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wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 11:59 am

BDeep wrote:Well, ACE sounds incredible, we'll have to wait and see how this new thing performs when it comes out (bit hard to say without demoing eh? Oh yeah... that's right...)

Incredible? Zebra 2 sounds incredible. ACE sounds like a basic VA synth with a few fancy modulation routings. It is far from an incredible sounding synth. At least in my definition of the word "incredible."

In fact, I would use the word "incredible" to define very few synths.

ACE is certainly not one of them.

KingClarkie · Post by **KingClarkie** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 12:28 pm

wagtunes wrote:Let's see what I've gotten for under $100. Some of these may have been on sale.

Synthmaster - $60
ACE - $85
Discovery Pro - $95
Korg Legacy Collection - $100
MUX Modular - $61
KarmaFX Modular - $72
Sonic Acadamy ANA - $80
MPowersynth - $88
Waves Element - $76
Harmor - $60
Z3ta+2 - $50

I don't think this is an accurate price comparison. These are the prices I can find today:

SynthMaster (Standard) $83
ACE €69
Discovery Pro $169/€149
KORG Legacy Collection $199.99
MUX Modular €59
KarmaFX Modular $112
Sonic Academy ANA £50
MPowersynth $167/€149
Waves Element $79 (sale) $200 (regular)
Harmor €139
z3ta+ 2 £79

That puts Carbon Electra towards the lower end of this section of the market.

As far as the synth goes, based on the demo, I agree there's nothing that screams 'must have' and if you've already got a few decent synths it's unlikely to be of much interest. But if you haven't I can see the attraction of a reasonably priced 'power' synth, maybe as a step up from the usual freeware/magware synths that a beginner might start out with.

Frantz · Post by **Frantz** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 12:31 pm

Not to be confused with Tone2 Electra.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 12:37 pm

KingClarkie wrote:
wagtunes wrote:Let's see what I've gotten for under $100. Some of these may have been on sale.

Synthmaster - $60
ACE - $85
Discovery Pro - $95
Korg Legacy Collection - $100
MUX Modular - $61
KarmaFX Modular - $72
Sonic Acadamy ANA - $80
MPowersynth - $88
Waves Element - $76
Harmor - $60
Z3ta+2 - $50
I don't think this is an accurate price comparison. These are the prices I can find today:

SynthMaster (Standard) $83
ACE €69
Discovery Pro $169/€149
KORG Legacy Collection $199.99
MUX Modular €59
KarmaFX Modular $112
Sonic Academy ANA £50
MPowersynth $167/€149
Waves Element $79 (sale) $200 (regular)
Harmor €139
z3ta+ 2 £79

That puts Carbon Electra towards the lower end of this section of the market.

As far as the synth goes, based on the demo, I agree there's nothing that screams 'must have' and if you've already got a few decent synths it's unlikely to be of much interest. But if you haven't I can see the attraction of a reasonably priced 'power' synth, maybe as a step up from the usual freeware/magware synths that a beginner might start out with.

I'm just reporting what I paid for those synths. And if you wait for sales (which these run fairly often) you can probably get them for those prices or close to them.

Now, if Carbon Electra runs a sale and you can pick it up for a short time for $50, I'd say grab it. That's an amazing price for a synth that can do what this synth can do. But $99? Not when there is stuff out there priced less that can do more and sounds just as good if not better.

Robmobius · Post by **Robmobius** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 1:01 pm

I like the looks and layout. Sounds pretty good too... Some nice features.

I'd definitely buy this, if I didn't have a ton of other soft synths.

But my interest has been peaked enough to try the demo.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 2:46 pm

As this being released by PluginBoutique, I guess it would be the same devs doing Carbon Electra as did Virtual CZ ?

In case of that this new synth most def would be worth a look when it appears.

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 2:53 pm

Frantz wrote:Not to be confused with Tone2 Electra.

The name is almost a "Carbon" copy of Electra

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 2:59 pm

So it will be a fine german blend of Berlinian and Bavarian software

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 3:04 pm

lnikj wrote:
BDeep wrote:Well, ACE sounds incredible, we'll have to wait and see how this new thing performs when it comes out (bit hard to say without demoing eh? Oh yeah... that's right...)
I agree. I find it hard to believe that this will better it, but we'll see

+1

I love the sound quality of ACE

BDeep · Post by **BDeep** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 3:20 pm

Numanoid wrote:As this being released by PluginBoutique, I guess it would be the same devs doing Carbon Electra as did Virtual CZ ?

In case of that this new synth most def would be worth a look when it appears.

Not necessarily, Big Kick was done by another developer: www.credland.net

Sim.Sky · Post by **Sim.Sky** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 3:28 pm

Numanoid wrote:So it will be a fine german blend of Berlinian and Bavarian software

this was just the exact image i had in mind when i heard of the name

db3 · Post by **db3** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 3:49 pm

^^^^^this^^^^^

Orbit-50 · Post by **Orbit-50** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 5:25 pm

db3 wrote:^^^^^this^^^^^

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db3 · Post by **db3** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 5:30 pm

lol

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2013 ... ctra_5.jpg

Timman · Post by **Timman** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:13 pm

Looks interesting indeed but not sure about the price.
I'll try it anyway

Plugin Boutique will release late in July Carbon Electra Synth