Comments on: Creamware Klangboxes: Knobless virtual analog synthesizers

By: Sandonsand

Sandonsand — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:19:13 +0000

For those (like me!) who already have an ASB, or knobs and keyboard, etc… it sounds great to have (for the price of 1,5 VSTi…)a stable rack that gives you THE sound of very welknown synth. For the gigs it sounds really good. My B4000 ASB is perfect for hammond sound (i need the drawbars !); as for the the sound of Prophet, Minimoog or ARP Odyssey, if you have already a controling gear for your gigs, i would suggest to buy 2 Klangs instead of 1 sole ASB (hope the official. My ASB is a dream, but it is quite expensive. Just a big investment. But for stable gigs i do prefer to avoid too much computer (i don’t know if creamware software+soundcard are stable for gigs?).

By: Stuart Anderson

Stuart Anderson — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:14:15 +0000

Well, I have a horrible tower PC with 2 Pulsar cards which I have set up only to use the John Bowen plugins. I’d love to take my 2 cards and morph them into a simple rack with a PC, preferably Mac UI.

By: Damon

Damon — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:08:03 +0000

Well, on the flip side, the Creamware emulations are regarded by many as the best sounding available. I think these boxes are in the game if or until someone else creates soft synth emulations that sound better than the Creamware versions and costs less. But that leaves these boxes in a state of perpetual peril. Beware the looming technology of Gmedia.

Blessings,
Damon

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:58:16 +0000

I think the ‘either’ is a big loss. Imagine if this had a big switch on the front, with little pictures of a Minimoog, B3, 2600, P5…

By: RS

RS — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:56:16 +0000

I don’t know…looks great to me. Connect a midi knob bank to it and you’ve got knobs to spare. My question is whether there will finally be a way to use these under linux or OSX given that it’s USB.

By: Adrian Anders

Adrian Anders — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:50:05 +0000

Yea, they should have at least included a couple of knobs and an LCD on the front for editing if it isn’t going to have a VST plug-in bridge.

Like what emulsion said, the worst of both worlds.

By: eS

eS — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:49:28 +0000

Clavia Nord Modular G2 engine… anyone?
:-D

Ok, if only they gave the option to load whichever synth one wanted…maybe… :-/

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:09:57 +0000

External hardware controlled only by software? Hmm, that’s not really sexy.

By: emulsion

emulsion — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:26:14 +0000

This would really have to interface with my computer using a VST or AU to be appealing. To me a synth with no knobs but that is missing the convenience of softsynth plugins is sort of the worst of both worlds.