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Title: This thing is flipping awesome!
Post by: Tausendberg on May 28, 2016, 06:06:04 am
That's all I have to say right now, I'm just amazed by Synclavier V and the history of the original Synclavier.

Cheers for making this beast. I heard that the original Synclavier cost 150,000 dollars and now we're so privileged that we get to have what reviews are saying is a great reproduction for a few hundred.
Title: Re: This thing is flipping awesome!
Post by: LBH on May 28, 2016, 06:12:18 pm
Told you   ;D

Synclavier give new sounds to VC.
Title: Re: This thing is flipping awesome!
Post by: Tausendberg on May 28, 2016, 10:57:08 pm
For sure, it definitely seems like a very different way of making sound than something like the Modular V.
Title: Re: This thing is flipping awesome!
Post by: Kevin R on May 30, 2016, 01:47:59 am
All by itself it's worth the price of the whole new V Collection. Version 5 is making me fall in love with these Arturia soft synths all over again.
Title: Re: This thing is flipping awesome!
Post by: MatthewJohn on June 06, 2016, 10:52:24 pm
The Synclavier V really sounds good (didn't see the whole V Collection -- would have done that).   I use mostly analog synths, and this complements them very well.  It's really beautiful - I haven't been so excited about a software synth before.
Title: Re: This thing is flipping awesome!
Post by: George Ware on June 08, 2016, 10:38:12 pm
I love this synth!
Title: Re: This thing is flipping awesome!
Post by: TonyFlyingSquirrel on June 08, 2016, 10:50:57 pm
I'm barely scratching the surface, but I love what I've found so far.
Title: Re: This thing is flipping awesome!
Post by: Karamba on June 09, 2016, 09:05:16 pm
yep, I'm in luuuvv too!
I feel bad, I was faithful to the Arp 2600 and Modular but now this new beauty shows up and I'm going to have to cheat on them old girlfriends :)
Title: Re: This thing is flipping awesome!
Post by: TonyFlyingSquirrel on June 09, 2016, 09:34:46 pm
I'm not ready to ditch the Arp 2600 or the Mini yet, but I'm digging the Synclavier so far!

They're all unique tools in the V-Collection tool box.

They each have their application for specific songs/parts.
Title: Re: This thing is flipping awesome!
Post by: Era on December 30, 2016, 04:28:15 pm
That's all I have to say right now, I'm just amazed by Synclavier V and the history of the original Synclavier.

Cheers for making this beast. I heard that the original Synclavier cost 150,000 dollars and now we're so privileged that we get to have what reviews are saying is a great reproduction for a few hundred.

TOTALLY AGREE!! Frekkin' awesome :)
Title: Re: This thing is flipping awesome!
Post by: JanPB on April 21, 2017, 01:39:44 am
The Synclavier V really sounds good (didn't see the whole V Collection -- would have done that).   I use mostly analog synths, and this complements them very well.  It's really beautiful - I haven't been so excited about a software synth before.

Just to credit where the credit is due: the Arturia Synclavier is NOT a "soft synth", i.e. it's not a "software model" of something existing "physically" before. The Arturia Synclavier IS the Synclavier - the original instrument. The Arturia version is a faithful digital clone of the equally digital original, down to preserving certain imperfections to maintain the integrity of the original presets.

For example, you may have noticed that the amplitude envelopes do not always reflect the sound perfectly along the time axis. This happens if you click and drag an envelope peak - it will likely go very slightly out of sync with respect to the other envelopes, even if your drag motion was straight up. From what I hear this was present in the original (it's not a bug) due to hardware constraints at the time.