Softube Modular Wants To Be Your Virtual Eurorack Synthesizer: competition for Reaktor Blocks?

Back on topic, interesting thing with this product on Softube's website:

"Some competing products offer a low quality mode to preserve CPU. We will not do that, as such a mode would neither live up to Softube's quality standards, nor to the quality standards of our partnering companies, such as Doepfer and Intellijel."

Does it imply that Reaktor Blocks is using low quality mode?

 

just typical marketing gibberish.

probably it means that this thing eats CPU and they aren't making apologies for it.

 

My preference for Reaktor and avoidance of Softube's Modular product is in large part a financial one. My hardware rack has 25 modular pieces in it at an average cost of nearly $300 a module...not something a lot of aspiring musicians are going to go out and buy. On the other hand in Reaktor I have over 400 Blocks and still I've only incurred the cost of Reaktor. If I were to buy Softube Modular with Modules having an average cost of just $20 each, I'm looking at spending $8000 on a comparable build - or the cost of a solid hardware Modular system. I can't say I understand the economic model.

 

No, but it can (ie you can run any Reaktor ensemble at lower or higher sample rates)

 

Been out of the loop... I don't know if it's bad behavior to respond to a thread 10 days old, but I'm feeling risky tonight

I don't see too much competition between softube mod and Reaktor. I can see some of the appeal of true-to-life modules that some may have dreamed of owning is now available in a virtual package. If anything is going to sell this, it's going to be the doepfer/intellijel branding associated with it. I do not mean that as an insult in anyway. If Softube were able to emulate these modules to a satisfactory level for these companies, then it's a good sign of the quality within.

I might buy it purely for fun and out of curiosity, but there's no way that this will ever come close to replacing Reaktor in my arsenal.

 

Or Doepfer in mine!!!

 

i own a Doepfer A-100 System - i bought it at least 15 years ago.

i have recently started to get back into Modular synthesis and have since bought stuff by other manufacturers such as Make Noise and Mutable Instruments.

that has made me re-evaluate my Deeper modules. They are okay but not as good or as interesting as Make Noise and Mutable Instruments.

what i have come to realise with Blocks is that the sound quality is amazing. we also have some fantastic builders releasing great stuff in the User Library.

back to Softube - i do own an Intelligel Dixie II and it is indeed very good, but i think that the Intellijel modules extra purchases and not part of the basic package?

i am tempted to download the demo though.

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