Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2000 11:09 am
I'll generally give my impression of all of Zarg's synths here. At the moment Bowen's synths are the Cadillac/Mercedes Benz of the Creamware line. Although they're third party synths they might as well be direct from Creamware. I think they're even better than the Creamware synths. <br><br>The Zarg synths are uniformly excellent as far as general sound, presets and flexibility. Only if you are a whiz at the Modular 2 are you going to get a more generous selection of synthesis styles. And the graphics are gorgeous. If these colors and textures were on a hardware synth you'd want to caress it very gently for a long while. <br><br>It's probably a little soon in the lifecycle of software synthesis to be declaring "classic" status, but in future years these synths might be looked back on as fondly as the old hardware classics of the 70's and 80's.<br><br>I wish he had designed the STS sampler series. Instead of just pretty good and serviceable, the 3000/4000 samplers would have been astounding. Instead of being equivalent to an AKAI 2000, like some people have said, we would probably have gotten something equivalent to the AKAI 5000/6000 series.<br>
new 'baby blue' color. The Custom version is "inspired" by a customization request from Peter Anslinger. He wanted the extra filters and U Know oscillator from the Dark Star, so the Custom has all of the same features as v2.0 with the following added: 1) Parallel Lowpass (24 dB), Highpass (24 dB), Bandpass (12 dB), and Comb filters. Each has separate mod amounts for 4 sources - Envelope, LFO1, Aftertouch, and Osc 2, and individual levels. 2) A U KNOW (I spell it U No on the panel for space reasons) with a popup control surface for it. The Pulse Width Modulation is the same as for Osc 1. 