fmq75 wrote:I‘m a bit surprised (if not disappointed) that this 150 bucks instruemtn really has not THAT many presets compared to i.e.the (free!) hype synth.I‘m currently working my way through all Hype presets (first time ever) and THREE evenings in,i‘m still far from finish.And i‘m quite impressed to be honest,no idea why so many people stomp on the quality of the plugins (the Odyssey is shit though,i have one and its not even worth to mention both in one sentence).The OPx4 has so much potential (what i heard/tried myself doesn‘t even scratch the surface i guess) but i don‘t see myself doing a lot of sounddesign with it.Not much fun to me jumping between 20-30 edit pages on that small screen.
First, in regards to the HYPE synth, I always felt that it was a bit of a Gimmick. (1500 presets yet no 128 General MIDI??????) Also, MANY of the presets are just duplicates with slightly different names (some of them were even duplicated in Fabric, which is downright terrible) for example "Analog Pad" "Warm Analog Pad" "Soft Rich Pad" and "Warm Pad" are all presets with similar names, sounding pretty similar, at least give me some ethnic instruments or woodwinds for variation!
I think that the point of OPx-4 is to create your own presets, which is why there aren't as many of them. I agree that I wish there were more presets, tho.
"no idea why so many people stomp on the quality of the plugins" Well, I did a comprehensive A/B test of most of the sounds in Fabric compared to my MC-101, and most of them weren't even close (I tried everything from Pianos and EPs to Brass, guitars and mallets, and the MC-101 sounded better most of the time, which is not really that good considering that the plugs cost $499 for the bundle and the MC-101 is currently only $50 more at $550, I actually only paid $500 for mine since I got it 2 years ago before the price went up). For me, the advantage of the plugins is the ability to automate parameters and use them in Standalone mode. I wasn't expecting Komplete or Omnisphere sound quality from these plugins, but I think a lot of people were and that's why they're upset (which to me is a bit unfair seeing as how there is no Standalone version of Omnisphere and Komplete doesn't run on Maschine Plus in standalone mode).
Back to OP-x4, I agree about the menu diving and the potential (There's a Clarinet preset in there that sounds incredible!), but its honestly no worse than using the Reface DX that I just got. When I have time, I'm going to do a comprehensive deep dive comparison of the OP-x4 to the Reface DX. They both have 4 operators and a mod matrix so I think it will be interesting.