Re: Synapse The Legend Synthesizer is in the Shop
Posted: 20 Sep 2016
I made this Demo Song during the Beta.
Cool track! Very gritty!Shokstar wrote:I made this Demo Song during the Beta.
If that's the case then it sounds like both synths nailed their emulations.dvdrtldg wrote:At first I thought the same thing, but it seems that Viking has more tweakability - I really like the way the waveforms in Viking can morph into each other rather than a hard switch. Plus there's the mod matrix and a few other bits & pieces. Legend has the fatter sound straight out of the box and I'll probably pick it up at some point, but I can still see myself continuing to use VikingFaastwalker wrote:Poor old Viking won't get a look in any more.
Big fan of Viking
After a few hours' playing with Viking & Legend, that's pretty much what I'm thinking. Kind of glad I didn't pull the trigger on eXpanse, because this is much more up my alley at the momentraymondh wrote: Viking is an emulation of a Moog Voyager, which has more programming versatility, but apparently not quite as big sounding as the original Model D.
If you like the Moog sound, then they might be complementary synths.
I think you are right. See the second half of this article (from Betty Boo...). The Legend has a lot of movement happening.svenh wrote:I love the sound of this one!
Is it just me or does this take a lot of sonic space? Comparing for instance a "clean" saw wave (i.e. no filters, no fx) from Legend with one from e.g. Thor, I find the Legend wave sonically bigger. Is this because of more noise or inherent modulation (like oscillator drift) in Legend?
I don't have much experience with real analog gear, so I don't know if this is a Legend phenomenon, a general analog hardware phenomenon, or just my imagination. This is not a question about better or worse, I am just trying to understand what I am hearing (and figure out how to fit it in my mixes).
True. I hadn't considered those differences. I just saw Mini Moog / Voyager & expected them to be extremely similar.dvdrtldg wrote:At first I thought the same thing, but it seems that Viking has more tweakability - I really like the way the waveforms in Viking can morph into each other rather than a hard switch. Plus there's the mod matrix and a few other bits & pieces. Legend has the fatter sound straight out of the box and I'll probably pick it up at some point, but I can still see myself continuing to use VikingFaastwalker wrote:Poor old Viking won't get a look in any more.
Big fan of Viking
Faastwalker wrote:True. I hadn't considered those differences. I just saw Mini Moog / Voyager & expected them to be extremely similar.dvdrtldg wrote:At first I thought the same thing, but it seems that Viking has more tweakability - I really like the way the waveforms in Viking can morph into each other rather than a hard switch. Plus there's the mod matrix and a few other bits & pieces. Legend has the fatter sound straight out of the box and I'll probably pick it up at some point, but I can still see myself continuing to use VikingFaastwalker wrote:Poor old Viking won't get a look in any more.
Big fan of Viking
This just makes me want Legend even more now! Think I'm going to have to pull the trigger on this one pretty soon
Thanks for your reply and link - interesting read! Sorry to hear that your computer is not up to Legend.Benedict wrote:I think you are right. See the second half of this article (from Betty Boo...). The Legend has a lot of movement happening.svenh wrote:I love the sound of this one!
Is it just me or does this take a lot of sonic space? Comparing for instance a "clean" saw wave (i.e. no filters, no fx) from Legend with one from e.g. Thor, I find the Legend wave sonically bigger. Is this because of more noise or inherent modulation (like oscillator drift) in Legend?
I don't have much experience with real analog gear, so I don't know if this is a Legend phenomenon, a general analog hardware phenomenon, or just my imagination. This is not a question about better or worse, I am just trying to understand what I am hearing (and figure out how to fit it in my mixes).
https://benedictroffmarsh.com/2016/07/1 ... re-better/
I do like the sound of the synth a lot, and perfect for the Model D kind of thing, but that CPU seems just too scary to be useful with just four notes hitting 2 bars at 44k (3 at 96k). Even my minimal mixes would choke pretty fast.
Thats fantastic. I can imagine they'll be millions of patches made for this by VST patch developers.stratatonic wrote:I wasn't aware that you could swap .repatch with .fxp
"The Legend allows to import and export patches in Rack Extension format (.repatch), which
allows to interchange presets between Reason and VST/AU hosts"
http://www.synapse-audio.com/TheLegendManual.pdf
(Of course, you can't do that until The Legend VSTi officially comes out in a few days )
I believe ReDominator's patches in AU/VST are already .repatchmiscend wrote:Thats fantastic. I can imagine they'll be millions of patches made for this by VST patch developers.stratatonic wrote:I wasn't aware that you could swap .repatch with .fxp
"The Legend allows to import and export patches in Rack Extension format (.repatch), which
allows to interchange presets between Reason and VST/AU hosts"
http://www.synapse-audio.com/TheLegendManual.pdf
(Of course, you can't do that until The Legend VSTi officially comes out in a few days )
ReDominator was the same. Patch compatible with the VST version. But unfortunately that synth didn't receive much support from the plugin community.
We plan to make the crossgrade free of charge, just send us your PH invoice as proof of purchase once the VST is outfceramic wrote:I would love to get this in VST as well. Hopefully Synapse can offer a discount.
Wow. Game changer!SynapseAudio wrote:We plan to make the crossgrade free of charge, just send us your PH invoice as proof of purchase once the VST is outfceramic wrote:I would love to get this in VST as well. Hopefully Synapse can offer a discount.
Richard
Not the type to be overly smitten or anything, but I really like Synapse products. I think you guys bring excellent, quality products particularly to the Reason ethos. Well thought out and useable - can't beat that.SynapseAudio wrote:We plan to make the crossgrade free of charge, just send us your PH invoice as proof of purchase once the VST is outfceramic wrote:I would love to get this in VST as well. Hopefully Synapse can offer a discount.
Richard