Opinions on RP's QUAD synth?

[Prints]

What are people's thoughts on this one? It wasn't really on my Radar until this sale.

[eusti]

People seem to like it. I personally cannot wrap my head around it... Not that I don't understand how it's supposed to work... But I cannot get it to sound too interesting... I like Predator way better... One of the few REs that I like less than I thought... Maybe I just need to spend more time with it...

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[4filegate]

spend a lot of time with Quad, accurate send/return MasterFx by Quad HQ FX section - usability

[doinky]

I tried it. But didn't buy it. The patches that came with it did not impress me. Everything I tried with it made it sound like it was off tune. I just could not get the sounds to fit in to anything musical.

[Majestik Monkey]

Quad is a Strange Beast ! 

It would seem with Quad - Less is more !  What i mean is . . . most people will just pile on Tons of Phaze Distortion & Wave shape. 
i know, i did it myself & it just resulted in a Mass of Noise .

Since i started to use much Less of both  Phaze & shape ' the results are much better . i look at the Phaze & Shaper as a Colouring Tool 
rather than changing the shape of the wave . . . 

[zeebot]

Well here is an entry I made for the Quad comp when it was released.
Yes I guess its a 'listen to my track' self promo thing but it also gives a good idea of how the synth sounds and if you think its for you. Personally I think its great for bass and pads.
All QUAD apart from drums and vocals...

[Majestik Monkey]

Well here is an entry I made for the Quad comp when it was released.
Yes I guess its a 'listen to my track' self promo thing but it also gives a good idea of how the synth sounds and if you think its for you. Personally I think its great for bass and pads.
All QUAD apart from drums and vocals...

Superb Track ZeeBot '  :t2018:

If this track does not convince anyone of [Quad's capabilities] i don't know what would !

[alex]

Quad inspires me to start from scratch and make my own patches. It's the synth that resembles to me that feelings of freedom and completeness I had with Thor.

[Benedict]

Here is my track from the same Comp



You can probably hear a commonality of sound from ZeeBot's track. I didn't buy Quad but that was because I feel pretty full of synths already.

Quad is definitely an interesting approach and like Mr Monkey says, caution generally delivers better sounds. We are seeing an influx of more digital synths right now (with some in the pipe) so the world is interesting and worth Trying to find the approach that suits you better.

[Emian]

its a great synth, very warm sound & i love it for bass a lot !
here's a link to all tracks of the Quad contest (including mine). that should give you a good idea
 

[zeebot]

Superb Track ZeeBot '  :t2018:

If this track does not convince anyone of [Quad's capabilities] i don't know what would !

Hey thanks for that
Much appreciated 

[MirEko]

Yeah I never really liked it, to much faffing to get a sound I liked from it.

[dvdrtldg]

Same experience here as many others on this thread - I found Quad to be too odd for musical sounds, but also too "straight" for really out-there weird noise. Maybe I didn't spend enough time with it, but it seemed sort of limited and hard-wired to a fairly narrow palette of sounds.

[thotbott]

I think quad is fantastic, but you need to be using it in a combinator with the likes of band splitters etc to make it truely shine, wave and phase shaping are an absolute pain in the balls to get the head around, coupled with with that osc 2 mod, but you can get some seriously meaty sounds out of this synth, you just need to invest a good bit of time and creativity in routing with it.

the quad contest tracks are a good example of what can be done

[childofsaturn]

Quad seems to me a half-baked synth. It's like they had an interesting concept and shoe-horned a lot of "tried and true" Rob Papen staple features into it without giving it much TLC. That's not to say you can't get some nice sounds out of it. It can be fun to play around with. However, I don't think it's worth the asking price. For a synth with such a quirky interface, tonally I believe it lacks personality.