Thor for iPad

Andrew Tarpinian andrewtarpinian at gmail.com
Fri Jun 28 22:32:27 CEST 2013 

On Jun 28, 2013, at 4:16 PM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't played with Thor in a while.  That's actually why I upgraded
> to 4, but gave up because working with reason in general then wasn't
> pleasant.
> 
> The new mixer makes a huge difference in the sound.  I can't even put
> my finger on it, but  there is something just more pleasant about it
> end to end.

It's the emulation I'm guessing, more ear pleasing harmonics, etc… When I saw people a bit ago talking about the default reason sound as being better than other daws, I was a big confused as it used to be the opposite. These young kids will never know the pains of past digital audio.

> But jesus...I feel like I need to turn my widscreen monitor sideways
> to use it.  Reason really needs, like..3 monitors to work with now.

The opposite of minimal, clean swedish design. Can't fault them really, over time they just broke down to adding everything people wanted I guess. Better than being ableton and not letting you separate the damn mixer window, I have succumbed to taking the mix into logic from now on.


> 
> Tony
> 
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Andrew Tarpinian
> <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thor has wavetable osc's
>> 
>> On Jun 28, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> seriously, though, Reason has really grown up!  It's far beyond what
>>> it used to be.  And it really *does* sound better.  The latency is non
>>> existent, so you can really play it like a sound module.   Rewiring
>>> with Live seems to work much better than it has in the past for me
>>> (always had problems).  I think it is actually going to displace my
>>> Roland Fantom as a quick go-to sound source for non synthetic patches.
>>> I like that the NN-19 sampler can be treated more or less like a
>>> Rompler where you can edit patches but you don't have to do so at the
>>> keygroup level.
>>> 
>>> I wonder if they have a Waldorf style wavetable synth in the extensions store...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> hmm...one issue is still there for me.  You can only send MIDI clock
>>>> to one MIDI output.  That's ridiculous.
>>>> 
>>>> Seriously, why?  Why would you only want to send clock to one place?
>>>> In the days when only drum machines needed sync that made sense.
>>>> Those days are two decades ago..
>>>> 
>>>> Tony
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Andrew Tarpinian
>>>> <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> It's not necessary, but I think it will help, as the interface is huge now,
>>>>> and the SSL mixer is very, very, very, tall. Everything is able to separate,
>>>>> sequencer etc… Yea it's got external audio recording. Right now I am looking
>>>>> at it as a sound source(s) to then route through live or logic via rewire,
>>>>> like a modular software enviorment rack. The fact that you can build huge
>>>>> complex layered sounds with very little processing power is awesome. I am
>>>>> very tied to Live so it's hard for me to go just reason as there are things
>>>>> that I miss, my drum setups and push. But another way is bouncing audio back
>>>>> and forth between live and reason, like how you might use an external
>>>>> sampler.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I got a few extensions, the PX7 DX clone is nice, MonoPoly (never was really
>>>>> in love with this software version one over the years but I feel like I just
>>>>> need to find the sweet spot,) FET compressed which is real nice, I use it
>>>>> parallel on drums. There are also cv routers and such but I have not looked
>>>>> to much at those yet. There is so much in the basic package the extensions
>>>>> are really just sweeteners.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 28, 2013, at 11:41 AM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've only got one monitor on that system, but might shift a second 24 inch
>>>>> display for the purpose.  I didn't know you could put the mixer on a
>>>>> separate screen.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I still haven't gotten to load it up.  Can you mix external audio through
>>>>> it?  I'm wondering what the latency figures are.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 28, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Andrew Tarpinian <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Top tips!  Separate and put the big SSL mixer on a second screen
>>>>> immediately, and combinator is your friend.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 28, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I picked up the reason upgrade last night. We'll see how this goes…
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 28, 2013, at 7:40 AM, Bill Fox via iPad <billyfox at soundscapes.us>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Magellan, Animoog, Sunrizer, iMini, iSequence, Cassini, Alchemy, iPolysix,
>>>>> DXi, Sample Tank, iMS-20, WaveGenerator, Addictive Synth, Samplr, Bebot,
>>>>> Bowls HD, Thumbjam, Grain Science. These are my "go to" synth apps.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Bill
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 10:32 AM, "Romain / rXg" <xtechcode at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Would be cool if Figure and  Thor would work together synch ...
>>>>> 
>>>>> Otherwise do you guys knows Magellan which is very good synth  imo...
>>>>> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/magellan/id544119998?mt=8
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Andrew Tarpinian
>>>>> <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Seriously I think this just killed animoog as the best synth for iPad.
>>>>>> Plus you can take your patches back to reason, which so far this is the only
>>>>>> app I have used where I actually really want to do that. Time to upgrade my
>>>>>> reason 4(or3?)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Also Waldorf Nave is sounding good too.
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