dante wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 1:15 am
What I would like to know is if MiniMax is better than the UAD minimoog. Given UA have done theirs in Native we can be pretty much assured that for the foreseeable future that our Scope Classic synths will be the only Classic soft synth incarnations done in DSP so would be kinda good to know they cane the native ones :
https://youtu.be/sLx_x5Fuzp4
Nice docu, thx for sharing.
Well, meanwhile we see some very good native VIs,- no question.
But I prefer ´em running on DSPs because I don´t have to think about latency that much.
Most users ignore "latency", being compared to a given distance of the ear to the speakers,- comes in addition to that real world ear/speaker distance.
So, when my distance to speakers already makes 3ms,- a 256 samples ASIO buffer of native system makes additional 6ms,- while the roundtip latency is even higher.
That doesn´t matter much for DAW work, but for playing an instrument, it makes a big difference.
When I go w/ a MIDI controller keyboard into the MIDI-In of XITE-1 and run Minimax,- the latency is negligible and it plays like a hardware instrument.
That´s the most important fact for me,- and there´s nobody out there (and will never be !) who can tell what the closest e Minimoog emulation is because every Minimoog D sounded slightly different,- like electromagnetic Hammond organs did and do.
Now I owned 3 Minimoog D and actualy own 1.
Do I think about if this is the best Minimoog out there or not ?
No,- I don´t.
The feel of the real deal is what makes the experience,- not only the sound.
And when you play a VI by using any MIDI controller keyboard,- it´s NEVER the same experience or result, just only because it´s never the whole package.
That also rules for many other instruments.
You´ll get the sound from emulations,- more or less close and sometimes very close,- but you´ll always play different on the MIDI controller keyboard vs. the real instrument.
You adapt to imperfections of the real and continuously ageing instrument,- the old keyboard mechanism, pitchwheel w/ signficantly different behaviour and inaccurate range, connect CV pedals w/ wide travel and audio taper pots (instead of linear ones typically used in expression pedals)) and so on.
You play and grab a pot to re-ajust sound while playing,- do that w/ a mouse.
And when you programmed a MIDI controller to make changes,- it doesn´t look like the front panel of the Mini or any other real synth.
And yes, I really hate preparing MIDI controllers to do so,- it´s wasted time for me.
So, when playing Minimax, I use the preset memory, select a patch and play.
With the real deal, I turn knobs, use pedals and bring it to life that way BECAUSE it doesn´t offer preset memory.
But the advantage of Minimax is not only the very low latency when running SCOPE standalone,- in addition you can make it polyphonic, it has FX built in,- and I already mentioned above,- it has presets like the Minimoog Voyager p.ex..
I don´t think the Minimoog Voyager sounds better than Minimax does.
Bud