Minimonsta demo is OUT!!!

[kenn.michael]

http://www.gmediamusic.com/GForce/mi...inimonsta.html

and it's AWESOME!!!!!! Truly a masterpiece.

[BrianBrian]

Agreed, I have been playing with this for a while now and it is fantastic. GMedia Music really deliver quality stuff. Oddity and impOSCar are awesome too.

[ct43]

minmonsta is great, but it kills my computer in poly mode... im running a P4 3ghz with 1 gig of ram as well...

[ct43]

im getting hooked on this demo!!

Has anyone thats downloaded the demo got a Access Virus?? How does the Minimonsta compare sound quality wise... IMO this is the best souding VSTi so far.. just wondered how it stood up to probably the best hardware VA???

[Yutaka]

I tried it last night myself. I thought it was about as good as my Yamaha AN1x which was released in '97. I was impressed with imposcar (and probably buy it), but this one didn't excite me so much. YMMV.

[Mind-Over-Midi]

Originally posted by Yutaka
YMMV.

I'd say so! The Minimonsta is a real MONSTA! Love it! Must have it!

[ct43]

Originally posted by Mind-Over-Midi
I'd say so! The Minimonsta is a real MONSTA! Love it! Must have it!

is it running ok your end?? what system have you got???

[BrianBrian]

Minimonsta is almost twice as efficient on Athalon XPs compared to P4s. This is according to one of the Ohm Force people. It definately takes less juice on my XP than my P4, especially with polyphony and lots of modulation options turned on.

[radiospace]

I messed around with it for 20 minutes or so. It didn't grab me the way Arturia's Minimoog V did when I demoed it several months ago. Maybe it was just the mood I was in or something but the Minimonsta wasn't sounding as phat as I recall the Arturia version being.

I hope I can reinstall the Arturia demo and compare them head to head. If anyone else can do that I'd be interested in hearing your impressions.

[morpheus]

Synth sound is excellent, but it uses a LOT of CPU power. Are they planning a TDM version of it?

I haven't tried the Arturia. Is that worth checking out?

[BrianBrian]

To me the Minimonsta sounds much better than the Arturia Mini. Especially with extreme settings, it seems more faithful to the original Minimoog. Minimonsta also has excellent modulation capabilities and the morphing technology is amazing and unique. It is a lot of fun to play live. I still think Creamware's Minimax is the best Mini emulation, but the Minimonsta is 99% of the way there.

[Mind-Over-Midi]

Originally posted by ct43
is it running ok your end?? what system have you got???

Dual 2.5 G5, it's running fine on my system once I get past it cumming up as AU fx.

[ct43]

Originally posted by Mind-Over-Midi
Dual 2.5 G5, it's running fine on my system once I get past it cumming up as AU fx.

so can you play a few chrods one after another & it doesnt max out??? I can play mono lines (about 50% if CPU) but with unison on / paying chords it just cant handle it

my CPU is P4 3.06 with 1 gig of RAM...

some people are saying it runs better on AMD chips as well...

[radiospace]

I spent some more time with it last night. (Kudos to the developers for releasing a demo that you can actually try out for 18-20 hours before it starts producing white noise, by the way.)

On a Mac dual 2.5 using polyphonic pads it was gobbling CPU like Deadheads hitting blotter before the show. It never completely ran out but was getting up above 90% (which I've never seen on this machine).

I'm still not sure how I feel about it versus Arturia but I did like the sound of it better when I got into the "Original Minimoog" presets, which had a rawer, phatter sound than some of the other stuff.

Oh, and that pad that was using 90% of my CPUs sounded glorious. I don't know how you'd ever use it in the context of a song, however, with that kind of performance hit.

[ct43]

yeah thats the problem really, it sounds great (and I want to buy it!!) but its not very practical... at the moment I would have to buy another PC (just dedicated to the minimosta) to use it!!

The only work around for me at the moment is to make a mixdown of the track im working on at the time... start a new song in SX.. import the stereo wav.. play along to the mixdown.. make the sounds you want to make, then mixdown the minimonsta to an audio file, open back up the original song, import the minimonsta audio file.. and carry on like that.. not exactly ideal!!! Doable though, and im trying to convinse myself that its worth the effort, cos I like it so much..

I dunno, maybe they might optimise the code further in an update... all in all I would rarther it be this way than Ohmforce 'dumb down' the sound of the synth just to make it perform better... or maybe a compromise would be to have a switch to bring the quality down when you need the CPU....

[thomashenry]

It is beautiful, but so is Minimax. The beauty of a creamware card with minimax of course, is the zero CPU hit

My c/w card is looking like a better purchase all the time. I'm looking forward to jumping up to a 14 DSP version and adding Transient Designer...

[Mind-Over-Midi]

Originally posted by ct43
so can you play a few chrods one after another & it doesnt max out??? I can play mono lines (about 50% if CPU) but with unison on / paying chords it just cant handle it

my CPU is P4 3.06 with 1 gig of RAM...

some people are saying it runs better on AMD chips as well...

Hi;

I finally had some time to try out the poly patches and while it does hit the processor hard I haven't found any of the patches unusable. I was able to play five and six note chords in a sequence thats using 11 audio-instruments (nothing frozen) from Logic 7 and Native instruments and several plug-ins as well. I find on my machine (w/2.5 gig of ram installed) the Minimonsta to be quite usable especially with the freeze function. I'm buying it!


Later,

Bill.

[ct43]

hmmm, maybe its a RAM issue then??? I thought synths like this used the CPU more than the RAM, but I dont really know much about how computers work....

[Mind-Over-Midi]

Originally posted by ct43
.....but I dont really know much about how computers work....

Hay I feel ya! Me neither, I'm just a musician and a recording engineer. Affordable audio made me a computer guy and I'm still learning every day. I don't really know if more RAM helps or not but it can't hurt.

[Renie]

it's still not ready!!

[Ivory Force]

http://www.gforcesoftware.com/

Cheers

[headz]

Originally Posted by sonicprojects

Dear Oberheim fan!

The sonicprojects team announces the remake of the Oberheim OB-X. There's a feature never seen before in any other virtual device: slight individual detune of filters, oscillators and envelopes for every voice individually - like the real device

a real ob-x rev.2 itself was used for endless comparisons and tunes to copy the original behaviour - the result is extraordinary

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sorry but what a lame advertising ist that here?!
has nothing to do with minimonsta at all - learn quickly to behave well here brother !!!
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