Sonic Charge Synplant 2

I don’t want to say too much until after it’s released but… it works exactly as advertised. Absolute sorcery.

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…aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh…finaleeeeeeeeeeeee…
the only sonic thing i am waiting for this year…

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“Going through final testing.”
Edit: It’s here: Sonic Charge - Synplant

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it‘s out

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Enjoy throwing your whole sample library into Genopatch everyone! :smiley:

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This is a brilliant sound design tool - it was always great anyway, but it’s made a quantum leap now with genopatch. I also love how low-key the UI is - it’s basically the same as it’s been for many years, but with a few minor graphical tweaks and the new genopatch page.

I can see Microtonic getting a major upgrade, perhaps with its own genopatch and maybe an extra oscillator - the sequencer could do with some extra love too, or perhaps they could scrap the sequencer all together given all the excellent midi generator plugins that exist, they could then free up some valuable UI space for more sound design functionality.

I love this developer so much! :heart:

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Oh man, imagine a crossover between this and the Koala Sampler on IOS. Sample something with the phone, make it into a synth patch, tweak.

The new IPhones should be powerful enough I guess.

I will try the demo as soon as I have the time.

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was waiting for this one for a while
absolutely insane. while i wasnt originally a huge synplant 1 user, this feature is just a dream, load up samples, see what kind of similar patches it generates, it comes up with stuff that is adjacent to the sample you loaded with some being strikingly similar and others being really interesting and sometimes freaky varations, and ofc cause its a synth these patches behave in cool ways when you play it across the keyboard - and then of course further tweakable with the DNA or the classic plant interface.
hell even the sounds it makes while generating patches is really fun and sampleable lol, while it scans through all the patches it comes up with

best vst synth that came out in a while for sure, a blast for people that want both easy sound design or a really tweakable flexible yet not too complex synth

im also super impressed how it makes all these sounds with a relatively simple 2 VA oscillators + FM architecture, crazy. further evidence that you dont really need the most out there feature packed synth in order to recreate almost any sound, just 2 oscillators, a whole lot of modulation and some reverb
but it also makes me wonder, what if something like massive x, serum had a feature like this, bet it could get even closer and make even crazier stuff. But I guess it’s also part of the charm that the recreated samples still somehow have the synplant sonic imprint

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Has it got song mode tho…?

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Coming in v2.1

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a glaring omission

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Along with the power handle?

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And untrigable, trigless, trigs

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This will take fart synthesis to next level.

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It definitely excels at the weirder end of the synthesis spectrum, however I also managed to clone my long sold Minibrute with a recording of it during the beta :+1: I think it even made the factory presets. :grin:

But one sequenced instance of this plus some modulation is basically a track. That’s your song mode right there :+1:

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This thing is like synthetic alchemical magic! So fun to fiddle with and discover new sounds!

Lot’s of fun fun fun:

methods gone astray|audio

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The sounds are cool also before it has nailed it.

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The most fun I’ve been having is feeding it stuff you know it’ll have a hard time with like for instance field recordings. Weird and wonderful textures for days :slight_smile:

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I’ve downloaded the demo - my goodness this is an impressive synth. I loaded drum samples from the Machinedrum, the Nord Drum 2 and a few samples drums from real kits. Synplant 2 managed to synthesise them all, to an impressive degree. Gonna try random one-shots shortly. :smiley:

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It’s amazing, right?!

I’ve been testing it for a couple of months and it’s both an amazing sound design tool and just a ton of fun to play with. I don’t tend to pick up synths nowadays unless they offer something genuinely different. Needless to say, this made the cut.

I’ve used it for percussion, pads, weird textures and even orchestral sounding stuff. It’s absolutely fantastic. I love chucking stuff into Genopatch, letting it do it’s thing, and then growing weird new sounds from that source and seeing where it goes.

I tend to think of sound design mainly as sculpting a sound, but this is more like curating a sound. It’s cool, can’t recommend it enough.

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