Nice to see this kind of modern "power synth" focused on FM and that FM8 style workflow. I got FM8 a while back for $10 but never really got much use out of it.
You told us about Ghost over a year ago I think on the Discord and I was thinking about it recently. I'm so happy they changed the GUI !!! Grabbing the trial now and will join you all in the chat later.
@@Letsynthesize 1. I actually don't have that much experience with Serum. I have some experience with FM8 so the Matrix isn't bothering me. 2. FM8 just has one general unison knob. Phase Plant and Vital have unison per oscillator, but that also means sending a stereo modulator towards a mono oscillator means the left and right channel are being FM'd in a different way.
Very interesting synth! I also participated in the creation of presets for it as Citybox and I will tell you that if the developer continues to take into account the opinions of different producers, then this synth will be even cooler. It’s a pity that you didn’t say in the video that the main feature of this synthesizer is the ability to add several instances of effects and not just one effect, as in old synths, which simplifies our life as much as possible☝️😎. I’ll also note a very good allpass filter, which is similar to a disperser and which, again, can be opened more than once in the chain of effects and also after each operator 🔥🔥🔥.
What a nice and high quality review for a very nice upgrowing synth....a little thing to ghost, you can stack the warping modes (asym, bend and so on) but not the harmonic filters (shift, LP, HP). STE is STEREO-Offset it does something but not on all parameters...i dont have a clou how work with it but it does something lol*
The STE control (you mentioned you don't know what it is) looks like some type of Stereo modulation setting. I found it by click/dragging it over to the UI. Is there a manual for the demo? I couldn't find one.
Niiiiceeeee!!! FM8 really lacked the ability to flexibly change the wave. And the LFO and other effects were weaker than on modern synths. But the matrix of operators is just an ingenious feature, which was very lacking in the new synths!
You don't have to buy it obviously. It is not a payed ad, I love this synth, and I know afew guys who feel Ghost easier to program against PP that is a great but huge synth. The other advantage is the FM8 style matrix. Lots of people loved FM8 and NI never upgraded the it, so these people find this synth a treat (also it sounds as strong as PP and fun to program as FM8). So yeh, you might feel that it is not worth the price, but these tools are mainly more about the inspiration and this synth brings it with the improved FM8 layout. Again: this is MY opinion, nobody payed to advertise Ghost... It's a shame I have to repeat this on a music production channel.
@@nihilxstmusic You're thinking how Phase Plant lets you utilize real FM vs Phase Modulation. You can do linear and exponential FM in Phase Plant, along with phase modulation (this is what all other "FM" synths do).
@@jackryan3429 Just to emphesize what you're saying: pretty much ALL software synths actually us PM (Phase Modulation) and NOT **actual** FM (Frequency Modulation) that analog synths use. AFAIK PhasePlant is the only "real" FM Soft-Synth. Maybe there's others, but of the "big" synths, (Serum, Massive, even FM8) all use PM, not FM.
@@onaucc9899 Phase Plant and Pigments allow you to do FM or PM. I own too many , and out of all the one's I own, I think Phase Plant is the best value with how modular it is. I pretty much stopped using Serum, Vital, Massive, Massive X, and FM8 and go to Phase Plant a majority of the time. Now Pigments I find has some very uniqueness to its sound that I still use it frequently as well. I have yet to find a better synth for Reese style basses than Pigments.
Cool synth, quite pricey tho. Did Exacoustics give you the copy you're using for the demo or sponsor this vid in anyway? Transparency in reviews is important. Cheers
@@primordia8133 He never payed me anything for the review It was in a very early beta when I saw the synth and asked the developer dude for access and offered a review video about it as exchange. But since then I got into it so much I can’t express. It’s a crazy good synth!!
@@LawrenceAaronLuther There isn't anything like that. But honestly, many synths don’t have it (Vital, Current, Ableton Wavetable, etc.), and I don’t really miss it. Most synths do a great job of transforming samples into wavetables. If not, you can still use Serum for that and just export the wavetables to Ghost. However, I doubt I’d do this very often since the internet is filled with great free wavetable packs.
@@ghfjfghjasdfasdf If you can generate hundreds of thousands by using synths producing music, i'ts not the synth that does it. So in that case you can do it perfectly fine with free Vital as well … ;) … So the correct causality would rather be: If you're making hundreds of thousands, you really don't care about spending 200 bucks … ;)
@@nobodyxxxxxxxx - Vital is freemium, and I guarantee he made more on it's launch than Ghost has. No one is going to pay $199 to an unproven dev who is not easy to locate or identify in real life.
Oh, and Ghost offers UNLIMITED EFFECTS INSTANCES!!! So you can go crazy with distortions for example! 🔥😈
Nice to see this kind of modern "power synth" focused on FM and that FM8 style workflow. I got FM8 a while back for $10 but never really got much use out of it.
I think I got the same deal.
I've gotten a bunch of great sounds of it but I also think it's pretty clunky to set and adjust envelopes.
Holy shit dude, this synth looks nuts!
It is bro! Crazy flexible and sound quality!
Those factory sounds are nuts 🤯
@@Oraclemusics There are not too many there but those are nuts!!
You told us about Ghost over a year ago I think on the Discord and I was thinking about it recently. I'm so happy they changed the GUI !!! Grabbing the trial now and will join you all in the chat later.
I didn't see you there :D
@@Letsynthesize I'll be on there this weekend. 👾
@@Dan_Stopani Good!! It's good to be precautious! 😊
I do have two questions:
1. How easy is it to use the envelopes and modulators to control the FM amount?
2. How do unison and FM work together?
1, I think it's as easy as in Serum! The matrix COULD make it being confusing but it's really not!
2, I am not sure I got your question.
@@Letsynthesize
1. I actually don't have that much experience with Serum. I have some experience with FM8 so the Matrix isn't bothering me.
2. FM8 just has one general unison knob. Phase Plant and Vital have unison per oscillator, but that also means sending a stereo modulator towards a mono oscillator means the left and right channel are being FM'd in a different way.
@ Exactly! Don't be fooled, it has great use cases
new synths are always fun to play with :D
@@Pyroific Plus this is actually good!!!
Very interesting synth! I also participated in the creation of presets for it as Citybox and I will tell you that if the developer continues to take into account the opinions of different producers, then this synth will be even cooler. It’s a pity that you didn’t say in the video that the main feature of this synthesizer is the ability to add several instances of effects and not just one effect, as in old synths, which simplifies our life as much as possible☝️😎. I’ll also note a very good allpass filter, which is similar to a disperser and which, again, can be opened more than once in the chain of effects and also after each operator 🔥🔥🔥.
Thank you for your preset share presets, I’ve used quite a few of yours 👏
🙌🙌🙌👍@@darotm7628
@@forfree4794 Yeh I forgot about the limitless fx. I dropped a pinned comment about it.
the best demo so far ! thnx makes the sort sounds you would hope for nice cutting sounds yeah shame half the vid is missing
@@jonotwycross8998 it is not missing. I accidentally set a longer range for the timeline than the actual video.
@@Letsynthesize ok still very cool thnx again
What a nice and high quality review for a very nice upgrowing synth....a little thing to ghost, you can stack the warping modes (asym, bend and so on) but not the harmonic filters (shift, LP, HP).
STE is STEREO-Offset it does something but not on all parameters...i dont have a clou how work with it but it does something lol*
sounds very good!
Video ends at 9:20
Oops. Gonna fix it! Thanks for the heads up!
@@Letsynthesize Happens to the best of us =)
@@DaddaPsy Especially with me, right? 😂
Its the director's cut version haha
Leave it up as a meme of the directors cut
The STE control (you mentioned you don't know what it is) looks like some type of Stereo modulation setting. I found it by click/dragging it over to the UI. Is there a manual for the demo? I couldn't find one.
Fuck, this thing is amazing!
@@Explonith It is bruh!!
Niiiiceeeee!!! FM8 really lacked the ability to flexibly change the wave. And the LFO and other effects were weaker than on modern synths. But the matrix of operators is just an ingenious feature, which was very lacking in the new synths!
@@chillhomers
Perfect view! That’s the point of this synth!!
support from blackscreen
💗
Easy mode from Surge
FM9? FM8?
Ghost is a combination of FM8 and Serum. In my eyes it could easyil have been FM9...
Why would one get this over Phase Plant, especially at the same price?
You don't have to buy it obviously. It is not a payed ad, I love this synth, and I know afew guys who feel Ghost easier to program against PP that is a great but huge synth.
The other advantage is the FM8 style matrix. Lots of people loved FM8 and NI never upgraded the it, so these people find this synth a treat (also it sounds as strong as PP and fun to program as FM8).
So yeh, you might feel that it is not worth the price, but these tools are mainly more about the inspiration and this synth brings it with the improved FM8 layout.
Again: this is MY opinion, nobody payed to advertise Ghost... It's a shame I have to repeat this on a music production channel.
PhasePlant’s FM operates differently compared to other software synths from what I heard
@@nihilxstmusic You're thinking how Phase Plant lets you utilize real FM vs Phase Modulation. You can do linear and exponential FM in Phase Plant, along with phase modulation (this is what all other "FM" synths do).
@@jackryan3429 Just to emphesize what you're saying: pretty much ALL software synths actually us PM (Phase Modulation) and NOT **actual** FM (Frequency Modulation) that analog synths use. AFAIK PhasePlant is the only "real" FM Soft-Synth. Maybe there's others, but of the "big" synths, (Serum, Massive, even FM8) all use PM, not FM.
@@onaucc9899 Phase Plant and Pigments allow you to do FM or PM. I own too many , and out of all the one's I own, I think Phase Plant is the best value with how modular it is. I pretty much stopped using Serum, Vital, Massive, Massive X, and FM8 and go to Phase Plant a majority of the time. Now Pigments I find has some very uniqueness to its sound that I still use it frequently as well. I have yet to find a better synth for Reese style basses than Pigments.
Cool synth, quite pricey tho. Did Exacoustics give you the copy you're using for the demo or sponsor this vid in anyway? Transparency in reviews is important. Cheers
@@primordia8133 He never payed me anything for the review It was in a very early beta when I saw the synth and asked the developer dude for access and offered a review video about it as exchange. But since then I got into it so much I can’t express. It’s a crazy good synth!!
EZ mennyibe kerül Te he?
is there a wavetable editor and harmonic partial editor like Serum/Operator?
No
@@LawrenceAaronLuther There isn't anything like that. But honestly, many synths don’t have it (Vital, Current, Ableton Wavetable, etc.), and I don’t really miss it. Most synths do a great job of transforming samples into wavetables. If not, you can still use Serum for that and just export the wavetables to Ghost. However, I doubt I’d do this very often since the internet is filled with great free wavetable packs.
YAMAHA DX2024
@@wyseaudio Without the irritating buttons based programming ☺️
cool but very expensive - 200$ and no offers
@@GiuseppeMottaJay
I find it expensive too. How full he’ll make a sale soon!
$200 is nothing for something that can generate 100s of thousands of dollars.
@@ghfjfghjasdfasdf If you can generate hundreds of thousands by using synths producing music, i'ts not the synth that does it. So in that case you can do it perfectly fine with free Vital as well … ;) … So the correct causality would rather be: If you're making hundreds of thousands, you really don't care about spending 200 bucks … ;)
good but it could be free like vital
People should be compensated for their time and hard work.
@@nobodyxxxxxxxx - Vital is freemium, and I guarantee he made more on it's launch than Ghost has. No one is going to pay $199 to an unproven dev who is not easy to locate or identify in real life.
their demo crush my daw cubase 11, win 7
that's good, no? or do you mean "crashed"? :D
Nice GUI, sounds fat too. A bit pricy. No intro price on the unit?!
fat tune
@@JamInPeace Yay
no thanks we will wait for the official release of serum 2.0!!!!
@@musicbydenchikwill it ever happen?