vaultnaemsae
Inspired
The perfect complement to any Fractal Audio product.
Ditto here, which is funny because their analog synths are absolute classics... but they could never seem to get the right sound even in the VG-99. But from what I've heard of the SY-1000 so far it sounds awesome, I'm definitely going to get one to try. Especially in the above video where he's got the really "rubber" sounding bass arpeggio.... the filtering sounds great... and I'm someone who designs synthesizers for a living so I'm pretty pickyi like the colour of it
i like the idea of it
i don't like boss/roland sounds. never have. they always sound a bit wishy washy to me.
IMO that's a pretty tired argument. We'd all be playing nylon string classical guitars with that kind of mentality. A lot of guitarists are still pushing forward with new sounds and capabilities of the instrument all the time. In a sense an electric guitar is already a kind of synthesizer.. you're not hearing the sounds of the string or moving air, it's a bunch of electrical signals created by the movement of the strings through a magnetic field, and then processed through a bunch of circuitry (or DSP, in the case of the Fractal products). There's already a ton of what is effectively synthesis going on with all the effects, harmonizers, reverbs, "shimmer" etc. This is just another form of that processing which operates on a per-string basis.
Okay.... let me relate this a different way....
I have all these Native Insturments bass and guitar instruments...(bought Komplete Ultimate and they were bundled)
anyways, these instruments for their Kontakt sampler have every possible note, trill, gliss, round robin sampling, all this complete key switching scripting to change fingerings etc. gigs and gigs of data.... we can say it’s as good as sampled bass and guitar parts get, right ?
well i can spend 45 minutes arranging a part with that, or I can grab my bass guitar, and play exactly what I wanted, in 30 seconds.
trying to reproduce all the simple stuff that has to do with a stringed instrument via a midi keyboard is horribly difficult.
likewise, stuff that is simple to do with a synth or piano keyboard can be very difficult using a stringed instrument fretboard....
To which, I have to ask if I want a synth sound, say a Moog bass, why not use on of my vst synth plugins or my Behringer Model D ? Works a lot better than trying to use my guitar for that, just as how I wouldn’t use a subtractive analog synth to play a guitar part.
“Problem” with guitar synths is they sound like guitar synths....
not really the best traditional guitar tone, and certainly not the most cutting edge synthesizer sound design.... basically it sounds like a guitar synth, which kind of makes it a bit dated by nature....
can be fun and all, but I kind of don’t really see the point in making a guitar sound like other instruments when other instruments already do those sounds and do it better....
Why not let a guitar just be a guitar ?
Okay.... let me relate this a different way....
I have all these Native Insturments bass and guitar instruments...(bought Komplete Ultimate and they were bundled)
anyways, these instruments for their Kontakt sampler have every possible note, trill, gliss, round robin sampling, all this complete key switching scripting to change fingerings etc. gigs and gigs of data.... we can say it’s as good as sampled bass and guitar parts get, right ?
well i can spend 45 minutes arranging a part with that, or I can grab my bass guitar, and play exactly what I wanted, in 30 seconds.
trying to reproduce all the simple stuff that has to do with a stringed instrument via a midi keyboard is horribly difficult.
likewise, stuff that is simple to do with a synth or piano keyboard can be very difficult using a stringed instrument fretboard....
To which, I have to ask if I want a synth sound, say a Moog bass, why not use on of my vst synth plugins or my Behringer Model D ? Works a lot better than trying to use my guitar for that, just as how I wouldn’t use a subtractive analog synth to play a guitar part.
...can be fun and all, but I kind of don’t really see the point in making a guitar sound like other instruments when other instruments already do those sounds and do it better....
Why not let a guitar just be a guitar ?
“Problem” with guitar synths is they sound like guitar synths....
not really the best traditional guitar tone, and certainly not the most cutting edge synthesizer sound design.... basically it sounds like a guitar synth, which kind of makes it a bit dated by nature....
can be fun and all, but I kind of don’t really see the point in making a guitar sound like other instruments when other instruments already do those sounds and do it better....
Why not let a guitar just be a guitar ?