It nails this futuristic "cyberpunkish" broken toys in a broken world sounds. It's not a piano, it's a synthetic distant memory of a piano from days gone by.
And exactly this is why i love this synth. If i want the general sound of a sample i already have, but i am missing the weird twist to better fit in techno, i can simply use genopatch to add weirdness or create abstract distopic versions. Some sounds are recreated perfectly but i think its more interesting to use stuff where genopatch is able to recreate only 50% and make the other 50% weird with glitches. Also the combination of a normal realistic sound which is getting the delayed answer of its dystopian twin out of the dark together in the same track is very interesting.
I tend to bounce the sound out, and then use it in either Falcon, alchemy, Kontakt Ashlight or Omnisphere. You be amazed what you hear when you pitch things down either in granular/ spectral/additive.
Went down a black hole feeding various sounds from vintage sample CD rips into this thing, along with using RipX to separate stems in songs I like, then feeding some of those sounds in. I must have made 200 patches in a week. Hell, you can provide it with a sound and get 10 things back which are semi-related and totally useable. Endless patch creation. Real time saver, was an insta-buy for me. I'm new to Synplant but I'm not keen on its preset management, maybe I need to dive in more.
Seems great for cinema, dark ambient, industrial, techno, a lot of stuff actually. Looks fairly quick and easy to use, and can get very unique patches too. Like you said, things you would never make.
Your videos are so amazing, commenting for the algo. I fall in and out of digital music and, your channel is such a wonderful home to return to to find some inspiration
One of my favourite things to do woth Synplant 1 is automate the rotation of the branches to create evolving melody lines or pads. Super keen to upgrade to 2 and play with the new features!
That is sooo great presentation of this mighty instrument ! Thank you. The best thing is that when you create sound from some reference sound, then it is loaded into interface and you can still manipulate it ! That is the beast that no other instrument on the market has. For creative person that looking to use some "standard" great sounding sound but still want to modify them a little bit, Synthplant is a heaven - root stays the same but sound variation changes. Pure gold !
I can imagine this being amazing for longform DJ mixes, if you're mixing in key - Like you could take the synth lead 'sound' from the outgoing record, and play that lead sound as the melody of the incoming record - so a sort of instant mini remix that sounds like the 'sound' of one record but the 'tune' of the other, bridging the transistion of the two without having to strip things right back. So many possibilities it's quite mind boggling... :)
I remember playing with this when I was younger on my dad's computer. I never knew the name and he forgot what it was as well; thanks for showcasing this synth and filling in a memory gap!
I am a Software Developer and search for lotta AI stuff online. I am so happy that the youtube algorithm sent me here. Totally incredible application of AI! Truly fascinating
This synth is so cool! As for the accuracy of the "Genopatch" AI matching the samples, this quote from their site might be helpful: "As the strands in the user interface sprout and grow, they generate patches that increasingly match the chosen audio." I noticed that you usually stopped it at about 30-40% completion, but the sounds at the end of the branches will be more accurate. Basically, Synplant listens, tries something, then listens and adjusts, and it each attempt is a little better in some way. I admit I was a little triggered when you cut it short and then complained about the result. It's like telling a kid to wash their hands, then stopping them as they're turning on the water, then yelling at them for not using soap lol. I'd love to see the 100% evolved options for these same samples. Perhaps you could make a follow up video? But still a helpful demo, and some very cool sounds! I'm downloading Synplant 2 while writing this and can't wait to fire it up!
I wouldn't have imagined the spawn of cthulhu being a musical uhh... instrument... as part of our future tools for music but here we are. As soon as I heard about this I knew you'd have a video on it.
I loved every part of this demo except when you said it couldn't handle distorted basses. Personally I got some really interesting results when feeding this thing different growls and glitches. I definitely encourage others to try it as well!
cool and good synth. ive been throwing a bunch of really common sounds (chop, jack u and pryda snares, spinz and zay 808, the bubble riser and jersey whip crack, etc) into it n im having a blast
This video surprises me, from the live stream, I thought you were not fond of it. The synth looks really interesting to me, but I am just not wanting a computer synth right now.
It looks like a washing machine front Edit: it sounds mad, and if i used DAW I'd be in on this for sure - it seems you can make almost any sound (I've wanted to recreate (and more))!
@@RedMeansRecording Yes, it would be a killer FM AI beast. I am astonished each time it renders a sample how far it gets although the basic engine is barebone, having only 2 OP and 2 LFO. That's incredible.
This has got to be the absolutely coolest thing I've ever seen music production wise and it's a brilliant application of AI. I my brain can't even comprehend the madness of possibilities this creates and enables us. Those 149$ are a freaking joke if you ask me. Wouldn't have second guessed it if there was a 0 at the end of it
...wait. wait just a minute. Is this... Reproducing input synth sounds by using a genetic algorithm to converge on a sound that matches the input??? And then allowing you to tweak the genes yourself afterwards? This might be literally one of the coolest ideas I've seen. It's so simple but it's clearly so effective. God damn. Side note, the reason it struggles with that sort of really distorted bassy stuff is that it's probably hard to converge on that sort of thing using simple generic iteration over the small set of wave parameters.
I'm so happy to see someone who likes sounds the way I do😊. Thr problem for me is that I can't play any instruments or now chords so I don't know what to do with my interest... Buy this program and make wierd sounds that I can't do anything with? 😅 Lover your videos!
18:49, stick a phat bass behind those basses and they'll slap like crazy. a lot of the new jungle and dub dnb use those broken tone, malfunction industrial style noises so I can see a use for them 100%
Very impressive :) - so each key (C, D, D#, E etc) have a different "plant" effect, right? - but how do you avoid those differences in the final sound? How do you make the instrument stay the same for each key and just pitch up/down like a normal synth?
dont quite understand the broader discussion around this, about like lack of flexibilty or power. i find this very very interesting, we have infinte serums to buy but this designing with chaos and letting urself be surprised. also the modelling sounds fun!
Literally me to Sonic Charge: SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY. Seriously, though... I am getting this just for its ability to create patches for any sample uploaded to it (I want to put this thing through its paces with a long list that I have of 80's and 90's synth sounds)... the rest of the plug-in's capabilities are "icing on the cake" as far as I'm concerned. I have played around with Synplant a bit, and I want to mention that when trying to accurately emulate a specific synth sound, it's important to provide the Synplant engine with as pristine a sample as possible - this means you will likely have to use an online AI tool that can separate out the instruments in an audio file into separate, isolated stems. After separating out the stems, trim down the audio file of your sound to about 1 second, and then run this trimmed-down file through the Synplant plugin . I have had pretty amazing results following these steps.
Great video, I could see Elektron being inspired to create their next box based on this video, a mix of Digitakt sample capabilities, Digitone FM and A4 synth engine along with a new A.I. engine. I wonder what they would call it?😂
Oh, cool. It's like 80s resynthesis except, you don't have to understand how to do additive synthesis with sine waves to make it work. And presumably it has many, many more partials available to itself.
Hello ! Anybody know if it's possible to input synt chord, and analyse a "one note" sound so you Can play other type of chords with it ? Or maybe a way to Split an audio sample of a chord into separates note ans then use synplant... Thanks !
I love these exploratory videos - so cool! It would be amazing if there was some way to have a more portable hardware version of this, like a standalone device.
@@iamjamessmith Ha nice. For me, it's more about how much time it takes to start making music. I can just turn my Digitone on and start making music without menu diving to start/set everything up
No, Jeremy. Just no. I have ENOUGH STUFF, dammit. Hear that clunking sound? That's the sound of me putting my foot down. Clunk. Clunk clunk. BOTH FEET. Though I'll probably get the Cat VST. And yes, it is cool. And I'd like it. But Cat VST FIRST.
