I’ve only had Tomofon for a week, but as you said “doesn’t replace my other samplers” which focus on playing back acoustic sounds. Tomofon goes much further by converting to synth waveforms. So you’ve got elements of a sampler, but controls of a synth. It’s brilliant and unique. I love it 😊
I'm thinking this might be worth me getting the iPad version. I find the sound sort of earthy and interesting. Im a jazz/blues/world musician, and I tend to gravitate toward natural instruments, but have been trying to combine my more earthy sounds with synths, and sometimes it just doesnt mesh. This might fill that gap for me. 😊
There's a demo you can try for free ;) I think the main question with this one is if it makes sense in your workflow. If you want to make some patches it can be a lot of fun. But for presets I still feel the tech is a bit overkill
Hey man, good review and demo of some of the ways you used it. I just bought it because they have a big sale on the bundle. I think if you own it there's still a sale on the expansions but you have to log in to see the discount. It's certainly an interesting tool. I also got soundpaint because it's unique. Its from the same guy who own 8DIO so they have a massive library of samples behind them. Soundpaint uses some morphing technology. The player is free and it comes with a gorgeous vintage grand instrument. I spent money on some soundpaint libraries. I couldn't help myself. I think I need to make a song a day to keep up wth my spending to justify purchases! (I'm not wealthy). I love everything klevgrand puts out. I like your approach to your videos. Looking forward to seeing more from you.
The matrix, the body, and the curve are pretty cool mixed together with the pitch, depth, filter, and gain. But adding samples i find that doing it manually worked while the others just mixed in on top of the preset. If you find the filter don't work, you have to use the matrix. don't forget the controller settings.
I think a good usage case is if you are making your own [semi-realistic] libraries in kontakt or whatever. You use tomofone to pre-process samples and then you coutput all the tones with a midi pentatonic scale and bounce it to audio for import into kontakt. You can bounce variations of the same scale with the same source material in order to create velocity layers in kontakt. I might give this a go. I've never made a kontakt library before. Maybe I should. Tomofone is a good tool for this. Might make libraries for msoundfactory as well.
I think the confusing thing about Tomofon is that the core impressive tech is what analyses the sample and converts it to wavetables. The actual synth is just a wavetable synth. It gives you a novel and impressive way to get to the wavetable synth stage but it is ultimately a wavetable synthesizer. This would have been huge back in the days when storage and processing limitations made sample based synths cumbersome to use and emphasized the strengths of wavetable synthesizers. I think it could also be very powerful if incorporated into a groovebox, where processing limitations are more relevant than on PC. Drop your samples into the groovebox, get a wavetable patch automagically, and have more polyphony and less glitches in your music! It is more performant than both sample libraries/ROMplers (because of their storage and access overhead) and also more performant than physical modelling synths (because of their computational overhead). It just doesn't really shine on a powerhouse PC, which is where it is being sold...
There's the notable difference here though, that tomofon can have different wavetables for different key ranges! But other than that I think you're exactly right!
This is why I didn't buy it. The actual sound results aren't as interesting as the process of making them. If you've got something like Kontakt, you probably not going to need Tomofon.
Nice melodies, scary to think what you could do with something you really love😮
I’ve only had Tomofon for a week, but as you said “doesn’t replace my other samplers” which focus on playing back acoustic sounds. Tomofon goes much further by converting to synth waveforms. So you’ve got elements of a sampler, but controls of a synth. It’s brilliant and unique. I love it 😊
I'm thinking this might be worth me getting the iPad version. I find the sound sort of earthy and interesting. Im a jazz/blues/world musician, and I tend to gravitate toward natural instruments, but have been trying to combine my more earthy sounds with synths, and sometimes it just doesnt mesh. This might fill that gap for me. 😊
I have been sitting on the edge about this one…. would love to give it a try…. sound beautiful
There's a demo you can try for free ;)
I think the main question with this one is if it makes sense in your workflow. If you want to make some patches it can be a lot of fun. But for presets I still feel the tech is a bit overkill
Thank You! I agree! Klevgr. Is really amazing and Tomofon is so special!
Hey man, good review and demo of some of the ways you used it. I just bought it because they have a big sale on the bundle. I think if you own it there's still a sale on the expansions but you have to log in to see the discount. It's certainly an interesting tool. I also got soundpaint because it's unique. Its from the same guy who own 8DIO so they have a massive library of samples behind them. Soundpaint uses some morphing technology. The player is free and it comes with a gorgeous vintage grand instrument. I spent money on some soundpaint libraries. I couldn't help myself. I think I need to make a song a day to keep up wth my spending to justify purchases! (I'm not wealthy). I love everything klevgrand puts out. I like your approach to your videos. Looking forward to seeing more from you.
The matrix, the body, and the curve are pretty cool mixed together with the pitch, depth, filter, and gain. But adding samples i find that doing it manually worked while the others just mixed in on top of the preset. If you find the filter don't work, you have to use the matrix. don't forget the controller settings.
I think a good usage case is if you are making your own [semi-realistic] libraries in kontakt or whatever. You use tomofone to pre-process samples and then you coutput all the tones with a midi pentatonic scale and bounce it to audio for import into kontakt. You can bounce variations of the same scale with the same source material in order to create velocity layers in kontakt. I might give this a go. I've never made a kontakt library before. Maybe I should. Tomofone is a good tool for this. Might make libraries for msoundfactory as well.
I think the confusing thing about Tomofon is that the core impressive tech is what analyses the sample and converts it to wavetables. The actual synth is just a wavetable synth. It gives you a novel and impressive way to get to the wavetable synth stage but it is ultimately a wavetable synthesizer. This would have been huge back in the days when storage and processing limitations made sample based synths cumbersome to use and emphasized the strengths of wavetable synthesizers. I think it could also be very powerful if incorporated into a groovebox, where processing limitations are more relevant than on PC. Drop your samples into the groovebox, get a wavetable patch automagically, and have more polyphony and less glitches in your music!
It is more performant than both sample libraries/ROMplers (because of their storage and access overhead) and also more performant than physical modelling synths (because of their computational overhead). It just doesn't really shine on a powerhouse PC, which is where it is being sold...
There's the notable difference here though, that tomofon can have different wavetables for different key ranges! But other than that I think you're exactly right!
This is why I didn't buy it. The actual sound results aren't as interesting as the process of making them. If you've got something like Kontakt, you probably not going to need Tomofon.