what sounds do you make the most?

I can't enough of a supersaw with LP or BP filter, but I'm also sampling bits of sci fi effects and drawing them out into long sonic landscapes. 60's Star Trek tractor beam slowed to an ambient crawl...

Cheers,
B

I love the fact that you can create some nice sound with the analog and COSM section, then sample it and turn into a VariPharse waveform, then mangle it with the VariPhrase functionality, kill with COSM and MFX, then resample again and so on. V-Synth is my most beloved piece of gear for sound design, because it's very capable.

I use my V for everything recently! I don't really think much of the VA section (my other VAs do a better job usually). I just sample clean looped waveforms from analogues and my other VA gear for synth sounds, then build them into patches that the original machines would never be capable of.

Pads are ever morphing and changing.
Bass can be as huge by using layering and resampling.
Leads can be created to cut through no trouble.
And FX....Well we all know how the V does FX!

It's my favourite bit of gear for sure!

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=87078 For a few Synth and Sound design demos.

After using the Fantom for quite some time which is miles better at this VA stuff.

It unforgivable that the V synth is like REALY! bad on VA contsruction
you have no choice but to use the fx and COSM to make any kinda basic sound

You would have thought the FX and COSM should be there to enhance the your VA and not to substitute the lack of...

Realy Lame.


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COSM and FX are not the same thing. The COSM *IS* the filter module, only now its more than a filter and there's some flexibility in where you place it and the TVA. You still have your regular FX at the end too.

The only reason the TVF is called a COSM is because it can be used as an effect totally unlike a filter if you wish. You can use COSM1 as your TVF and COSM2 as an FX additional to the MFX.

The V-Synth is OK as VA, I use the EQ to brighten it up a bit. I still desperately want a Virus but remember people made music before synthesizers. Somehow they made music with what they had...

Cheers,
B

mostly i use the v-synth as a samplemangler. i love the sideband filters and the time and formant features. the va section is ok as a nice add on, but for typical synth sounds i prefer other synths... well i don´t do any eurotrance (or whatever it is called), so i don´t need the supersaw for this...

I respectfully disagree with your statement, Quinnx. The Fantom doesn't actually contain a VA engine; it's sample-playback only. I also use an MC-909 (which, admittedly, doesn't contain the full Fantom X soundset, but is an XV-class engine) and I use it quite differently than I use the V

When I use the VA section of the V, I tend to make aggressive, cutting sounds. Feedback and Xmod oscs make this easy. A bit of random LFO to the feedback osc gives some nice guitar-esque organic feel. And this without engaging COSM or MFX blocks.

You have the choice of free-running oscs (the standard saw/pulse) or phase-static oscs (the HQ oscs) in addition to the "wild" oscs. Yes, they alias in the higher registers. Yes, they exhibit some zippering. I choose to play to the synth's strengths, though. It's currently my only VA, and I can't see adding another (at least until after I've got wavetable, additive and FM synthesis conquered) I can see where you would be dismayed if you were coming to the V after regularly using a Q or a Virus. It's just a different beast.

On the gig, I've used the V for manually playing in autotune-style chorus vocals, for adding a "record grab" effect to some curse words (when making a radio edit) rather than simply deleting them, as well as using the V for some bass duties. No, it's not analog and doesn't do what an analog does. That's why I have the Voyager!

I like making glitchy sounds, messing with the Time parameter so a sound is almost stagnant, then animating it with the controllers. I've recently been pressing the V into service as a standard sampler, building instruments from my own samples. Truth be told, I'm still trying to push the V to its limits.

And it's about time a new sampler offered back-and-forth looping! Haven't seen that since my days with the Ensoniq samplers.

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