#999

I think they all sound great but they can get very harsh very quickly. I like to pass them through the filters of other synths to tame some of the harshness and a little reverb never hurt either.

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#1000

yeah no audio in is a bummer but it does sample playing magnificently. i also have a morphagene and some other granular devices but this still sees heavy use

#1001

This looks nice for those who don’t have a tone of synths to use as controllers. New Wavestate with full sized 61 keyboard and aftertouch.

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#1002

Damn, I thought this was for a standalone pitch/mod wheel device.

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#1003

Sounds like it’s going to be channel aftertouch and not poly aftertouch, though. Seems like it would be way more expressive with poly, but maybe the Wavestate engine just isn’t designed for that.

#1004

Yeah, not sure, seems like going out of the way to release the product without making those kind of changes is strange. I guess even just having a full sized keyboard is going to go a long way to getting people invested in it. I really need to get a poly/at keyboard again, but I’m also just thinking thinking about getting something with MPE now that the Sequential modules I own have it.

I think I’d probably be more excited about a module version at this point.

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#1005

I’m baffled why poly aftertouch still isn’t the norm in 2021, but it sure isn’t. There really should be no barriers at the software end, even if it may increase the processing requirements. That cost should be pretty marginal. I conjecture hardware complexity/cost is still a factor at some level. Hydrasynth delivers poly aftertouch at a defensible price, although only on a four octave keyboard. It’s pretty hard to even identify what poly aftertouch options are in the market.

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#1006

more teasing https://www.instagram.com/p/CKXEs7wDb_k/ with the promise of more info next week :slight_smile:

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#1007

The makenoise hype strategy is actually getting annoying. Announce the thing or don’t, I don’t care about pictures of the same chunk of a face plate over and over. The sound samples are nice intriguing though.

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#1008

This. Announce the thing and give me timeline for actual launch, preferably “available immediately”. This teasing is annoying.

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#1009

Though (of course) you do have a point, you are in the Pre Release Hype Megathread! If you dont like it dont watch it.

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#1010

I was actually surprised (guess I shouldn’t be) at the “find out next week!” part of the teasing, because I was sure it would be announced over the past week. Instead now it’s just going to hang around and probably some of that interest will dissipate and grow stale. Presumably companies do this stuff because they’ve found it to be effective, but personally speaking I respond most positively when something new and cool is announced with no prior warning whatsoever and is also available for sale immediately. If done right it feels like a monolith just dropped out of the sky that you’re extra interested in learning more about, and the conversations it garners have a certain energy to them, whereas they just wouldn’t have the same concentrated quality over a long drawn out tease/hype campaign.

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#1011

yeah, this hype train is one of these modern marketing things that people despise but eventually will make ever so slightly more money for the company so thats why they are using it. I’m looking at you teenage engineering, elektron etc. There is very little creativity left to these pre-hype campaigns as they tend to be made by visual designers who have too many things in their todo list and eventually have no clue about the needs of the musos - notice how with all the blurry and weird angled snapshots we have just one piece of audio that could be made with almost any monosynth and some guitar pedals. I’m sure this says nothing about the final product and I’m more then happy to giving a fair try when it’s out but please spare my social media feed of these macro photos of piece of painted pcb plate with some text and graphics on it. This is not how to speak with your audience.

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#1012

Making better products (which make noise have traditionally done quite well imo) seems to be the the most reliable “marketing” approach.

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#1013

I hear you but I think you’re overlooking the possibility that this might actually be a bit of harmless fun for some folks…

I rather enjoy it… The current Make Noise version anyway…

I acknowledge that it can be annoying as well, but I don’t have or follow every brand out there…

Not trying to be argumentative…

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#1014

I find it kind of annoying, slightly intriguing but altogether mostly harmless. These people aren’t hiring Mad Men style ad agencies to promote their shit, just using the tools available to have some fun. It’s fun fodder for forums.

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#1015

a bit off and posted with a light heart.

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#1016

For the 0-Ctrl rollout, MN did some IG teases, and had a YouTube introduction the following week. Orders opened either the same day as the video or the next day. Orders shipped about 2 weeks later. That seemed reasonable to me–and better than announcing products 6 months, a year, or even more, in advance. If the 0-Cortini is available for order next week, I’d be thrilled. Agree it’s fun to read the wild speculation based on tidbits of information.

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#1017

if they name it the 0-cortini… I will b so happy lmao

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#1018

I listened to Tony Rolando on Podular Modcast and apparently they had 0-CTRL ready design wise for a long time before announcement, but covid messed up with manufacturing (with contractors etc.) and assembly so launch got pushed back several times. Maybe that also accounted for quick rollout, or maybe they are just trying something different now.

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