sounds like a very nice companion for the mpc auto sampler
Incredible. I have not had time to demo - yet. but has anyone put samples through it like acapella or is it really best for cloning synth sounds?
Real interested in seeing what he is going to do with microtonic.
Iāve put all kinds of stuff through it during the beta: acapellas, drums, synths, field recordingsā¦ It obviously wonāt exactly reproduce vocals but itāll try and thatās where the magic happens. Just try stuff! 
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Awesome. Thats what Iāll do then. Thanks
Iām kinda feeling the opposite, the genopatch system is super impressive but it would surely be able to approximate input samples more accurately if it used a more complex FM engine under the hood. Maybe the goal was for the patches to retain a āsynthyā quality?
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Surprised nobody has called for PLANTAKT or PLANTONE yet
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Okay. Now I am wondering what the record is for longest run of software before it is updated?
Yeah I get what you mean, after using it a bit more today and trying to make sounds without the AI, I found it a bit weird for example that u canāt assign the LFO or mod envelope to all the parameters, like the LFO only does volume+vibrato, and the mod envelope only affects the mix between the 2 osc, the FM parameter, or pitch modulation, which is a bit weird especially for a synth in 2023. of course u can use your DAWās modulation tools like the maxforlive LFO etcetc, but I also wonder if the AI could get even better results if it actually had internal freely assignable modulation.
Its just crazy to imagine what for example serum could come up with an engine like this, with all its different wavetable morphin options and effects and modulationā¦ one thing that genopatch struggles with probably because of the lack of modulation options within it is making sounds that are a bit longer/have a bit more complex/irregular rythmic content.
but thats also what impresses me, it still manages to imitate a whole range of sounds and come up with really impressive stuffā¦ i guess a lot of the development went into the genopatch feature early on, and then they couldnt really change the synth architecture too much anymore. I think Iāll just use it for that and dont think too much about using it like a regular softsynth
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I donāt find myself working āin the boxā a lot these days, but Iāve owned Synplant since 2012, and after checking out the demo videos this is definitely an instant buy for me. Very cool!
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Iām sure you will have seen the Cuckoo video on Synplant 2 a few months ago, as thatās how the developer synthesised the Vintage Tonic drum sounds (for Microtonic) that were released a year or so back - it got really close or exactly replicated the CR78, 808, 909 etc. I wondering how he did that back then. I suppose heās been working on genopatch for 4+ years already.
Talk about putting in the hours for development!
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It can do voices to an extent. Some better than others. Itās really weird how it achieves the sounds. Watch this vid if you havenāt seen it already: https://youtu.be/rN7B8LUY3WU?t=1245
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Yeah that video made me pay attention. I didnāt appreciate Synplant when it came out, felt too esoteric for me. But I regret that now as Iād love to grab the 2.0 upgrade for ā¬50!
Iāve ran hundreds of samples through Genopatch. Drums, bass, pads, keysā¦ even a sample of laughter. The results are incredible and often uncanny.
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Polarity likes it!
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Elektron needs to licence this technology to generate patches offline for the Digitone.
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I really like how Polarity is able to explain the concepts behind Synthplant / genopatch in a few short sentences - such clarity of thought.
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Yeah man, itās bonkers for kick starting a creative sound design journey!
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Donāt do software music stuff anymore but this looks and sounds utterly beautiful. Sad that art like this will probably be lost to time once compatibility and stuff goes.
For me, Iām more interested in simple use cases. Like re-synthesizing a woody percussion sample so I can create chromatic variations. I havenāt demoed it yet, but Iām wondering if I can then just apply those settings to other synths with similar topologies. Probably a good learning tool.
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You probably could, but the flexible reverb in Synplant does a lot of the heavy lifting which makes it quite unique.
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Is it doing some kind of convolution?
If so Venus Theory did a good tutorial on how that can be used to imprint one sound on anotherā¦
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