Bazille 1.0

[foosnark]

most of the presets aren't very 'musical'? (Even a lot of the pads aren't very 'paddish'.)

Seriously? I guess half the music in my collection and 90% of the music I've made would probably traumatize you for life...


I do think it's kind of odd that a monster modular would come with so many presets; when I think modular I think giant awesome toybox of infinite possibilities and I will probably never get around to trying most of the presets, aside from the tutorial ones. But this isn't a complaint by any means.

[iNNeRNoiZe]

Install demo -> test some presets -> instabuy !

Love it!

[Kaboom75]

The video shows a CGI rendered blackish Bazille with yellowy orange glowy text is that a skin design that we might get for bazille one day?

[boomsmah]

As much as i try to think of a giant octopus.
this synth is indeed magical synthese. it keeps your mind at what matters the most. finding sounds that you like for your taste. Eventually surprising others with the fact that we are all unique human beings making coherent stuff.
it's just that. Every time i call for Bazille. i'm reliving an episode of Fawlty Towers. Where Sybil is trying to bring him in constrain to manage the hotel.
So become bit more Sybil to manage Bazille.

[ksandvik]

So far I've liked most of the Bazille presets I've tried out. Anyway, one possible option for patch browsers in future is for the end users to mark patches with show/hide flags so the lesser interested patches could be made invisible until there's a need to see all patches via a filter popup or something similar. Or mark patches, but no one to five star, just one star is enough.

[Chapelle]

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[tasmaniandevil]

So far I've liked most of the Bazille presets I've tried out. Anyway, one possible option for patch browsers in future is for the end users to mark patches with show/hide flags so the lesser interested patches could be made invisible until there's a need to see all patches via a filter popup or something similar. Or mark patches, but no one to five star, just one star is enough.

That's exactly what you can do in Bazille. Just right-click on the preset, then select "mark favourite" to give it a star or "mark as junk" to make it disappear. And if you want to see the junk again, just right-click and select "show junk".

[zerocrossing]

most of the presets aren't very 'musical'? (Even a lot of the pads aren't very 'paddish'.)

Seriously? I guess half the music in my collection and 90% of the music I've made would probably traumatize you for life...


I do think it's kind of odd that a monster modular would come with so many presets; when I think modular I think giant awesome toybox of infinite possibilities and I will probably never get around to trying most of the presets, aside from the tutorial ones. But this isn't a complaint by any means.

Yeah, but "infinite" can be daunting. It's one of the main reasons I do modular in software only as if I had to tinker with a hardware modular... I'd probably never actually play music again. I don't discredit people who love the "toy box of infinite possibilities" but there's also something liberating about a simple instrument where the "infinite possibilities" have to come from the way you actually play it. I have to really be in the sound design mood to work in a modular synth.

I know that with myself, when I sat down with the Bazille beta, I went off on a long circuitous journey that led to... a crazy sounding patch that I'd be hard pressed to use in an actual composition. Maybe for a brief sound effect. We all have different ways of working and if basslinemaster is looking for traditionally musical sounding presets, well there are thousands of software solutions for that. Bazille is not that kind of instrument.

[pdxindy]

I know that with myself, when I sat down with the Bazille beta, I went off on a long circuitous journey that led to... a crazy sounding patch that I'd be hard pressed to use in an actual composition. Maybe for a brief sound effect. We all have different ways of working and if Foosnark is looking for traditionally musical sounding presets, well there are thousands of software solutions for that. Bazille is not that kind of instrument.

When I first started using Bazille, it was like that for me too... But over time I started to become more fluid and able to have a destination in mind and actually get there. Like anything, practice improves ones skills.

And while I agree that Bazille is not focused on traditional types of presets, it is quite capable of doing all sorts of such sounds... and doing them very well. Just because it does not come with a bunch of standard EDM presets does not mean I would willingly concede the term musical. I find Bazille to be exceptional for how musically expressive it is. Bazille also lends itself to a natural organic quality that I consider very musical.

A few more 'normal' sounds of mine...

http://draigathar.org/sounds/B7.mp3
http://draigathar.org/sounds/B15.mp3
http://draigathar.org/sounds/B21.mp3
http://draigathar.org/sounds/B25.mp3
http://draigathar.org/sounds/B32.mp3
http://draigathar.org/sounds/B35.mp3

[ksandvik]

So far I've liked most of the Bazille presets I've tried out. Anyway, one possible option for patch browsers in future is for the end users to mark patches with show/hide flags so the lesser interested patches could be made invisible until there's a need to see all patches via a filter popup or something similar. Or mark patches, but no one to five star, just one star is enough.

That's exactly what you can do in Bazille. Just right-click on the preset, then select "mark favourite" to give it a star or "mark as junk" to make it disappear. And if you want to see the junk again, just right-click and select "show junk".

Oh, cool, will try it out. But as I said, have not found a bad patch so far.

[Robmobius]

I'm really digging this synth... For bass it's unreal!!

[JC_]

And while I agree that Bazille is not focused on traditional types of presets, it is quite capable of doing all sorts of such sounds... and doing them very well. Just because it does not come with a bunch of standard EDM presets does not mean I would willingly concede the term musical. I find Bazille to be exceptional for how musically expressive it is. Bazille also lends itself to a natural organic quality that I consider very musical.

A few more 'normal' sounds of mine...

http://draigathar.org/sounds/B7.mp3
http://draigathar.org/sounds/B15.mp3
http://draigathar.org/sounds/B21.mp3
http://draigathar.org/sounds/B25.mp3
http://draigathar.org/sounds/B32.mp3
http://draigathar.org/sounds/B35.mp3

Nice sounds! I agree about Bazille lending itself to organic sounds. To me it's like a living/breathing instrument that can take many different shapes. Everytime I start to think I've heard it all, I stumble upon something new. Bazille might not be a cookie cutter synth but I have a feeling a lot of people are going to be using it to add "special sauce" to their tracks.

[Yatmandu]

B32 - pxindy, a lot of the reason I'll be picking up Bazille are your patches!!

[vespesian]

I know that with myself, when I sat down with the Bazille beta, I went off on a long circuitous journey that led to... a crazy sounding patch that I'd be hard pressed to use in an actual composition. Maybe for a brief sound effect. We all have different ways of working and if Foosnark is looking for traditionally musical sounding presets, well there are thousands of software solutions for that. Bazille is not that kind of instrument.

When I first started using Bazille, it was like that for me too... But over time I started to become more fluid and able to have a destination in mind and actually get there. Like anything, practice improves ones skills.

And while I agree that Bazille is not focused on traditional types of presets, it is quite capable of doing all sorts of such sounds... and doing them very well. Just because it does not come with a bunch of standard EDM presets does not mean I would willingly concede the term musical. I find Bazille to be exceptional for how musically expressive it is. Bazille also lends itself to a natural organic quality that I consider very musical.

A few more 'normal' sounds of mine...

http://draigathar.org/sounds/B7.mp3
http://draigathar.org/sounds/B15.mp3
http://draigathar.org/sounds/B21.mp3
http://draigathar.org/sounds/B25.mp3
http://draigathar.org/sounds/B32.mp3
http://draigathar.org/sounds/B35.mp3

Love B35.

[foosnark]

We all have different ways of working and if Foosnark is looking for traditionally musical sounding presets, well there are thousands of software solutions for that. Bazille is not that kind of instrument.

I think you got some people confused there... somebody else was looking for "traditionally musical sounding presets." My preferences run decidedly non-traditional.

Last night I went through the manual, figured out the few bits that didn't make sense and the possibilities available, and started tinkering. It was pure joy.

For me this is the synth of the year -- quite honestly it's probably the synth of the century. It's absolutely great for tinkering, and it has crazy unabashedly digital oscillators that are super-rich with possibilities. I'm sure I could come up with a long wishlist of things I would change or add, but it would be a serious challenge fitting them into an already very full interface.