2/29/2024 0 Comments Syntronik downloading![]() There are 5 main pages that make up the majority of what the software does the browser, the effects, the layer controls, arpeggiator and the synth ‘face’ itself. This ease is thankfully not at the expense of the sounds that can be generated, or to the depth that you can go into making them and IK should be applauded for making the program very intuitive. The upside to the rather drawn out process of downloading and installing the software is how easy it is to use. As this is such a large collection (and because of the way that IK lets you buy the synths individually, more of which later) you have to install 23 separate files if you want to use the full package from the off, which again took about an hour. Using IK’s authorization manager is simple (type in your serial number and download the files) and installation of the main application took no time at all. It took around two-and-a-half hours on my fairly modest broadband, so you’ll have to be patient, but if you can’t then there is a boxed USB drive version available at an extra cost. With that in mind, you need to be prepared for a bit of a wait to download the complete collection. In all, the collection is based on a whopping 37 different synths and includes over 2000 presets. For example, the Minimod gathers elements from the Modular Moog, Minimoog Model D and the Moog Voyager. The second thing to be aware of is that, although the collection is 17 instruments, some of these are sampled from a number of different models from the same family of synths. Sampling every possible oscillator, filter and control set for such a large number of synths would break anyone and so this collection is built on a hybrid of samples and modelling synthesis. In fact, it’s as big as some of the professional symphonic instrument libraries at around 50GB, due to the fact that the software is based on samples, and lots of them. However, give it a closer look and you’ll see something (actually, quite a lot) that might set this collection apart from the crowd. If you give it a cursory glance Syntronik, IK Multimedia’s latest offering, is a collection of 17 classic vintage synths, most of which have been cloned, sampled, synthesized and been available before from various manufacturers. In recent years however, said manufacturers have come closer to achieving the ultimate goal of fooling everyone with the latest soft Neve channel or esoteric synth being brought to the seemingly stuffed market and so, we ask ourselves, why would we want more of the same. ![]() Since the advent of the fully-fledged DAW, software manufacturers have strived to produce the ultimate plugins, with realistic versions of analogue hardware possibly being the hardest to recreate with any authenticity.
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