Sonic Charge

Sonic Charge goes ahead into the next Level Plant. I got just some aha-Effects playing around with the new Velocity and Layering Mode in the first Minute, what a great Idea to use Mididata more. The fluid Rotation Animation looks great..also cool if you wait a bit the DNA starts turning slowly...we got better visual Feedback at all. Playing with DNA makes me feel like Dr. CRISPR and Genopatch is my best AI Friend, together we can do freaking Vegetables.

Oh, i got it, Genopatch synthesize the Sample, thats. awesome, so i understand know the magic dust behind this idea. Also very nice i can save every generated Synthesis as a Patch just like so and can rendering this Patch as a Sample as well. The Sample Size is kinda short, but i think its okay. Oha, mouse over Preview is kinda Vital Stuff very nice. Damn...its just 5/5.

Cons or Wishes:

• Some more filter types would nice. i mean this one is pretty flexible.
• The nice looking handwritten Registration Name need a slightly better position.
• knobs on the main screen feels stuttering, could be smoother.
• i wish we got 1 or 2 parameter modulators in the DNA (there i not much free space).
• some host sync gimmicks -- forget its all ready done *whohoo*).

cheers.

The AI upgrade is absolutely mind-blowing in version 2.x. A brilliant synth has now become a god synth.

The Xenopatch feature is the best AI-based plugin feature I ever experienced so far. Sometimes it makes pretty accurate replications of your input samples as a synth patch, but it mostly just picks up a bit of the texture, tonaliy and rhythm and comes up with new variations that are just cool in their own right, and I love that :).

Also here's my video review:

https://youtu.be/4RChHzxEBFM?si=iha3tdX_mvJShDPI

This is one of the most individual sounding FX plugins out there. Don't bother to wait for special offers because sonic charge don't do these. Maybe pricey but we'll worth it.

This one has better alternatives. I would opt for audio thing speakers instead. On the other side it's CPU friendly.

One of the Best Drum Synths out there.

Sequencer is powerful, easy and fun.

Patternarium is an almost endless source of inspiration and free patterns and presets.

Free updates for life .

Only Cons I've ever had with it have been addressed over the years and the newer Skins make it much easer on the eyes too.

Very Creative Multi Effect that spice up all kinds of sounds, works best on rhythmic sounds or to make statics sounds rhythmic. It can be harsh and noisy or working like a Saturator or Compressor. But mostly it destroy sounds.

Additional Firmware unleashed a bunch of creative Effect-Types u cant get from the basic Version. RingMod, Reverbs, Stutter and Glitchy Effects.

You have a Random Function, yes but its a bit hidden and complicated, the community wanted a better solution. The Devs wrote a script then, now u can very simple add a Random Button yourself in front of the Plugin. Now we have one Click Random Button!!! That just awesome. These Devs are definitly cool.

A very bizarre yet cool synthesizer with a new approach to "designing synths sounds".

Pros:

• Easy to understand workflow / handling.
• Can sound very good and clean and organic.
• Unbelievable low on CPU, seriously low.
• Never crashed so far.
• Is inspiring, since it's not a common way to get / create synthy sounds.
• Still in development, as far as I know; also Sonic Charge is very responsive via mail and their forum, which is also a big plus.

Things could be a bit better, in my opinion:

• The principle of preset designing could be taken even further, imo. E.g. having different aspects of the sound character to be randomized instead of the whole sound at once.
• The price might be a bit high for what it is, but in the end - as far as I know at least - the future versions are included for now. This might change, according to what I've read in the Sonic Charge forums, but in the end it's cool to know. So this is no real pro or con point tbh. :D.
• One review said that the preset system is good. Well to me it's not that good. It is good indeed to be able to click on a preset and directly be able to play it. This happens in the systems open dialogue box, though. So what might be missing is some kind of tagging functionality to better search through presets. The way it is now is: click and play and see if this sound fits. With THIS specific synth, it's no biggies, while the principle is to generate new random sounds anyway. So it's okay to me.
• New random sounds are often a bit too bizarre and not usable to me. Rather experimental, but this might also be a matter of taste or genre. I tested other random synths in the last weeks and Synplant indeed does a really good job in the end compared to ther synths, which generate random presets. So again: it's a rather subjective con point here again. And also not 100% negative.