operator arrives

Emissary · Post by **Emissary** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:40 pm

As long as its feckin good and low on Cpu usage (as if) then I'll have a gander. I do like the sounds of FM, they make me go all weird inside

dave dominey · Post by **dave dominey** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:41 pm

bar humbug to operator... unless its just the single most amazing soft synth ever created

too effin expensive

randyh · Post by **randyh** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:42 pm

What a bunch of whiney grouches. What did you expect them to do? Solve cold fusion? geez.

I think if they can make an FM synth other than FM7 that *doesn't* hog the CPU and is easier to program, they've got a hit. It's also half the cost of FM7 and I'll be shocked if it isn't easier to program and yet just as flexible, at least inside of live.

-randy

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:43 pm

DAmn!!

I'm really keen to try it and would really like to get it, but I've spent far too much on things like Komplete to justify another $150

that's gonna be annoying knowing it's there but out of reach....

randyh · Post by **randyh** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:44 pm

elemental wrote:agreed.

I would have preferred a better sampler to rival kontakt than this.

Unless of course it sounds amazing. But I'm getting more and more bored of soft synths. Always end up going back to samples or my hardware.

Is there a demo yet?

Maybe operator will allow you to load you own samples...

I think the demo is in the 4.1 update.

ekko · Post by **ekko** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:47 pm

randyh wrote: I think if they can make an FM synth other than FM7 that *doesn't* hog the CPU (FM7 is the only one that doesn't) and is easier to program, they've got a hit. It's also half the cost of FM7 and I'll be shocked if it isn't easier to program and yet just as flexible, at least inside of live.

-randy

I have no doubts that it will totally kick ass inside of live, but for $150, man, that's just a lot, esp considering:

- $130 is budgeted for the impeding Reason 3.0 upgrade

- $130 was just spent on the Live 4.0 upgrade a few months ago

- $130 was just spent updating to Absynth 3.0

It just seems kinda pricey at the moment, and at the moment the market is flooded with tons of upgrades and synths at this price point.

Emissary · Post by **Emissary** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:48 pm

Somehow i dont think this will work outside of live (hopefully) . Which means it will be designed with one sole purpose , which could make it more cpu efficient. I think this thread is going to get RATHER big in the next few hours heheh. But I like the sound of it

but will have to hear it to really know whats going down.

filarion · Post by **filarion** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:50 pm

I'm also expecting this to be a lot more than it sounds in the pressrelease. the architecture sounds pretty modular to me and if it's intuitive an fm synth is a crazy box of wonders for all kinds of electronic music. now, I'm also hoping for some new midi fx since they have their own midi synth as well.

jamief · Post by **jamief** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:50 pm

i think we have jumped the gun with this thread.
there is no mention of it anywhere on the ableton site

kabuki · Post by **kabuki** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:50 pm

ekko wrote:

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breathe

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HA

heh

Kas. · Post by **Kas.** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:52 pm

Well, I have a lot of confidence in mr. Henke after his excelent work on the effects. With little touches like being able to invert the noise gate or freeze the reverb I think those a re a lot more exciting then most other effects. No doubt Operator will ahve touches like that too. At 150 it can prove itself before I spend any money though. I´ll wait for the demo before judging.

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:52 pm

2 hours and 30 minutes to go till the press conference and already all the info is out. I guess we'll hit a new "users online" record today.

dave dominey · Post by **dave dominey** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:53 pm

maybe i wont be so peeved if they say that a midi arpeggiator and pdc and all the other little "wants" are included in 4.1

..... maybe

spiderprod · Post by **spiderprod** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:53 pm

if it dosen't pump too much cpu & sounds good , why not .
i have never been disapointed with live products so i don't think they would have allowed themself the mistake of releasing some crap stuff for that money .
where to get it?

randyh · Post by **randyh** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:00 pm

dave dominey wrote:maybe i wont be so peeved if they say that a midi arpeggiator and pdc and all the other little "wants" are included in 4.1

..... maybe

http://www.sonicbytes.com/products.htm

Since you wanted an arp, this might be of interest. ERA is REALLY good, and only $50. It recently got a full blown arp mode. The flexiblity of it is amazing.

PDC: yeah, that would be nice.