Members Bernard Posted March 3, 2011 Members Share Posted March 3, 2011 THE REVIEW YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR.....http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2011/02/28/sonic-lab-m-audio-venom/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bernard Posted March 3, 2011 Members Share Posted March 3, 2011 Nick suggests one OSC model is the ''HP, Hewlett Packard 200CD - 1952 test oscilator''The Stockhausen One - Frequency Modulation Synthesizer (Hewlett-Packard) by Chris Aquilo may have met it's match if true ..... LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bernard Posted March 3, 2011 Members Share Posted March 3, 2011 Nick also says: ''The marketing speak has been all about the edgy, aggressive sound - as a rule, you should ingore that kind of rhetoric. But in all fairness, they pretty much nailed it. Raw oscillator waves have plenty of sonic depth, I hesitate to use the word, but in this case I think fat is called for. A savage OSC sync and Ring Mod feature gives more bite.Waves are taken from a variety sources:MG - Moog Model D, RP- Arp 2600 Greyface, AL - Alesis Fusion, JX - Roland JX8-P, SH - Roland SH-5, MS - Korg MS-20, OB - Oberheim SEM, PB - Plan B Model 15, TB - TB 303, HP, Hewlett Packard 200CD - 1952 test oscilator, DP - X wave Doepfer A-137, Bit Wave - Harvestman Zorlon Cannon.There are also a few multi-sampled kits - the TR909, 808 and DR55, plus an FM kit. These sound pretty good and form the basis of many of the groove patterns. Non Step FilterThe multimode filter is a real treat - although there is only one, clearly this only child has had a very happy upbringing with lots of love lavished on it by the designer Taiho Yamada (Alesis Fusion, Andromeda). Firstly the resolution is 8-bit - correction 10-bit, that means 1024 steps which translates to a very smooth sweep - no noticable stepping. When combined with say a MG Saw wave (Moog Model D) the results are about as analog as I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bernard Posted March 3, 2011 Members Share Posted March 3, 2011 Glad to see he corrected the bit about bits.... LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alison87 Posted March 4, 2011 Members Share Posted March 4, 2011 What a bummer there's not even a data wheel to do menu programming from the front panel. Sounds really good otherwise, heaps better than the Ultranova and Gaia to my ears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Boxed Posted March 5, 2011 Members Share Posted March 5, 2011 He says it sounds very good on the review. But doesn't play any amazing sounds. He played better sounds during his Access Virus TI review. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members foodeaters Posted March 9, 2011 Members Share Posted March 9, 2011 http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2011/03/07/sonic-lab-m-audio-venom-sounds/ Demo of presets here. The distorted sounds are dated and you can't always judge a synth by it's presets, but just as an overview of the possibilities it's not bad at all. I still can't abide by the software, but I expect this to sell well enough and I hope to get a version 2 or XL version with a better UI. Also, man, the sounds in sample pack advertisement that runs first are bad. Clicked play without looking and :puke: Just going by my assumptions of how this will appeal to their target market, I think Novation(slightly less) and Roland are in big trouble, which is too bad because more options is always good. On the other hand it could drive prices down, but I think the margins might become unappealing. And, hey I could be wrong, but is the Venom the only one that does FM?:shock: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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