Softube modular

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Softube modular

Ok, Im a sucker for virtual modulars, but I’ll admit, often they tend to sound a bit digital… but this is different, this really has fantastic sound quality.

not as flexible as Reaktor Blocks, but the quality of the modules is better… not surprising as you pay for them 🙂

I really hope other manufactures can be tempted to jump on board, and given they will (presumably) be paid, it seems like it could happen, its not a ‘competition’ to their hardware business.

anyway, I used it via VpC, and even basic patches sound brilliant.

tips for how to do this, as no official MPE support yet.

– create a rig, with one voice

– take midi note and pitchbend, to cv mixer, put 4x multiple on pitchbend input, which will give you 48 semis rather than 12.

– use mod wheel (CC1) rather than CC74.

– then duplicate this track for N voices, and change input to individual channels 1-N.

perhaps not as neat as having it all in one rack BUT actually I found it made it easer to edit the voices, as you just reload the saved preset, or in ableton just duplicate the tracks again…oh and separate tracks = separate threads for performance 🙂

demo is available, you need an iLok account (free) , but its soft iLok, so you don’t need a dongle on anything. 20 days with no limits, as far as i could tell… but be-warned its addictive 🙂

p.s. if you need more virtual modular, checkout pulsarmodular.com and Pulsar 900 (mac only) , nice sound moog modular.

http://www.softube.com/index.php?id=modular//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

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  2. I’ve been waiting for this to come out ever since it didn’t on the 11th. Glad it’s using soft iLok, otherwise I wouldn’t even consider it. Thanks for mentioning.

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  3. Geert Bevin Id be all over the Model 15 like a rash, if it was on macOS :o)

    Perhaps if you can’t convince Moog to do this, moog could consider licensing to Softube… win-win 🙂

    whats promising, is like Moog, it would appear other hardware manufactures are ‘recognising’, that a software version will not compete with their hardware.

    … Ive read some are ‘considering’ if for eurorack, this may be a way to ‘demo’ the hardware before buying it.

    not quite as dumb as it first seems, as the softube modules can be demo’d for 20 days for free.

    Softube even has a ‘cheeky’ buy hardware button on the intellijel and doepher modules – lol 🙂

    as for ‘modular’ the UI is very useable, though not as slick as some (especially Geert Bevin apps :)), it particular it really could do with a cut n paste function like reaktor.

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  5. yeah this is interesting… seems to be similar to what Reaktor Blocks 1.2 is now doing.

    what I don’t get in the above video, is they imply that it will work with soundcards not supporting DC couple inputs, but I thought that was not possible…. but in fairness Ive not played with this Duncan Foster  will know about this…

    if I go the eurorack route, I’m going to wait to see the price of the ES8, which will mean you dont need to use your existing audio interface, just usb (as the ES8 essentially acts as an audio interface with 16 ch out and 12 in!).. perfect for me, as I don’t have enough outputs anyway on my AI.

    EDIT: btw, softube modular also has DC outputs for HW modular too. its all the ‘rage’

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  6. If you watch the video, CV4Live is adding the oscillator signal to the CV so it’s no longer a DC signal on the way in. Which is essentially what Expert Sleepers does.

    I’d be interested in doing an A/B demo of the Softtube modules (given I have a hardware Rubicon OSC). I think they were at Superbooth but I didn’t manage to get to talk to them.

    I agree that the ES8 is looking very interesting. I have an ES-3 and find it and the SW VSTs really useful.

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  7. Duncan Foster I get that you could convert a DC signal into an AC signal on the computer. But if the modular needs a DC signal, surely you need something on the other end to then convert it back to DC.

    e.g. say your sending a CV for a gate, this is 0-5V DC (no?) , so whilst you could convert this to an AC signal to be transmitted from your computer to the modular, to feed it into a gate inlet, you need to first convert it back to DC.

    if you have a module, like ES, then this could do this conversion, but CV4Live said you don’t need this.

    but the dev did repeat the same comment on MW, which is why I’m interested… its clear my understanding is flawed 🙂

    an amusing aside, Ive been playing with trying to use the same technique to send virtual CV between reaktor and softube in the same way. the idea being to get audio rate at high resolution between the apps. (rather than control rate with midi)… obviously at the expense of ‘virtual audio channels’ and the load this implies. perhaps a dumb idea, but fun to play with.

    (so far calibration works, but not DC CV, again another reason to be interested in the above, perhaps related)

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  8. Again applying a small modulation to the DC signal on the way back out? An AC modulated DC signal will work fine in the modular provided that the soundcard doesn’t filter out the DC completely, which I guess depends on the frequency of the changes in the DC signal? Would a sufficiently slowly changing DC have problems? Dunno, and don’t have a suitable output to test. Perhaps ask on MW?

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