a challenge to creamware ASB?

[faxinadu]

hmmm i donno
u guys know i love cw

but how can u say noah/asb over that nice arturia box?

i would take the arturia in this particular battle i think.

[darkrezin]

Sorry no offence but Arturia's modelling is weak.. I can't see them selling many of these hardware synths.

[Shroomz~>]

The Noah EX kicks the ass off the Arturia Origin if you don't look at all the knobs, buttons & big graphic LCD on the Origns' nice desktop chassis.

If the secrets of sdk building for the Noah were made available it would be untouchable for many many years to come.

[HUROLURA]

I would not make me a strict opinion about the Origin before having heard it. One shouldn't compare sound quality of PC/MAC plug-ins versus DSP based ones like CW.

More-other, it looks like what is available in Origin would be emulation for:
- CS 80
- ARP 2600
- Moog Modular

for which there are no equivalent on CW platform to allow direct benchmark

- Prophet V which can be seen as a mix of CW Pro12 + Vectron
- Minimoog which could be compared with CW Minimax

Once again, I guess only some earing test would allow to tell if this unit can compete or (which could be better) comme as an add-on to a CW based setup.

CheerZ

[Shroomz~>]

- CS 80
- ARP 2600
- Moog Modular

All of which should be possible sonically with the CW modular + Flexor modules.

[husker]

Is personally like the sound of the CS80V, and it is very unique synth design (the original that is). Be very interesting to hear the SHARC based version...

The significant thing about Origin is you can mix and match modules from thar various synths together, not quite a modular, but pretty impressive for a 'hardware' synth without having to have a PC gui involved. The flexibility sounds somewhat akin to spacef plug-in philosophy, which I think suits alot of people who don't want to wire up their own modular synth with a mouse (like Clavia or Scope Mod).

[hifiboom]

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[valis]

I wonder if this unit will Improve arturia's sound. Their filters are a tad too clinical for me in their native stuff, and the guts to their synths all seem to be based on their original moog modular, at least until SoS points this out in their review & Arturia makes minor tweaks to the osc algorithms & signal chain. Nothing terribly impressive sonically especially considering the cpu overhead of even the less complex synths.

[DSP ADD!CT]

exactly,

the cs80 is way to heavy on cpu for what it delivers...for example the gforce minimonsta isnt very light also but it has a very good sound.
i am a bit curious bout the jupiter8v though, hope it isnt based on the other vst's they made.

[valis]

exactly,

the cs80 is way to heavy on cpu for what it delivers...

I think the usual joke about this vsti is that's the power it takes to keep the fans running.

[hifiboom]

lol...
yeah the fans are very important....

[DSP ADD!CT]

LMFAO!