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How many synths do you need? – haQ VLog 35
How many synths do you need, a question that viewer John Holland asked me through Twitter. Well, in this vlog I am giving you my five cents on the topic.
I realized that after recording this blog, I hadn’t answered John’s question completely. He actually linked to comment made by @MirEiko, here on the Audiobus forum.
LINK: http://thesoundtestroom.com/how-many-synths-havlog35/
Comments
I own all of them, but right now there's only gadget, lorentz and stria in my ipad
must focus...
As a guitar player, I own over 35 of them, if you include Piano style, and Bebot and Thumbjam, not just traditional ones.
How many does a guitar player need? lol.......All of them, I need
I have over 80, more depending what people would include. They have all cost less than one of my many old hardware synths. So my take on it is....why not? Do I find it difficult to find what I need? No. Do I just use presets? No. Do I have fun and enjoyment playing and programming them? Yes. Do I want more? Yes.
Different sound sources and ways of working, create ideas. Ideas create fun music making. Fun music making calms me in a otherwise mad world.
Great topic Jakob! I agree with everything you said. We should give credit and view developers as artists. Creating an app that has power in what it can do and its user interface is a work of art. I say more the better! We are very lucky to live in an age where we have so many apps to choose from. Now let's have some fun making music!
For me it is like asking 'How many actors do you need to watch?'
+1
One aspect that has not been mentioned is the different types of synthesis. It could be argued that if you have a really great subtractive synth, you don't need a load more which will basically cover the same ground. But that will not give the same sounds as an FM synth, or an additive, etc. So if you want to cover all the bases (and again that is a choice), then you probably need at least half a dozen synths. But of course, not many of us have the will power to stop there!
@pierre @High5denied @Fruitbat1979 @Flo26 @mkell424 @AudioGus @Moderndaycompiler @PhilW
These are all great comments! I'll be making a vlog where I am reading comments I've received on the topic. Stay tuned
LOL.... i need a few.... but i want them all!
For me I don't believe in good or bad sounds, if it works, it works. Synths are similar, but don't underestimate the 'fun factor' as well as the sound they produce.
I always need one more than the amount I have
I enjoy the fact that one of Jakob's criteria for choosing a synth is "Does it make my brain melt?" What isn't clear is if this brain melting is a good thing or not. I just picked up iVCS3 and it certainly does this, in a good way, generally.
As a non keyboard player with a dozen synth apps, it is comforting to know that I'm not alone in always wanting more. I probably don't need more. I do have a few synth heavyweights brewing in my app wish list, waiting to be snatched up on sale, however.
At the end of the day, I've spent about as much on a dozen synth apps as a single dinner out at a nice resto, so in the end, the dollar spent per hours entertained on most synth apps is relatively high.
Could have really called it a day with sunrizer, ivcs3, isem, Thor and Animoog but the world is full of surprises ain't it?
There are lots of great synths on iOS for sure but I still think there's always plenty of room for more, especially ones designed for the ipad touch screen and not just ports from hardware, which there are relatively few, like TC-11
I would like to see a Eurorack synth. Designed similar to Modular, but once passed the basic setup, I would like to see IAP modules that are replicated circuits from actual hardware similar to the Roland sh101 software replication.
I would like to see a better and customisable inteface rack, with a thoughtful way to zoom, scroll and plug cables. I would like each module to be an AU effect, so that when buying the modules from different companies, they would work in many daws, but show as rack units within this Modular app.
I have to much just like the next guy.
but what do I use in the end?
it's these 4.
sunrizer (poly va), ivcs3(mono am, fm, rm, pwm and everything at the same time),nave(poly wavetable), ipulsaret (poly granular), if I would like fm I would have a Nr. 5 for that...
what they all have in common is that they all have a very simple to use interface with endless possibilities and a great sound. Of course my opinion on what I like is biased as hell because I had my fingers in the making of some of these tools, so they suit the way I think.
Can I have more please?
Apps are like marbles, you can't have too many!
On the other hand it's fun to do stuff with lot of simple things chained, with the right eq setting its so easy to make anything say Aaaah or ooh and breath life into the most boring sound that way...
Very much like the older cheap Analog hardware. Synths like the Junos were quite lacking, but when we used to chain some guitar pedals with them...WOW
Yes, that's what I used to do in the 90s, I couldn't afford to buy a Jupiter 8, I only had a sequential multitrack - so I needed to be tricky to get something done, lol
I still do my music like this, only the tools have changed.
I'm still amazed by the tools I have on my iPad compared to my hardware studio of days gone by. What an age we live in, when I can take a full blown studio (more or less) around my mates house and all in one bag!
My future is going to be many touch devices all built onto one synth sized board....with proper wooden end cheeks! Lol
When I think of how much money I did spend then for music equipment - and it did sound like shit compared to anything I am doing on the iPad now. Lol
I found an old dat with demos, haha, I couldn't listen to that anymore, it was so noisy, em, noise of the unwanted kind ...
on the other hand I know what I am doing now, If I had known then what I know now maybe it wouldn't have been so awful? Lol
And mains hum, fan noise, faulty midi cables, sysex backup, soldering cables, faulty backup harddrives, smoke induced faulty faders....the list goes on.
I had a little book where I wrote in what jack goes where in the patchbay for what track, it took forever to go halfway back to some setting, lol
now I just press the audiobus save button:)
and every time the fridge started its cooling cycle everything went bananas, rofl
@lala
You had a fridge in your studio....how posh! Lol
I like to drink sugary black water at low temperatures.
I should have missed something
I need synths that will cover a wide range of musical styles. GB is my DAW; Music Studio, ThumbJam and bs-16i can cover a fair amount of ground, so I'm not so much looking for tweaking synths as I am a decent collection of presets. The iFretless apps help here as well, so I will go and DL one of them back if needed. I'm constantly bringing back apps I've deleted just to reacquaint myself with them and their present worth.
I thought I had 35 +. But......... I would like to change that to 50+. I had no idea I was that synthNuts! I love how I can control synths with Geo, Thumbjam, Soundprisim, and more. It makes me not so sucky at synths. lol....