I cannot imagine why this plugin is not one of the most popular in the world. It achieves what Fairlight and Synclavier tried to do in their time: sampling and resynthesis. And it does it almost automatically! I am really going to enjoy it a lot. Thumbs up for the idea of using the loop in the envelopes to create modulation!
Seems like a similar approach than Synplant2. Both developers are Suedes, I wonder who came first with the concept or if there is any affiliation. Amazing tools! We live in great times!
..You have a RU-vid "Short" titled "POPULAR WAYS TO CREATE CUSTOM WAVETABLES"...What was the app you were using in that video?....was it iOS ?....Thanks
Hi, could someone help me with this? I've been testing Tomofon in demo-mode. When I try to play my own sample, for example a guitar pluck, there is still some synth or other sound playin at the same time. So I can't really hear the sample I dragged there. Is there an easy solution to this that I just don't see, or does demo-version make the effect? thank you!
Check in the tab where you can modify the wavetables. Check if there are parts in the wavetable that you can delete (like a silence before the beginning of the attack, or even crop a bit of the transient), check if there are dark areas in your wavetable that you could clean, and lastly check the envelope so you can select a more beautiful part of the wavetable for when the notes are sustained.
I just looked it up. I looks like Synclavier is closer to what Serum or Vital does: it converts the audio sample to oscillator waveforms. But every note you play on your keyboard would trigger the same waveform.
Kontakt is a sampler. It will play different samples depending on the note and the velocity you play. So it's similar in the sense that you can have a very expressive and natural sounding instrument. The differences are mainly that with samples, you're kind of limited by the length of your samples if you want to play long notes. But also, kontakt banks are huuuuuge, they often weigh dozens of GB. Tomofon is a synth, so it's all parameter based, and that uses a LOT LESS disk space.
You can consider that like an advance sampler, but it works differently. This doesn't play a sample. It decomposes a sample into several waveforms, and arrange them in several wavetables. It starts with a sample, but the way it works is closer to a synth
Very similar in theory, but designed to do very different things. For heavy synth like DNB and dubstep, serum is better. For instruments that sound natural, Tomofon is better. A real advantage serum has is a full effects suite you can modulate with the LFOs and envelopes
