Zapped Frank!

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow BJ.
	Didn't recognize you in those new cloths.
 
At 02:55 PM 10/25/99 PDT, Bjarne Nillson wrote:
>"Hello people im boby brown ,the cutest boy in town".

"I knew you'd be surprised..."

>Hi diyers, long time no write.
>Im have tested the Realiyt software synt lately
>and i was impressed by the splendid performance,
>no latencies at all, Generator and Reaktor are by
>far worse in this respect.

Reality isn't too bad as far as latency goes. But it definitely depends on
your sound card. The 3DAT card I'm currently using it with seems to
introduce noticeable latency and we're not talking a slow machine here by
any stretch of the imagination. It runs on a separate machine to the
sequencer and runs exclusively on that machine when I run it. Nothing else
but reality.

I can get lots of complex voices out of it without lagging down the CPU and
in that respect it's pretty good too. It's short comings are that it is
entirely dependent on the SF2 (Sound font) format. Which means. It can't
portamento, It has no free running LFOs and a host of other things that put
it squarely in the "Toy" market. Although SF2 is an open format, it takes
Creati-Flabs to define what is and isn't legal within it. Since they have
never provided them with allocations for professional features, I guess
Seer couldn't opt in even if they wanted to. Without risking their product
becoming incompatible down the line.

The best thing about the whole synth is the "Hen-trix" joke.

Patch changes just don't work. I have tried all 3 patch change formats and
buggered if I can get them to work.

All in all I think Reality is a nice try but it needs work. Glad I got mine
from work and didn't have to buy it...

I feel however that none of these soft synths and samplers can wear the tag
"professional" no matter how small the latency or features. One word.
"Windows." and it makes them all a toy. Let's put it this way, would you go
out and perform live with them? Chances are you'd get windows to a gig and
find that after 3 months of reliable service, it wouldn't boot on the
night. Or you spend the entire performance worrying if the thing is going
to remain up-standing till the end of the gig.

I could trust 3.11 implicitly. I had years of relatively happy motoring
with that. BOSH95 won't even stay up-standing in the studio half the time.
Let alone in a live performance. And if you can't trust your OS, then it
doesn't matter how "pro" your soft synth claims to be, it's still a toy.
maybe worth 50 bux. Certainly not worth the 700 odd bux they want for it.
(Or what ever this particular soft synth costs)

If the synth does not have the benefit of hardware or at least solid coding
on a solid platform, it just isn't worth the price of admission.

Reaktor just bombs on me at the moment. It's because it doesn't like the
3DAT sound card. And I have to do something about that. Probably by
installing a video card strange as that may seem. (A video card which has
it's own sound card.. it's a long story.)

I've tried a lot of soft synths since working for the shop and personally I
still find that softsynths are no substitute for good solid hardware. But
"Reality" is probably the pick of the crop.

>And has any one tested the Dutch Hound analog synt?

That's a new one on me?

Be absolutely Icebox.

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