New Free Synth from Kia (yes the car manufacturer)

[RobBarnett]

https://www.kia.com/us/en/movement/our-instrument

works as standalone and in Reason

[visheshl]

Hahaha, the whole thing is screwed up car manufacturers are now making synths

[Noise]

BMW, your move now.

[visheshl]

BMW, your move now.

BMW will come up with a more and more aggressive front grille (GUI) for their synths(cars) even if doesn't suit their cars.

Imagine noise engineering guis for a concert piano vst.

[DaveyG]

Let's just hope RS don't do the opposite and try to design a car. You'd have to keep getting out and back in again to make it work.

[platzangst]

HA!

According to their site:

120 BPM is the tempo in which synchronization of the heartbeat elicits the positive, calm focus we need to unlock flow. Increasing the song's speed helps increase this state of focus.

Ages ago, maybe even on the original PUF, there was a thread asking why 120 BPM is the standard opening tempo for new projects in DAWs, and I said essentially the same thing and got widely ridiculed for it. Well, eat it now, haters, KIA's backin' me up!

[Loque]

Wtf?
Is it useful? Anyone tried?

[WOO]

It probably contains subliminal messages that say "go buy a kia go buy a kia" hidden in the background as you play with it.

[tibah]

Seems rather like a collection of foley/fieldrecordings, wrapped into a sampler engine than a synth?

NOW if they went to capture some of motor sounds as the KIA collection that would be a thing!

Stihl anyone?

[platzangst]

Wtf?
Is it useful? Anyone tried?

I tried using the standalone version and maybe I'm an idiot but I can't get it to do anything I want.

There's the ambient generator, a pulse-width VCO, a noise generator, and a sort of LFO. The LFO's rate is tied to the keyboard.

As far as I can tall, all the musical sounds are generated by the VCO and the noise generator. The ambient background sounds just play at one given level depending on how high you have it in the mixer - you cannot modulate the ambient sounds, which is of course the thing I would want to do most. I suppose in Reason I could take the output and filter it however I like, but I could also stick a field recording in a sampler for a far wider set of options. Cute gimmick at best.

[BRIGGS]

When Lambo?

[dioxide]

Yamaha did it first.

[dvdrtldg]

From the website:





Who on earth is this sort of thing aimed at

[Bes]

lots of car manufactureres already do ASD to augment the roar of the engine etc to me it makes sense for a car manufacturer to explore other sound environments to morph through while you're driving. they probably also thought if someone scored a tv show or did a song with those sounds they could for sure use it to boost advertising

[Catblack]

From the website:





Who on earth is this sort of thing aimed at

Oh for fucks sake. This sort of ear training shit is the domain of con men. Had a friend who was a web designer. She got a serious BF. Dude claimed to have created all this subliminal ear training bullshit. I helped him code a website to sell it to companies in exchange for part of the revenue. I got nothing because he sold nothing and as far as 'music' he created to embed subliminals under it was the most placid new agey crap and no wonder it never sold. He'd have had a hard time selling that shit on cassette in 1987 door to door let alone on a website in 2012. Motherfucker wasn't even into actually creating music, and now a decade later he's broke as fuck and still posting things like links to synths he'll never afford on facebook and then I'll be responding 'hey, you can use VCV for free and do everything that synth does' and still he's too lazy to use it.

Oh look, music stimulates the brainwaves. WELL WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT WITH A STIMULATED BRAIN, KIA? A VST, KIA? REALLY? You think that people who spend money on VSTs gonna want to buy one of your cars? Oh, right, can they run it on the onboard computer on the dashboard? Let's encourage the drivers of our cars to make ambient white noise music, that will keep you stimulated on those long commutes. What the shitting hell Kia?

[electricthing]

Can you play 'Fahren, fahren, fahren auf der Autobahn' with it?

Or do I need the VolksWagen-Digitaler Audio Werkstatt for that?

[dvdrtldg]

I think Kia should make a cool sports coupe and when you buy it, you also get licenses for Ableton Live and Bitwig

They could call it a "Two-DAW convertible"

Thank you, you've been a shitty audience! I'm here all week

[jam-s]

They are a little bit early for an April's fools gag.

[Rising Night Wave]

Let's just hope RS don't do the opposite and try to design a car. You'd have to keep getting out and back in again to make it work.

[Rising Night Wave]

It probably contains subliminal messages that say "go buy a kia go buy a kia" hidden in the background as you play with it.

[visheshl]

"Two-DAW convertible"

[motuscott]

analog farfegnugen

[Loque]

analog farfegnugen

Analoges Fahrvergnügen?

[arnigretar]

So Reason 13 will be a new car. Reason Studios Car made for the future. With lots of CV!

[dvdrtldg]

So Reason 13 will be a new car. Reason Studios Car made for the future. With lots of CV!

Citroen already did it, although the technology was in its early stages and there were only 2 CV inputs