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Yesterday I downloaded the Wavelength devices that were made available. Most, if not all of them, are fantastic! I really feel guilty about getting the chance to use them without paying for them... they are that good.

None of these devices (like the Pro-One as well) have any stepping / zipper noise when using the filters, especially when controlling filter cutoff via midi.

Now why can't Creamware's own synths behave like this? Off the top of my head, Bluesynth is the worst about it... pure stepping. Lightwave is the best... only a little, but still there. And most of the others are somewhere in between.

Now if a small developer can make wonderful sounding synths with clean filters and non of these problems, why can't Creamware?

I would think they would want these synths to best demonstrate the platforms abilities as these are the 1st products a new user will encounter.

As a user that varies things like filter cutoff on the fly tremendously, it kills that some otherwise great synths (BlueSynth) go largely unused because of this.

Any comments?

- sinix

the old CW synths are pretty bad compared to the new stuff. I don't have any problems with the filters of Lightwave, Prisma, or Minimax (which I only demo-ed but the filter sounded great)

<b>DSP usage vs. Smooth Knobs</b>

BlueSynth came out when Pulsar1s with 4DSPs were $1200. People would have complained it took too much DSP.

Hummel also released "smoothed" versions of the BlueSynth amongst other "classic" Creawmare synths, if you still care about the old synths, just download the Hummel versions and be happy... I doubt Creamware would do a "new" version of their old synths since Hummel already did it for free.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: subhuman on 2002-08-13 15:35 ]</font>

BTW - Thanks wavelength!!

Thanks Sub,

I had no idea these devices had been revised, at all.

I wasn't really out right bitching, it was just a question more than anything else.

It just seems that apart from maybe the Minimax, which I haven't used, the Lightwave is the only Creamware product that has little zipper noise.

Most of the 3rd party devices I try and/or buy have don't have this problem.

- sinix