Reply To: CubicAudio Ascension is £1

[peter]

@jorge I won’t be able to get to it until later tonight — if at all today. If you have a chance to spend some time with it, I’d love to get your thoughts. Plus, you’re a lot more skilled with soft synths than me, so I’m sure you’ll have some insights that would be far beyond what I could discern.

I own a bunch of soft synths, but I don’t make my own presets, I am a lowly preset player, as I once confided to Ben Gillet (Camel Audio) when we met up in Edinburgh many years ago. Ben was explaining to me how the prospective buyers of soft synths commonly say that they want a synth they can program, but the overwhelming majority end up only using presets. The difference with me is that I know up front that I’m not going to venture into making my own patches. I would rather just attempt to make music and leave the making or presets to people with those skills. I’m happy to have an idea in my head and search for a preset that comes close to it. I suppose that’s where AI could really be of use in this space. If we’re working on a tune and have a strong idea of a sound we want, we could write a good prompt and audition patches that are a result of that. Although, I’m guessing from your professional background, you might prefer to simply make things yourself.

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