I see it your way. I had the extra cash and bought nepheton2 on sale. It’s not a dead on 808 but it’s still a damn good drum machine. I really like what I can do with the kick, it has really good punch.i'm a super avid fan of the 808 so i was hoping v2 would nail the sound, which it doesn't, but it's still one of my favourite drum synth plugins. Drumazon is great too. I think one thing about comparing these plugins to hardware is - most of the "genuine" sounds of 808s and 909s we've all heard a hundred times have been quite heavily processed. And the components of these hardware units were sometimes even faulty when they left the factory, also the fact they're now vintage hardware, so there must be a considerable amount of variation in the sound of 808 units world wide. Nepheton's hi-hats are a bit disappointing to me, missing the mojo of the hardware, but the hardware hat sound is built around faulty components so possibly very hard to replicate? The snare too, is not right, to my ears. Which you know - kick snare hat... like everything else could be kinda meh, but those three need to be spot on to be a convincing emulation, especially for the 808.
If anyone ever releases an algorithmic plugin that really nails the 808 sound it would be an instabuy from a lot of people.
just thinking too, it's possible that if D16 would have got a lot closer to hardware sound, the effect on the CPU might have been insanely unstable. ?
Was just looking for a compliment to the 909 and I think this does a good job at that. Drumazon2 is still the lead dog but I have no problem swapping in sounds from this machine. It’s very easy to process and shape.
I think you were mentioning Type B and that’s quite awesome on hats. Easily my go to now.
Statistics: Posted by stash98 — Sun Oct 20, 2024 5:27 am