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No, synth *users* are failing to innovate 😉 I haven't bought a hardware synth since 2001. I eurorack virtually, it's a hell of a lot cheaper and there are very few sounds I can't make with VCV or Pigments.

The Seqtrak is my go to as production Suisse Army Knife

No Euroracking here, but you do have a point. Arturia's latest PolyBrute 12 comes close to having everything one might want in a (standard) hardware synth these days, and it's nothing that hasn’t been seen and done before, but now it’s all inside of a single synth. But then, AstroLab? A hardware preset player for Analog Lab? What’s up with that? There is, however, no shortage of soft synths that would be intensely amazing if they were rebuilt as hardware, starting from Pigments, Phase Plant or Cherry Audio’s Sines, or even some Kontakt instruments like Lunaris 2. Hell, even (or especially) Vital! Not going to happen, I know, but I do like the modern take on synth design compared to the mentality of “let’s pixel-paint Juno 6 on screen down to the last screwhead”, which tends to produce unusable interfaces in software.

I have been doing Eurorack for 14 years. I don’t want to tell you how much money I have dropped on it in that time. The product space has exploded for sure and much of the innovation in the world of hardware synthesizers and effects has occurred there. However, I got into it originally due to the visceral appeal of the thing. Modules with multiple menus and/or button combos do not appeal to me in the same way the Elektron Octatrack, which I bought and sold when the first version was still in production, did not appeal. A cool thing about Eurorack is that everyone into it has their own philosophy and approach to how they create their own systems. I go for the knobby, tactile things and others go for the menu diving things. As far as modules go, I have been into it long enough to have acquired many Cwejman modules, which I would not recommend due to price and availability now. Doepfer still makes some top-notch stuff and adheres to my philosophy. Intellijel is a fantastic company and their stuff is sprinkled all through my systems and I own one of their Cascadia patchable synths. My most recent thing has been Frap Tools, which has more of a West Coast vibe and an unusual design aesthetic. It is also pricey and building a system requires some patience because they build their modules in batches and if you want a specific module it might be out of stock everywhere until the next batch is made. Patience in building a system will reward you, though.

Supposedly the KO2 shipped with an unused second CPU, so we are still holding out hope the big patch will come around to give is Song Mode, Resampling, and Independent FX per channel / master.

Drum Designer is atm on sale for 29$ 🤯

About the price point: Teenage engineering seems to be alot more expensive in europe and yamaha seems to be cheaper. The KO 2 costs around 350€ and the seqtrak 300€.

@arcticfoxstudios2018 Do you like this as much as UVI Shade? If had to choose between Shade and Filterverse which one would you pick?

Great video. Thanks. I have a Circuit Tracks and I love it. It's super simple to use for quick grooves, but if you learn its in's and out's, it's actually a lot more powerful than it seems on the surface. Just as an example, a single pad in a pattern can hold 16/32 steps, but you can pre-chain them before you hit record to have a pattern up 256 steps (32 steps x 8 connected pads). Or you can use them in combos, for example a 16 step pattern, a 64 step pattern, and a 160 step pattern all on the same track. Bringing live audio from external synths into the audio path and processing that audio through the effects and sidechain along with the internal sounds is also super useful. I've heard good things about most of the products you went through, you probably can't go wrong with any of them, and a lot of it just comes down to personal preference. Cool video!

How much is the NG2 fully optioned?

Oh wow, you are into Eurorack, too. I try not to think how much I have dropped on it. In fact, it is not necessarily Eurorack, but I have a Dreadbox Nyx reissue kit on its way from Greece right now. It can be mounted in a standard Eurorack case but comes with a case and a PSU. That would be a pretty good piece of kit even though it is not a BF sale price. Shipped to the US, the total out of pocket was about $330. No soldering is required. It is sort of like the Korg MFM-20 idea. Perfect Circuit has the Erebus reissue on sale for $399, too... so tempting. Yeah the wave alchemy deals are amazing. You can get all their samples for about $100 right now after currency exchange. That is a ridiculous amount of top quality samples to feed your drum machine or whatever, including Triaz.

I appreciate your comparison! Well done.

These are all single sample players. They sound good, but there’s no multi-sampled, multi-velocity layered acoustic kits like EZDrummer, Addictive Drums, Get Good Drums or Steven Slate. I also find the limits lanes of 8 to 10 kit pieces a problem. How about you?

korg esx1 is my favorite machine had lots but wont sell it ever. would love an updated esx1 not an elctribe 2 thay suck

Great comparison. Would like to see some toms added to UVI’s Drum Designer.

Triaz is great. Playbeat sounds/seems like a toy in comparison. I've had playbeat for a long time and have never used it on a track but I'm using Triaz on almost everything i do.

Anything with a drag and drop. morph pad, and randomize button makes me wanna buy it. Been on the fence about Triaz but I might just bite because of the two mentioned features. I'm not just thinking of drum samples. I'm thinking of morphable dragged percussive foley, normal foley and explosions. 😳

Thanks for reminding me I have playbeat haha. Triaz is my fave though. I like how you can drag the pad around to morph the samples.

Fragments 🎉

Another great video! I have and use extensively Playbeat 3 and XO (XLN Audio). But I just bought Triaz last night! I also have Battery 4, but essentially haven’t touched it in over a year. I wanted to tack on a few opinions, since I don’t have a channel like yours but think it could help people trying to decide between all these options. Playbeat 3 is so incredibly easy to use and get a glitch or chillwave groove going. I’d like to point out that’s its main randomization feature is its infinity looping mode! Maybe you touched on this, but I missed it in the video. The infinity looping mode means you can set it up so that it does its smart randomization thing every 1, 2, 3, 4, etc bars so that you never stop changing up the beat, even if it’s just slightly. I think this, plus its price, is why it’s so great! Lastly, Playbeat 4 is coming this Dec or Jan, so watch for the update to drop very soon! XO is, in my opinion, invaluable, because it is AI librarian system. What is the point in having 15,000 drum samples if you spend hours and hours having to sort through them? Its sequencer and MIDI export have some significant limitations, but its factory content includes over 4000 samples and they sound amazing. Importing your other one-shot sample library is nearly completely automatic, and I did my entire external hard drive library in about 5 minutes. Now my XO library has over 18,000 samples. Auditioning the samples is effortless in the main display (Space), with 0 latency. And it’s AI engine not only sorts the entire library (your can merge or sort by factory versus imported samples) by sound type, but it can also suggest a similar sound within that “family” if you want to change it up. I’ve sent XLN a long list of suggestions for their sequencer for their next update, so I hope they incorporate these changes. As far as Triaz goes, note that it’s on sale right now for €64, or you can do what I did and get the Instruments Bundle for €99, which comes with Triaz, their Bass Synth, the Drift expansion, two Kontakt drum machines, and two sample packs. It was too incredible of a deal to pass up.

I own licenses for all of these. All are good, but I prefer Triaz. Audiomodern really damaged their reputation over the recent Soundbox debacle. See the thread in the KVR instruments forum on it. Wave Alchemy and UVI both make amazing samples. You can buy massive amounts of general drum samples from Wave Alchemy, often on sale. I think they are at the top for drum samples along with Goldbaby.

Stop making me think about Triaz again, I just determined that I don't need it :p

I have Triaz and love it. Sounds great out of the box, and easy to tweak. But DD also sounds like a great option. As I am a Falcon user, I will have to consider that option. An update would make it easier to decide... I think that Teletone also has great options. Not as deep as far as the samples, but great sounds.

Although XO has been my favorite, I've been seriously considering Triaz. Now if I could only trade in Drumsynth 500, Boom, and Breaktweaker for Triaz...

Triaz looks interesting...

excellent review

Hiya @Arctic Fox! I hope you're doin' good, man! I like how you bring a different depth on your takes with plugins so I was hoping you have a Black Friday recommended vid planned. Curious to know what your recos are and why. Thanks!

Is there any public discussion of the upcoming 25 key version of the Osmose? I can't seem to find anyone talking about it. I'd love it if it were also optionally available as "just" a MIDI controller, to help reduce cost even further.

It looks really cool! Thanks for sharing he different ways in which you can use it! Very Inspiring.

what about trackers like M8?

I just got a plinky. Freaking love it.

thank’s ! 🙏

Craziness overloaded

If you are still on the lookout for your next soldering project, you could do worse than picking up a Befaco Oneiroi. I built this before I built my plinky - it is a bit more involved from the build perspective, but it is way more satisfying. And the best bit is this: plug the output of the plinky into Oneiroi and embrace the lush soundscapes

Just keep telling yourself, "I'm NOT getting into eurorack! I'm NOT getting into eurorack! I'm NOT getting into eurorack!"

Here’s another great plinky video. Sound samples overlaid with interview with inventor ua-cam.com/video/pyvWqJq8AV8/v-deo.htmlsi=o0I60VrWLHf6gowC

Ain't MPE, though. "Only" poly aftertouch.

I was very lucky to get one just before the big waiting period!

Yeah, I remember Loopop's video. I decided "no" for various reasons that I can no longer remember. It seems cool but I haven't done any real soldering since I built my senior project in EE school in 1986 😛. I went the E&M/systems/signals/applied math route for grad school for various reasons, and that was one of them.

That’s an outrageous price! Behringer makes synths affordable and exciting.

Love this! great format, very entertaining watch and love the music examples. Great stuff.

I’ve held off buying any pedals, looking for stuff like this instead. Been wondering what plugin would be a good substitute for things like the Microcosm and Cosmos. This looks great. Also have Enso, Harmony Bloom, and Weeping Wall.

Kudos to you for taking on the DIY project. Although I built a few projects in high school electronics class decades ago, I'm not confident that I could wield a soldering iron w/o burning something. 🙂

Congratulations! Happy for you! A 3 year story comes to a soldering close! Fat sounding fella! Cyber Punky... errr Plinky! The chip shortage during the pandemic royally screwed so many tech orders from many industries.

I wonder if UVI and NI are sharing platforms because the UI looks a lot like Kontakt.

Love, Dead on!😊

Can you import samples like in kontakt

Moving FX, Mods and Events between layers is still not possible. Why 🙈?????? That would be a great workflow improvement.

I agree. I was an early adopter and my money was well spent. I kept adding libraries over time. Falcon has to be compared with Halion 7 IMO. I find the interface of Falcon easier to use, but they both have their strengths. The two places Falcon does not compete with Halion 7 are in its FM capabilities and the spectral oscillator in Halion. There are some cool third party libraries for Halion 7 out now (run in Halion Sonic free version; similar to Kontakt Player libraries), too. It helps to be a Cubase user, too. It was my first real DAW (after Cakewalk Home Studio, LOL).

I like that Sloom is not a commercial clone of PaulXStretch or a dumbed-down version of it, but that it has its own, interesting approach with the spectral shaping. Thanks for featuring it! And oh wow, what a neat idea to modulate key at a rate so glacial that no-one will notice! 🙂 That one I probably wouldn’t have thought about. Great also that it has presets (or “sessions”). My one big complaint about PXS is that it doesn’t. It’s so easy to tweak a few random controls in search of perfection and never be able to get back to the *really just great* sound I had moments ago. Or to recreate something I did months before. Sessions are a lifesaver. (If you happen to have an open line to the creators, please tell them though that the fonts are way too small; even at the max zoom I have trouble reading them. Yes, I’m getting old, but that’s not going to change and the fonts should! And if they can't make them bigger, it's time to rethink the UI. If Pigments can do so much more in the same space or less, then there's much room for improvement. It makes me fear buying Factorsynth, which fascinates me, but not if I can’t read the UI.)