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Saturday, March 31, 2007
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I am going with an open mind, to listen to this Arturia demo.
ReplyDeletei swear
Already downloaded, already on order.
ReplyDeleteupdate: listening to 9/15. soul still unmoved. artificial media soul still also unmoved.
ReplyDeletepighood: are you german?
ReplyDeleteI think Germans would like this softsynth.
To me it sounds like a basic Arturia engine with some EQ on it. Maybe a convolution EQ.
sounds like crap. not even close to the real thing. what a joke, should be sued for misleading people..
ReplyDeleteI own a Jupiter-8 and downloaded the Arturia softsynth yesterday. Bottom line...it sounds nothing like the real thing. Sounds like an Arturia engine with lots of EQ and effects. Oh, it looks like a Jupiter-8...but a pretty picture does not a Jupiter-8 make.
ReplyDeletedont even need to listen to the demos...simple fact is Artura sounds like Arturia with everything they release, not any of the analog synths they claim to sound like
ReplyDeletei think you need to balance the inherent limitations of software against the inherent advantages. no, it doesn't sound exactly like a J8, but it is much more than a generic subtractive soft synth. you can tell a lot of time has gone into giving the sound some character. it's also NOTHING like the other arturia synths - the oscillators have much better anti-aliasing and sound much more faithful to those of the J series. furthermore, you can run multiple instances, it lives and runs in your machine, offers new mod possibilities... My point is that for 150 quid you can't expect an exact reproduction of the analogue equivalent, but if they kept all the limitations of the analogue version as well it would be a dissapointment. progression is good.
ReplyDelete"progression is good."
ReplyDeletei agree, then i advice you to give a try to gmedia vsti (or things like timewarp2600)
arturia manages to sell many things mostly because there are many famous dumbs who are ready to say things such as "hey, i sold my big and heavy GX1 now i can use that so great sounding CS80V), and because of their nice guis ...
but talking about sound, they ve nothing common with what they re supposed to emulate
i don t say they sounds crappy, (but i m not that far to think they do), just, they make an usual subtractive stuff with NO personality in the sound, and put a nice picture of a synth on it
i ve used all the synths they emulated, and still own some of them, at the time i got they released the CS80v first demo, i sent them a message to tell i could send them samples of the real synth, because it sounded really to thin and different from the original, they did not even care to answer it, i only received an email from them months later, telling that they needed help from cs80 users, for their next updates, and that they d make a 35% discount to thank them for their help...
i still can t understand why people do lose their money in buying their instruments, even for free i would not want their stuffs... (sorry for being so long, but people who like arturia vsti make me angry ...)
Nope. Sounds nothing like a Jupiter 8.
ReplyDeleteFACTS:
ReplyDelete- Sounds nothing like a Jupiter 8
- VA Technology *could* sound a lot more like a Jupiter 8 -- it is possible
- Code improvements mean less aliasing
- This sounds lots like other Arturia products
- Some people can't tell, or don't care about the above
- Eldhart hates Arturia
- Arturia's 2600 vs. Wayoutware's is no contest -- Wayoutware wins and sounds sexy
So, what's the point?
Aren't there better places to spend money? Like linplug octopus (freaking awesome)? or Wayoutware (a fair bit of magic here), or all the applied acoustics stuff (very fresh), NexSyn (fresh sampler/synth hybrid), etc...
So much great stuff to choose this for its UI.
Hi!
ReplyDeleteI've never tried a real Jupiter 8, so i can't compare them. But i've tried the demo and made a sweet arpeggiated bassline with it, for free!
Since it sounds good anyways, They should just make their own synth names and graphics if they can't emulate the real thing, otherwise it's just profit-driven reputation vampirism and fools the consumers who, unlike me, will buy the actual product.
Another thing : i hate when they put effects on the synths, what's the point? Few people need another delay or chorus i think.
Of course, if you think it sounds good, and like it, buy it.
ReplyDeleteIt just doesn't happen to sound much like a Jupiter 8 at all.
So, if you can ignore the product name, and get along with it, no reason not to buy it of course.
maybe Arturia should start selling softcars, a BMW ,Lotus etc, you get a software dashboard and stearing wheel and it looks like you are driving a real car
ReplyDeletei really think it is false advertising
Cray, If the softcar would still get you from A to B, then you'd sort of have of a point ;)
ReplyDelete"i hate when they put effects on the synths, what's the point?"
ReplyDeleteThrowing in bucket loads of effects might lead one to think that the fundamental sound of the instrument could be a little stale.
just dl'd the demo and while I wasn't expecting much, it still sounds more thin lifeless than I thought it might...why aren't there more sample based 'soft synths' where each incremental cutoff, res, etc. value is sampled and incorporated into a nice gui? I've done a bit of this with an OBXa in Kontakt and despite being rather labor-intensive it's much better sounding than any of the virtual analog softies out there.
ReplyDeletecuz sampling all the possibilities when you involve 4 or more knobs needs just a kajillion gigaquads?
ReplyDeleteMore of the same marketing over substance from the company that thinks its ARP, Moog & now Roland
ReplyDeleteSad really because they'll get away with it as they've done so many times before.
So does Roland get a royalty on the profits, and if so, isn't that kind of like a silent endorsement? They've clamped down on other plugin developers on GUIs that look too much like the hardware so I don't see why there would be any exception for Arturia unless they were in on the deal somehow. And while they've kept others from copying their successful designs, on the other hand, they never seem to show interest in reissuing or capitalizing on any of these old classics. They haven't been able to emulate their own analog legacy synths well either.
ReplyDeleteAnyway I just got myself a JP-8 even though I knew ahead of time about the release of this plugin. Love it! I've played a lot of synths and this is one of the greatest of all times, IMO so I feel lucky to have one.
I haven't tried the 8V demo but after playing this old beast, there are a lot of idiosyncrasies, imperfections, and personality that I think could very well get lost in translation.
Having had the opportunity to save lots of space and gobs of money by going with the plugin, I glad I'm more than glad to stick with the HEAVY hardware (for this one at least). ;)