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Originally Posted by TEMAS

Am I the only one that thinks these Synth patches are really uninspiring?

Yes, I think so. :-)

This is the first and only reaction I've received like this regarding the Synth patches. Every other reaction has been extremely enthusiastic and positive.

Originally Posted by TEMAS

When I flick through the Omnisphere presets, I hold down on one key and often I am presented with an imaginative multilayered soundscape.

Ah, so are most interested in complex event sounds?

Have you checked out what you can do with the Custom Controls page and the Arp & Rhythm patches? There's a ton of intricate and subtle changes that can be made to the sounds in real-time very easily and lots of interesting variations are possible with each sound.

When I flick through the Trillian synth presets I don't hear any intricacy or subtlety or experimentation; when I hold one key down nothing ever pops up and surprises me. ALL the presets are designed to be played on a keyboard like one would play a piano; each key plays its own note and thats all. And the results that are achievable using Trillian's synth basslines are restricted by this design.

That's completely inaccurate. What you are saying does not make sense.

Are you listening to the new set of 500 synth patches?

Have you checked out the ARP & Rhythm category of patches and used the custom controls page?

They don't fit into your description at all. There are hundreds of highly imaginitive sounds that play complex patterns and all kinds of cool and unique stuff....not just single note stuff.

I've been programming my own bass patches using a Nord Modular (and a G2) for about 12 years, so I know a few things about synths. With the Nords, you get a huge choice of modulation sources at your disposal to create sounds and performances.

The envelopes in Trilian are the most powerful, state of the art envelopes in any kind of bass instrument. Have you checked out the Envelope Zoom and Modulation Matrix?

By sampling these sounds and performances, I've built tons of EXS24 patches and they are never designed to be played in a regular 12 semi-tone scale; they're just a bunch of crazy samples and mini performances, which can then be triggered with a MIDI or USB controller. I guess with Trillian I was hoping for at least a bit more of this technique; sounds that evolve or alternate according to how they are triggered, not just each note the same as the last but one semitone higher.

Well yes, Trilian sounds all use a regular 12 semi-tone scale. :-)

To summarize - I was not hoping for Trillian to offer the vast editing scope of a Nord G2; quite the opposite in fact. I was hoping that the samples that make up the presets had captured more exploration of and performances using the source instruments, so that I didn't have to do all the editing to make the presets unique.

Sounds like your interests are quite different than the majority of our users, but you should definitely check out the Custom Controls with the ARP & Rhythm patches...very much what you are describing and tons of fun to explore new sounds.:-)