV 1/2' selector
● New knob: 'AUX ENVELOPE ATTACK'
● New knob: 'AUX ENVELOPE DECAY'
● New knob: 'AUX ENVELOPE SUSTAIN'
● New knob: 'AUX ENVELOPE RELEASE'
● New knob: 'AUX ENVELOPE FADE'
● New knob: 'AUX ENVELOPE SHAPE'
Mod matrix:
The number of available slots in the mod matrix has been increased from 6 to 12.
● New button: 'MOD MATRIX ENV 1/2' selector
● New modulation source: 'LFO 4'
● New modulation source: 'AUX ENV 1'
● New modulation source: 'AUX ENV 2'
● New modulation source: 'flipflop' triggers to -1 or 1 on noteOn commands
● New modulation destination: 'feedback' modulates feedback delay gain
● New modulation destination: 'pan12' modulates OSC1/2 pan
● New modulation destination: 'pan34' modulates OSC3/4 pan
● New modulation destination: 'panAM' modulates AM pan
● New modulation destination: 'pan5' modulates OSC5 pan
● New modulation destination: 'semi' modulates OSC5 semitones
● New modulation destination: 'fine' modulates OSC5 finetuning
● New modulation destination: 'start' modulates OSC5 start offset
● New modulation destination: 'modAmou7' modulates amount of slot7 in the mod matrix
● New modulation destination: 'modAmou8' modulates amount of slot8 in the mod matrix
● New modulation destination: 'modAmou9' modulates amount of slot9 in the mod matrix
● New modulation destination: 'modAmou10' modulates amount of slot10 in the mod matrix
● New modulation destination: 'modAmou11' modulates amount of slot11 in the mod matrix
● New modulation destination: 'modAmou12' modulates amount of slot12 in the mod matrix
GUI:
● The interface is rendered in higher quality with ambient occulsion.
● Brighter displays for better text display.
● New colors.
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