I have this one and all the others from Brainworx, the Oberheim, or the Thorn, and the Knifonium gives me a signature sound. And other brands, like Korg that provide me the ARP synths. I have a D70 and a Jupiter8 hardware too. In the past I had a lot more, but had to sell them because we moved to a smaller place. Do you know my first "DAW" was a Cubase 1.2? On a Atari computer. With all the midi boxes and cables. What a hassle. Lol.
In Germany, there is a tradition in electronic music on the highest level, since Tangerine Dream etc etc etc and we talk about art a lot, but let me mention, for the sake of the pop music business, I believe that the plugin is very suitable to do k-pop as in BLACKPINK ! In Europe, I miss that so much. I don't like these genres that are all over cable and sat TV. Nothing sounds fresh to me, but k-pop and j-pop do. So I would recommend some producers to just give it a go, use those sounds, and check out how well Knifonium can contribute to that.
Can't say I agree with plugins being quicker than analog synths because of all the knob turning you have to do. Turning a handful of hardware adsr knobs is relatively straight forward and fast. - Finding a preset that roughly matches what you want is usually much slower since preset browsing and loading can be real slow on many vsts. - Using the mouse to select and turn knobs is slower since you can only change one at a time and finding the right position can be tricky, particularly if the panel is too small. - Unpicking the various settings to figure out why a VST presets sounds as it does can take a while since often they buried behind hard to find options panels. Took me a while to figure out how to change the polyphony option in Knifonium Shame there was no real discussion of the sound itself and not sure what the point of this video was really. Get a famous musician who's got a Knifonium to talk about merits of using plugins?
neovxr yeah actually I’ve had a play with the demo and it sounds pretty good. It’s definitely got a bit of a character. The filter is a bit limited but seems to have some interesting modulation, there is the saturation and a handy fx suite. I may get it at the discount with voucher. Given it’s not a well known synth I think a run through video building some patches and pointing out it’s unique capabilities with someone who’s intimately familiar with it would have been much more useful. Separately, I’d also love to see a company really try to solve the hardware control of vst synths properly, preferably with close to knob per function endless encoders/sliders and sensible grouping rather than paging and visual feedback.
i agree, as well latency is always a problem. the sound today does not come close to be fair, but for surgical EQ plug ins are the best hahahaha ( consider space and hardware maintenance too, which is always a trouble with great sounding old synths) IMO it depends on what you can afford
@@nandoblondemobydick5438 yeah, these days I tend to use hardware synths (for the hands on immediacy) and software for processing/fx chains. Software synths can sound really good but i don't usually enjoy working with them as much and sometimes there is seems to be something missing sonically. I'd love a really good hands-on FX system but most are really limited and I'm not sure I want to get into lots of guitar pedals. I have a couple of eurorack FX I need to play with more. I'd love a hardware version of something like BYOME. Not sure what kind of interface would work though, maybe touch screen.
Great! So Hannes is telling us that this plugin sounds so bad that he has to record the hardware for his productions. Wow. What a very unlucky introduction.
@@tylereat What…? Are you serious…? Sorry but your post is misleading! He is of course talking about the Knifonium… And what sense makes a pluginemulation if it is not emulating what it is intended to…? Explaination please.
love this synth, fits my sound
We're glad to hear that. Thanks for sharing!
This synth is the Nutz. The plug-in is fantastic and will be used in my future productions :)
What monitoring software is that in green and black? @4:22
Anyone know what that reference tool he has on screen at 4:06 or so is? ty
I will check. I think he mentioned it in a some masterclass video
Nice, I have the plug in and am dying to use it! Hey HOW do you set it up with a guitar input?
I have this one and all the others from Brainworx, the Oberheim, or the Thorn, and the Knifonium gives me a signature sound. And other brands, like Korg that provide me the ARP synths. I have a D70 and a Jupiter8 hardware too. In the past I had a lot more, but had to sell them because we moved to a smaller place. Do you know my first "DAW" was a Cubase 1.2? On a Atari computer. With all the midi boxes and cables. What a hassle. Lol.
In Germany, there is a tradition in electronic music on the highest level, since Tangerine Dream etc etc etc and we talk about art a lot,
but let me mention, for the sake of the pop music business,
I believe that the plugin is very suitable to do k-pop as in BLACKPINK !
In Europe, I miss that so much. I don't like these genres that are all over cable and sat TV. Nothing sounds fresh to me, but k-pop and j-pop do.
So I would recommend some producers to just give it a go, use those sounds, and check out how well Knifonium can contribute to that.
If I knew there were no presets I never would have bought it.
Can the “k” please be silent. Thanks.
Nope. It's authentic pronunciation for the designer's name, his company, and the synth.
Finnish?
@@chaddonal4331 I’m just getting started.
@@zerocrossing LOL. I think "Knif" the developer is Finnish.
@@chaddonal4331 I had hoped they’d keep going.
Can't say I agree with plugins being quicker than analog synths because of all the knob turning you have to do. Turning a handful of hardware adsr knobs is relatively straight forward and fast.
- Finding a preset that roughly matches what you want is usually much slower since preset browsing and loading can be real slow on many vsts.
- Using the mouse to select and turn knobs is slower since you can only change one at a time and finding the right position can be tricky, particularly if the panel is too small.
- Unpicking the various settings to figure out why a VST presets sounds as it does can take a while since often they buried behind hard to find options panels. Took me a while to figure out how to change the polyphony option in Knifonium
Shame there was no real discussion of the sound itself and not sure what the point of this video was really. Get a famous musician who's got a Knifonium to talk about merits of using plugins?
demo sounds on the PA Knif page are quite nice!
neovxr yeah actually I’ve had a play with the demo and it sounds pretty good. It’s definitely got a bit of a character. The filter is a bit limited but seems to have some interesting modulation, there is the saturation and a handy fx suite. I may get it at the discount with voucher. Given it’s not a well known synth I think a run through video building some patches and pointing out it’s unique capabilities with someone who’s intimately familiar with it would have been much more useful. Separately, I’d also love to see a company really try to solve the hardware control of vst synths properly, preferably with close to knob per function endless encoders/sliders and sensible grouping rather than paging and visual feedback.
i agree, as well latency is always a problem. the sound today does not come close to be fair, but for surgical EQ plug ins are the best hahahaha ( consider space and hardware maintenance too, which is always a trouble with great sounding old synths) IMO it depends on what you can afford
@@nandoblondemobydick5438 yeah, these days I tend to use hardware synths (for the hands on immediacy) and software for processing/fx chains. Software synths can sound really good but i don't usually enjoy working with them as much and sometimes there is seems to be something missing sonically. I'd love a really good hands-on FX system but most are really limited and I'm not sure I want to get into lots of guitar pedals. I have a couple of eurorack FX I need to play with more. I'd love a hardware version of something like BYOME. Not sure what kind of interface would work though, maybe touch screen.
@@atom9249 ZOIA is quite close to what BYOME is and on some aspects even more (i.e. you can also patch synths with it and such).
Great! So Hannes is telling us that this plugin sounds so bad that he has to record the hardware for his productions. Wow. What a very unlucky introduction.
He was talking about the TB-303 in that case, but I’m sure if you have an 18k synth you would always use it over a plugin
@@tylereat What…? Are you serious…? Sorry but your post is misleading! He is of course talking about the Knifonium… And what sense makes a pluginemulation if it is not emulating what it is intended to…? Explaination please.
@@photicsonar I was talking about 10:46. I didn't hear him say what you said but please time-stamp if I am mistaken!