The Colorful Variety of Saw Wave Soundset by Sonic Sirius for the Sonicbits - Silk VSTi

Genres: Saw Theme - New Wave - Electro - Sci-Fi - Modern Synth Music
71 Presets: 5x FX - 3x KY - 5x LD - 13x PD - 6x PL - 33x SQ - 6x VO
For: Sonicbits - Silk v1.1.0 VSTi or newer
Release Date: 11.11.2024
Format: Presets (*.FXP)
File Size: 85,9 KB
Price: Free

License
This free soundest is royalty free but may not be resold for a profit.

Sonic Sirius - Synthesizer Soundsets
Freeware Soundsets for Software and Hardware Synthesizer
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Free Download
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Nice set there, but I have to again ask, WHY do you shift the pitch of the sound all over the place on most patches?
I understand that many patches are not pitch-specific, and there is good reason to shift SOME.
But when I browse the patches with a bassline playing and your patches are OUT OF TUNE it sounds terrible.
When doing pitch spreads, do you listen to the resulting core pitch and adjust?

As someone with typical pitch sensitivity it seems obvious that something is amiss here, as I do not experience this issue with any other presets I have used.
Does my issue make sense to you?
Is there some reason to shift so many from the default pitch?

 

Dear @DoubleTake, you are the first and only user I know who has a "pitch sensitivity". If I remember correctly, you have asked this question before with other soundsets. This is kang shaping and all the controls and functions of the Silk VSTi were used to create new sounds or presets, that's what software synthesizers are for.


Sonicbits - Silk Short Review (English)

The Silk sounds good and is available for little money 19 $ EUR. The user interface (GUI) is exemplary and clearly designed. All parameters and controls are very easy to use and easy to see. The Silk is also scalable for modern 4K monitors 80%, 90%, 100%, 110%, 125%, 150%, 175%, 200%. The sharpness and color selection are very well done. A great GUI to my taste.

The manual can even be accessed via the interface in the system button, for beginners it is a well thought out virtual software synthesizer with 3 oscillators (2x saw and 1x noise), spread and blend function plus detune - 99 & + 99, range -24 & +24. There are 7 filter types to choose from, even a 6 LP filter and formant filter with A E I O U has been thought of. The modulation envelope and the modulation matrix invite you to create new sounds.

With the 2 LFO low frequency oscillators you can create floating sounds and also rhythmic sound images. The 2 LFOs have sine, saw, square, triangle and S&H waveforms. The rate for the LFO is equipped with SYNC and FREE, which can be edited with the RATE function 0.01 Hz to 40.00 Hz and the DEPTH function 1 to 100. The 3 effects chorus, delay and reverb sound good and give the sound more space and fullness.
There is a pitch wheel and a mod wheel function for your MIDI keyboard.

 

Most people have the kind of pitch sensitivity I am talking about, which is why i called it "typical".
My pitch sensitivity has to do with playing an A on the keyboard and hearing a C instead of an "A".
Some may have such sensitivity that the slightest difference in Hz offends their ears, but that might be considered a dysfunction, and that is not what i am talking about.
This is also not about detuning within one half-step usually for detuning and fattening-type results, but shifting the pitch by one-half to several steps, so that as i mentioned, one might play a "C" on the keyboard and the result is a G.
In the past I went through a couple of your preset packs and re-pitched many or them, leaving fine tuning alone, but just returning some pitch adjustments to "0". Of course some are, for the most part, atonal, or have an effect that is lost by zeroing out one or more oscillators, so again those I left alone.
But the ones that make me hurl my eggs & sausage onto the console...

Creativity is great, but there are conventions and standards most people follow.
However different standards may vary across cultures and genres, MOST people expect to hear something that, if it has a discernible pitch, aligns with the scale notes of that particular culture or genre.

I guess your patch bundles are just not "my thing".
Certainly a good patch is worth tweaking, but my be overlooked if it is so out of pitch-step.

 

Hello @DoubleTake, thanks for your detailed comment. Try creating your own presets with Silk.

 

Thanks for this soundset, I like it!
If you're the author, drop me a line at [email protected]
English or German is fine.

 

Hi @Sonicbits, yes I am the author and sent you an email.

 

Is there a demo of these presets on youtube or something?

 

No, unfortunately there is no demo, you have to download it and play it yourself.

 

It's a fast download & good stuff in there, as usual.