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Aiynzahev · Post by **Aiynzahev** » Sat Jun 13, 2015 2:57 pm

Wavetable functions in Cypher, absolutely! It's perfect for it.

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Sat Jun 13, 2015 5:03 pm

elnn wrote:Cypher offers a different in approach in the process of making sound from Strobe and the like. It feels modern, but idiosyncratically enveloped in analogue architecture. Modern techniques would not feel at all alien to such synth - with its current feature set, their addition would feel as an actual extension of its functionality, rather than a cumbersome bout of maximalistic design attitude ('the more, the better')

Idiosyncratic is a good word for it. Once you get your head around those idiosyncrasies, it makes you appreciate it even more. If FXpansion is going to have an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink, I'd rather it be one instrument instead of two.

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Sun Jun 14, 2015 1:28 am

The quirkiness of Cypher is the reason I purchased synth squad. I'd imagine if they were sold separately I would likely have only purchased it. Please don't dumb down or over simplify it in v2!

Angus_FX · Post by **Angus_FX** » Sun Jun 14, 2015 9:00 am

Dumbing down is very much not the plan. However, if we're building wavetable, we wouldn't necessarily want to make it available only in something as complex as Cypher.

By the time you add the new engine-wide Strobe2 features to Cypher (sequencers, extra modulation, effects - and the Cypher version of some of those is likely to be a bit tweakier than Strobe's), it really is quite a beast - personally I'd rather see wavetable get its own synth, without the need to dumb down. Cypher is already north of 100 parameters before considering TransMod!

V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Sun Jun 14, 2015 9:41 am

Angus_FX wrote: personally I'd rather see wavetable get its own synth, without the need to dumb down

A Fxpansion wavetable/wavescanning synth with transmod would be so nice.

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:24 pm

*cough*

This is a dumb thing I did... but whateverz....

jsp1979 · Post by **jsp1979** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:27 pm

So, what does the Frasier wave sound like?

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:42 pm

jsp1979 wrote:So, what does the Frasier wave sound like?

Sounds like Kelsey Grammer struggling to pick between two doors!!

_leras · Post by **_leras** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:11 pm

Angus_FX wrote:Dumbing down is very much not the plan. However, if we're building wavetable, we wouldn't necessarily want to make it available only in something as complex as Cypher.

By the time you add the new engine-wide Strobe2 features to Cypher (sequencers, extra modulation, effects - and the Cypher version of some of those is likely to be a bit tweakier than Strobe's), it really is quite a beast - personally I'd rather see wavetable get its own synth, without the need to dumb down. Cypher is already north of 100 parameters before considering TransMod!

Couldn't you just have a toggle between standard and wave table oscillators?

Angus_FX · Post by **Angus_FX** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 11:42 am

Could do. Same as we *could* have a bunch of completely different filter circuits in Strobe on the flick of a switch. But my preference is to build instruments with personality, not do-everything-and-the-kitchen-sink megasynths.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 7:13 pm

So Synth Squad v2 is so imminent, that soundsets are being released for it already

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 1&t=440343

_leras · Post by **_leras** » Sat Jun 20, 2015 8:20 am

Angus_FX wrote:Could do. Same as we *could* have a bunch of completely different filter circuits in Strobe on the flick of a switch. But my preference is to build instruments with personality, not do-everything-and-the-kitchen-sink megasynths.

Fair enough. I imagine that it depends on how simple or complex you're thinking of wavetable oscillators being.

Simple wavetables can offer an extension to the sin saw pulse without needing much architecture or character change.

If wavetable is the primary focus then I imagine you would want a totally new synth and fundamentals being more complex and wavetable focused e.g. allowing sequencer driven wavetable scanning etc

Anyway, very much looking forward to the v2's!.

dave dove · Post by **dave dove** » Sat Jun 20, 2015 9:41 am

a proper/modern wavetable synth with DCam tone would be a killer

dave

knowix · Post by **knowix** » Sat Jun 20, 2015 11:24 am

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Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Sat Jun 20, 2015 12:26 pm

Numanoid wrote:So Synth Squad v2 is so imminent, that soundsets are being released for it already

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 1&t=440343

Very strange. For more reasons than i can prob say here.

All good things come to those who wait.. the Synth Squad 2 thread