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You can save patches, automate them, and making complete songs is just faster. I've actually gone back into the computer and gotten rid of a bunch of hardware synths but I spend a lot of time making decent MIDI controllers for them. Add a midi controller to get the tactile response and feel. The latter will take longer but you can get exactly what you want (or possibly randomly stumble across something you like).

PLOGUE BIDULE SAMPLE LAYOUT MAC PATCH

Have you already tried other things like Reaktor or some other modular based soft synth? Compare a pre-patched soft synth to something like making a custom patch in Reaktor. It's something I build for me exactly how I want to interact with the instrument. I don't have to design a PSU or case every time I want sth new or to try out a new idea. I also like the modular because I can design and build all of the pieces one at a time. If you only use it for basic synth patches, I guess there's not much point - if you had to pick, that is. tactile feedback, experimentation, 'pleasing accidents', and very specific sounds that need much more fine-tuning than any HW synth I've used. I've realised that I have to use it for what it's good for. And like I said earlier, the more you know it the better off you are. or even worse, replace portions of it like you can with a modular) so it's quicker to learn. They layout is fixed (you can't move the filter, VCA, etc. The Mono/Poly is a fairly simple synth but I can get tons of sounds out of it than I originally thought it was capable of. These synths I know very well because I've had them for a long time.

I love the poly-evolver, my beloved Mono/Poly, a simple 303, DX7 (although this one is a real brain task to get edited), etc. I've found if I want something out of my head quickly, initially, it's faster to do with a partially or fully prepatched hardware synth.

It's also 'easy' to get lost in the modular synth. I've found this with my own system and fully stand behind the fact that it is better to have less you know well than more that you know little. To that end, I'll also say it's not the easiest thing to wrap your head around since even learning a single module can take months. I think most folks start off small and, if they stick with it, end up doing more and more with it. I'll be more than happy to answer and ask more specific questions if needed.Īs far as I can tell, (even Eurorack) modular is the most expensive way to realise a hardware synth as I'm sure you're finding out. I'm sitting here jumping between picking up a moog slim phatty, Reaktor 6, or buying my modular case/skiff. My words are lost with me as I'm trying to rack my brain. I do a few different genres, but mostly diving into the minimal house kind of stuff. So the investment I'll be making into modular would have to be something I'd for sure use as a creative tool in my productions. However, I only have a limited budget to buy a new piece of gear each month. As I've progressed more and more into my production, I've really come to fall in love with modular. But I am having such a hard time biting the bullet.Īll my life, I've always been into the whole 'building' thing. I'm under the impression right now that a VCO, VCF, VCA, Mult, and a few other random things are needed to get a good thing going here. While so much of it didn't make sense, a lot of it is starting. I've taken on the last week of non-stop research. I don't quite understand how this should work, as each instrument is controlled by only a single MIDI channel.I'm soooo incredibly interested in getting into Eurorack modular. In your setup, you are running a separate Play instance for each instrument, and then you load several articulations per instrument into that Play instance, each on a different MIDI channel.

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(I would probably need a second computer and something like Vienna Ensemble Pro to handle a full orchestra, in particular as I would be interested in using multiple articulations.) (Play has some purge functionality, but it is more limited, only useful when the score is already fixed, which is not terribly useful in an environment like Opumodus). I wish Play would have a purge feature similar to Kontakt, where you can basically start with an empty patch, and all samples needed are by and by loaded. I can confirm that in principle your setup works on my computer (Opusmodus can control sound playback of the instruments), but even when I reduce the bidule-file to only the string section, my machine has difficulties handling it. Wow - this setup is a true monster, and way too much for my poor mere 8GB laptop (with unfortunately no way to extend the memory). I just got a copy of EW ComposerCloud and had a look at this.

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