Auryn wrote: ↑18 Sep 2018
Loque wrote: ↑18 Sep 2018
Completely agree to the GUI.
The sound morphing can be done today with Europa or eXpanse too, but Oberon has the biggest working displays
. Sample loading and modifiers are also not the standalone feature for Oberon anymore. A workflow optimization and a few new unique features would be really good for Oberon. It is a good synth, a good addition, but not a must have today anymore.
Wow you guys really dislike the GUI that much? I'm surprised. Anyway, it isn't true that the sort of morphing that Oberon does can easily be done with either Europa or Expanse. Neither of those synths can actually morph between oscillators, whereas with Oberon you can dynamically morph between oscillators that have different note/octave settings as well as different harmonic content (or non-harmonic as the case may be). The sounds that Oberon produces using the morph function are certainly not available in any other synth. The "bend" and "partial clip" controls are also unique.
Oberon is also the only synth that actually imports samples non-destructively (e.g. it doesn't "rectify" the harmonic content in the way expanse or europa seem to do) but you can control the amount of harmonization manually. It doesn't work that well for beats (but then neither does europa or expanse) but for voices, brass and such Oberon is actually quite convincing.
Anyway, you may not like the gui, or the included presets, but to say that Oberon doesn't bring any unique features is just not true! It's probably one of the only RE synths that is completely one-of-a-kind in it's architecture and sound.
The GUI is not that ugly, its just bad to work with imo, its unlogical to me.
Well, you may be right here with the morphing- i remember that Oberon had something with the tone and notes... Europa and eXpanse can morph between waveforms. Spectra is one of the newer synths, which allows morphing between two spectra with some additional parameters (dunno if bend and partials are explicitly there, but there are several ways to combine the harmonic content).
I am actually not sure what Oberon can do with its morphing in every detail, but changing the frequency of waveform to the other should do the trick in Europa or eXpanse too, or am i wrong here? Might not be so comfortable to do this like the one-knob in Oberon anyway.
Guess, i need to look at the sample import in more detail. AFAIR Oberon was quite cool to generate metallic sounds in general. And i should compare a bit in more detail the differences of Grain, Europa and eXpanse with sample loading. Maybe Proton is interesting here too...i will have a look.