So, my question is - out of all that they have (Poltergeist, Pulse, Tectronic, Kraft, Nautilus2 in particular caught my eye, due to more modern GUIs) which 2-max 3 would you recommend me getting, for basses, pads and leads in psychedelic trance music like this:
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I see that they have a sale (permanent, it seems?) on most of their synths. Reading through some topics I hear people praise their sound & presets, but complain about them being IDTs which means they're limited in what you can really "synthesize". Now personally I'm more of a preset guy, ie. I'll take a preset, tweak it and add external effects to make it my own, so I don't care that much. I also have more than few "deep" synths if I ever needed to get more sound design-ey.
So, my question is - out of all that they have (Poltergeist, Pulse, Tectronic, Kraft, Nautilus2 in particular caught my eye, due to more modern GUIs) which 2-max 3 would you recommend me getting, for basses, pads and leads in psychedelic trance music like this:
So, my question is - out of all that they have (Poltergeist, Pulse, Tectronic, Kraft, Nautilus2 in particular caught my eye, due to more modern GUIs) which 2-max 3 would you recommend me getting, for basses, pads and leads in psychedelic trance music like this:
Kraft is their best Synth for me. The effects section is super fun, but thats based on my own experimental approach to music! The whole synth overall I got on with better than the others I have, so the GUI also stood out for me for usability.antic604 wrote: ↑08 Aug 2018I see that they have a sale (permanent, it seems?) on most of their synths. Reading through some topics I hear people praise their sound & presets, but complain about them being IDTs which means they're limited in what you can really "synthesize". Now personally I'm more of a preset guy, ie. I'll take a preset, tweak it and add external effects to make it my own, so I don't care that much. I also have more than few "deep" synths if I ever needed to get more sound design-ey.
So, my question is - out of all that they have (Poltergeist, Pulse, Tectronic, Kraft, Nautilus2 in particular caught my eye, due to more modern GUIs) which 2-max 3 would you recommend me getting, for basses, pads and leads in psychedelic trance music like this:
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Kraft is my favourite and I did do a lot presets for that one...
Solaris 5 and Orbis are others I really like...
I do have most of them and they all have their part to play in my rack...
As for being IDT, people are being a little silly over that, wack them in a combinator and you have 8 CV knobs to play with, use an EMI and you can play with them all... Look at the CV option on the back of ReSpire....... Say no more....
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Solaris 5 and Orbis are others I really like...
I do have most of them and they all have their part to play in my rack...
As for being IDT, people are being a little silly over that, wack them in a combinator and you have 8 CV knobs to play with, use an EMI and you can play with them all... Look at the CV option on the back of ReSpire....... Say no more....
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At the moment I'm checking out Poltergeist and Tectonic, they are rather good, however, what's going on with their website? www.skrockmusic.com Looks like a hackers got in and deleted nearly everything! There's no manuals for anything apart from Pulse and there's only 2 synths mentioned on the site.
Some corrections
Firstly, they are not "IDTs." The IDT (Instrument Development Toolkit) is something that is used to make Rack Extensions. It's the equivalent of saying "Skrock makes Instrument Development Toolkits"
Secondly, CV found directly on a device is different than assigning CV via Combinator (which is limited and more like automation). Same goes for assigning CV to a VST device (not the same).
That said, developers of Rack Extensions made with the IDT can add more CV connections to the device. As an example, Skrock added some CV connections to Solar 5.
And lastly, yes these and others are sampled-based synths, but that is certainly not something new and not specific to the synths made with the IDT.
So yeah, not sure at this point the reason for anybody to turn their nose up at a synth based on the toolkit used to make it. If you want a synth with more CV connections, there are plenty out there and you can certainly request more connections regardless of how the synth is made. You can of course still base your buying decisions on CV connections and/or sample-based synthesis, but that really has much less to do with the IDT and how people associate it. Hope that helps
Of the Skrock synths, Solar 5 is my favorite and might be a great fit for what you are looking for. I also like Iridium which gets less attention.
Firstly, they are not "IDTs." The IDT (Instrument Development Toolkit) is something that is used to make Rack Extensions. It's the equivalent of saying "Skrock makes Instrument Development Toolkits"
Secondly, CV found directly on a device is different than assigning CV via Combinator (which is limited and more like automation). Same goes for assigning CV to a VST device (not the same).
That said, developers of Rack Extensions made with the IDT can add more CV connections to the device. As an example, Skrock added some CV connections to Solar 5.
And lastly, yes these and others are sampled-based synths, but that is certainly not something new and not specific to the synths made with the IDT.
So yeah, not sure at this point the reason for anybody to turn their nose up at a synth based on the toolkit used to make it. If you want a synth with more CV connections, there are plenty out there and you can certainly request more connections regardless of how the synth is made. You can of course still base your buying decisions on CV connections and/or sample-based synthesis, but that really has much less to do with the IDT and how people associate it. Hope that helps
Of the Skrock synths, Solar 5 is my favorite and might be a great fit for what you are looking for. I also like Iridium which gets less attention.
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Kraft is my favourite, and Solaris 5 is also good. I’m not a huge fan of the others, but these two sound good, and Kraft is quite a well-designed unit, if you ever do want to do some sound designing. All that said, I have hardly used the presets on Kraft, but can attest to some good stuff in the Solaris 5 patches.
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Poltergeists is one of his best. As well as kraft
And if you get Solaris or solar 5 what ever it’s called. You’ll have his best work in my opinion
The other synths are still good, but you can achieve the same types of sounds having those 3
Poltergeist is a bit unique as it has the modern IDT functions like the frequency shifter and granular effects I think it has a few CVs as well? Or maybe I’m thinking of that new dual synth
And if you get Solaris or solar 5 what ever it’s called. You’ll have his best work in my opinion
The other synths are still good, but you can achieve the same types of sounds having those 3
Poltergeist is a bit unique as it has the modern IDT functions like the frequency shifter and granular effects I think it has a few CVs as well? Or maybe I’m thinking of that new dual synth
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I wondered about the web site as well... went looking to see if there was anything to say how many patches Tectonic comes with.... was curious... but I have a bunch of their synths alreadyNamyo85 wrote: ↑08 Aug 2018At the moment I'm checking out Poltergeist and Tectonic, they are rather good, however, what's going on with their website? www.skrockmusic.com Looks like a hackers got in and deleted nearly everything! There's no manuals for anything apart from Pulse and there's only 2 synths mentioned on the site.
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+1 for Iridium, it's a beast and quite unique
My top three would be Iridium, Kraft, Solar 5
I'm a big fan of Pulse for it's simple layout (I'm not into complex sound design) and its fantastic Roland-y glossy 80s sound.
Thanks @all for your feedback! I've checked some of them last night and so far Poltergeist sticks out the most as sounding 'different'
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Anyone use Thermal? That's an interesting looking device.
https://shop.propellerheads.se/rack-extension/thermal/
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Im using an instance of poltergeist and a few of tectonic in this demo.
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One word! The demo is pure DOPE!
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And they are so good to REndomize ... Love them for the price tag.
I'd be very interested in a collab/feature with Skrock to offer a discount for owners of his products, as they are a good fit for my tool.
I'd be very interested in a collab/feature with Skrock to offer a discount for owners of his products, as they are a good fit for my tool.
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I've made SO MUCH music with these things. Love em.
Looks like the site is a work in progress, details for Tectonic have appeared now.
bought it but still haven't checked the patches... bought go to and rnd
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I love the sound of Solaris, Kraft is pretty nice to. I would love to have VST versions of theses. Depending on the day I don't always have time to spend hours making patches from scratch and these devices provide some instant gratification with minor tweaks hear and there.
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