Acustica Audio TH8

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  1. FrankWhite23

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    What you guys think the cpu usage will be?
     
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  3. Xupito

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    "THING is powered by a revolutionary technology known as Modular Unified Synthesis Technology (MUST)."
    :crazy: :deep_facepalm: :suicide:
     
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  4. Niels

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    Although I'm a fan of Acustica Audio, this thing is way overpriced.
     
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    yeah, if the sale price was the msrp, and we got the discount on top of that, the pricing would make more sense
     
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  6. FrankWhite23

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    Especially considering you'll only be able to run one instance.. it does sound good though ..
     
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    Honestly i didn't think i'd ever see an Acustica Audio synth, but it works the trick i think. Question is, is anybody really asking for more Jupiter-8 emulations these days?

    It's going to be €79 if you're patient enough, which is still a bit pricey, but more or less in the ballpark of other analogue synth plugins.
     
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    This thumbnail is exactly my laugh here as well.
     
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  9. shinyzen

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    well. it sounds really good. really good. better than i expected. with my loyalty offer it puts it in the price range of the competition.
    I recommend everyone to demo and see for yourself.
     
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    I never understand why people pick the 8 over the much better sounding 6 except hype
     
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    So this guy is using a $4000 top of the line Roland to play an unlicensed third party copy of another Roland that is likely powered by impulse responses? That makes sense.
     
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    I know what many of us are thinking.:guru:
     
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  13. shinyzen

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    CPU usage is ok. Its not session stopping, but it is somewhat heavy. To be expected from an acustica synth i guess. 5-15% per instance. Definitely a get your sound and freeze the damn thing type synth.
     
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    We have the Jupiter 8 from ROLAND for fuck sake. It works WITHOUT jamming up an entire machine for one plugin. How the hell could an acustica version of the JP8 ever be relevant, or better than the Roland VST?
     
  15. shinyzen

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    its much better, and doesnt really jam the CPU up. A little CPU heavy sure, but its not session stopping. Ive got 10 up and running right now with additional processing, plug a few other random synths, some drums, kontakt etc, and im still only at 50%

    the Roland plugin is nothing special, sounds nothing like analog, and sounds like every other VST emulation. it sounds the exact same as every Arturia synth. They all have this digital coldness to them. I use many of them, but find i have to tweak and dirty things up to make em sound like my actual analog synths.

    Ive only spent a couple hours with Acustica's, but i could hear a pretty big difference immediately. It sounds analog. I mean, they use their sampling tech through out the plugin, so in a sense its "analog". Im not sure if the synth engine itself is sampled, but the filters, saturation, chorus, delay, verb etc are all sampled i believe, and i think some aspects of the actual synth as well. Give it a go, pull it up next to the Roland or any other analog poly synth VST, and judge for yourself. The closest synth i can think of is some from GForce. Their stuff is top notch.
     
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    OK. That's fair.

    However, I'll wait when R2R does their thing to it. Not creating any accounts and not installing any junkware just to try any of that stuff.
     
  17. shinyzen

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    for sure. Their installer app has been updated recently, and is way less buggy. The install size of this is also smaller than usual. 700mb i think. Also, i dont think R2R is doing any more Acustica stuff. Hopefully im wrong, for everyones sake, but they seemed to have stopped about halfway through the catalog, unfortunately leaving out some of the best of the bunch.
     
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    This may be a fair observation, but the first thing anyone considering buying a hardware synth will often do during testing is to bypass any effects possible and then listening to the synth. Either at the patch or global level, as possible. Digital effects sections have been used to "hide" the raw sound of synths since the late 80s. It's no different today with most of our plugins, like the above quote from your post suggests.

    You could just as easily run the Roland plugin in to your "make it sound analog" effects processing chain and apply whatever IR's you want. All of your own choosing and tweaking. You are "paying" for that processing in CPU resources either way.
     
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  19. shinyzen

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    Yah definitely, i agree, but still think this thing is killer. I do already use XYZ synth and treat it with either great algo plugins, or some acustica stuff, or actual analog, and this one sounds great right from the bat. Even with the FX section turned off, it still has that "realness" to it. The onboard fx are also sampled, and the filter is sampled directly from the synth. Filters are a big part of a synths sound, so at least they got that down lol. I didnt look into the synth enough, but have since, and i guess they really sampled the hell out of this thing. every voice, each oscillators pitch drift, cross modulation etc etc etc. Im not sure there is a full comprehensive list of what they actually sampled, and what is algorthmic, but i will try to find out and report back.
     
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    So what happens with the demo after one month? Can you reset it somehow?

    I just don’t have 180$ right now to invest into another synth that only does emulation of one synth.
     
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    I've been an Acustica user since Nebula 2, but was never a fan of their business model, and the ever growing bloat in their catalogue, and questionable programming choices, but this synth sounds very good... and I'm not particular about emulations being perfect, but the difference in sonic texture is very noticeable, the filter sounds great.
     
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