> The team uses software to prototype their instruments before implementing hardware designs. I disagree, the success story has details that reveal lots on what's going on. It also works much better as a VST than as hardware because there's more polyphony, it's easier to edit, and it doesn't take up any space. It's in a nice spot where there's some interesting added complexity on top of a recognisable wavetable engine. I don't think it's gratuitous or over engineered at all. The wonderfully bonkers gravity-well based KAOSS modulation makes the sounds organic and unpredictable, far away from any traditional ADSR/LFO combination. I bought ModWave Native yesterday and it's the most fun I've had with a synth for a long time. It seems like Roland are all about the money now, and they don't even like their customers all that much. And Roland Cloud Manager is an absolute clusterfuck of a product. The Jupiters and Junos are musical in a way that other synths never quite matched.īut the Roland Cloud and Zencore versions are close, but. Especially the Juno 60 which is one of the sweetest sounding synths ever made. I never owned any classics and don’t revere that “Roland sound”, but at the end of the day they sound good, so they’re good - and more importantly they’re enough.Īll the innovation happening in sound synthesis seems like over engineering and developing things for the sake of novelty.Īn innovative instrument is one that's trying to sound like 2022 and not 1982. Subtractive will never get old and Roland classics like the Juno, Jupiter or SH-101 just sound good.
In HW we see more of the same or subtractives. Popular VSTs nowadays are mixing several types of engines (Pigments) or expanding the set of oscillator waves (Serum). And subtractive’s pretty much done, manufacturers are just tinkering with filters, modulation and effects at this point. What’s an innovative instrument and does that matter when making music? There’s quite a fetishization of gear happening nowadays, making and buying gear for gear’s sake.īy now one can see that subtractive is king, because it’s easy to understand, sounds great and one can hear it everywhere.
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