By NearTao
Tue May 24, 2022 5:44 pm
Straker wrote:Hype is not a Rompler style synth?
It does sound very good to me, it's the one I prefer of Mpc ones. If you disable all effects that overwhelm presets, it has some very nice sounds.
I would love some granular synth like GR1 or Reason's Grain where you can load your own sample or waveform.
Hype is Rompler style, but it's more on the synth side, as it uses wavetables and not straight up samples. Yeah it is in a similar space, but the approach is different. I think more what I was thinking of was like a classic Roland, Korg, or Yamaha Rompler... something where you could quickly cycle through different sample sets for classic pianos, orchestral sounds, strings, etc. For example, on my Triton Studio, I can record a piano sequence, and then if I want to try the sound as a different piano, or orchestral sound, or whatever, it's just the press of a button and I can very quickly preview completely different sounds. It is all baked into how it works, so I'm not bouncing around with changing plugins and all that.
To do something similar on the MPC, I've got to load all of those key groups into memory first, where as on the Triton, it is just a knob turn away. Is the Triton knocking sound design out of the park these days? Nope, but even fully loaded, with all of the samples for the entire sound set, it is less than 256mb of memory for all of the programs, and with the use of effects, you've got access to thousands of presets. It just makes it an overall quicker experience to audition sounds (for me at least), that's all.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of what we've got on the MPC, the Expansion ecosystem is fine, and the plugins are a great addition.