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Synapse Audio OBSESSION Synth Released !

Synapse Audio OBSESSION Synth

That's an interesting UI, I'll be intrigued to see how it works in practice.

Makes me nostalgic.

Man, I sure did a lot of portamento rises back in the day

Guy Rowland wrote: ↑May 21, 2020 2:43 am That's an interesting UI, I'll be intrigued to see how it works in practice.

Without any of that glow that was added in video post.

Isn't there just a OB-Xa clone out by Arturia?

The Saxer wrote: ↑May 21, 2020 5:34 pm Isn't there just a OB-Xa clone out by Arturia?

Yes, and It's a brand new release

Hopefully Synapse Audio's version will be out soon.

The Saxer wrote: ↑May 21, 2020 5:34 pm Isn't there just a OB-Xa clone out by Arturia?

Yes but it's not as good or detailed as Synapse's version.

EvilDragon wrote: ↑May 22, 2020 6:01 am

The Saxer wrote: ↑May 21, 2020 5:34 pm Isn't there just a OB-Xa clone out by Arturia?

Yes but it's not as good or detailed as Synapse's version.

Good news !
I don’t find Arturia ´s impressive at all.

Nobody else tried the free OBX-d I mentioned?

I think I did, Jay. Some time ago :-(

Ashermusic wrote: ↑May 26, 2020 9:31 am Nobody else tried the free OBX-d I mentioned?

It doesn't emulate an OB-Xa at all.

EvilDragon wrote: ↑May 26, 2020 1:28 pm

Ashermusic wrote: ↑May 26, 2020 9:31 am Nobody else tried the free OBX-d I mentioned?

It doesn't emulate an OB-Xa at all.

Ah, thanks ED.

It actually doesn't emulate any Oberheim specifically, it's more of an "inspired by" sort of thing.

Here is a comment posted by Richard of Synapse Audio on KVR forums today 6-6-20. So, we are not too far from the release of Obsession.
Quote :

"Getting very close Beta testers have been incredible, responding to new versions lighting fast so we could make rapid progress and pretty much finish the plugin. Some work is left to do on the factory library and manual. Hard to estimate how long this will take exactly, but roughly 1-2 weeks should be realistic."

OBSESSSION Synth Released !

Synapse Audio OBSESSION Synth

OK, I must admit, some of those patches sounded really good even on my laptop speakers. They sounded REALLY good on the studio monitors. Just what I needed...

Wow. The pads in particular have a very luscious analog sound.

One thing I don't get, which I didn't understand with the (free) OXa from IK-if it's modeled after an Oberheim (the color scheme is the same) why no noise generator, why no unison mode? (or is either there somewhere?)

I am sure this is way above it, but I signed up for and received for free the Syntronik OX-A and I am pretty happy with it.

Larry there is a Unison Mode, click the Mono button. https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/s ... uments-oxa

For $69.99 I can buy all of them, including my two favorites, the Memorymoog (in my view, the best sounding synth in history) and the Jupiter 8. As I have Omnisphere 2, the U-he Prophets, the Arturia Mood Modular, the the now defunct but still working LinPlug Albino 3, Crono X3, and Octopus and all the Logic synths, I think I am all set up for synths.

OXa is a sample based synth.

I know. But I am a pianist who plays some synthesizer so with all the others I have, it’s ok for me. But i can understand why bit might not be for real synthesists..

Jay, change to mono mode. Do you hear the wonderful sound of all oscillators in a thick glorious one voice sound? No, you don’t. Nor is there the noise generator from the OBX-a. Trust me, I owned one. This ain’t it.

Ok Larry thanks.

Fabulous sounding presets, in much the same way Arturia's weren't. And I can't recall many in my Sonic Projects op-x Pro ii sounding like it, eg the pad at 1'50 - how d'ey do dat?

Because the op-x sounds fabulous, I've not really considered this but must confess I might have to give it a demo. If it's nice to work with - the Sonic Projects famously isn't - then my jaded self could conceivably crumble.

I can't face the Syntronk series - I have so many great proper synths, the prospect of a vast sample pool of sampled synth-lites just doesn't appeal.

Plus it’s a pain to install. It’s hard to complain about “free”, but a composer friend and I were texting back and forth trying to get the damn thing to work.

For anyone going for it, you need both Syntronik Free and SampleTank 4 free, which isn't made clear. The dL’s were slow as heck on my system and then there was the registration/authorization nonsense. IMO, IK do themselves no favors with that sort of stuff.

I completely understand the sensation of having too much of a good thing. I'm currently resisting a swath of summer sales and new releases from respected developers for that very reason.

That said, I want to flesh out the image of Syntronik a bit. Yes, the synths are sampled; but the circuits are modeled. One of the lead sound designers of Syntronik, Erik Norlander, was also lead on the Alesis Andromeda two decades ago; and that monster creation is respresented among the plethora of synths that were sampled (and partly modeled) for IK Multimedia.

The sampling approach is not without its shortcomings, but it's certainly less limited than many might suppose. Syntronik is not the first softsynth I'd recommend, but I'm glad I have it. (I bought the Deluxe version, and I acknowledge that it was a bit of a pain to install—you have to download and install each synth separately, IIRC.)

Best,

Geoff