It's Available!! THE BLADE

Just ordered it cant wait till I get this... SICKKK!!

http://www.youtube.com/wa...ed&v=AHxhhgWXCdk#!



Here's the Link! 
http://www.timespace.com/...b%20Papen%20Blade.html

I just got the serial number version . It went on sale this morning. I opted out of the boxed version .. Btw theres a limited time offer .. I paid $106.00 I think it will go to $179.00 in few weeks. Can never go wrong with A Rob Papen Synth.... Off to work right now can't wait to get home to load it up... :)  

I'm sure it will be........cutting edge.....ha ha.

Ya

ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous! I am blown away about how much fun this software is.. And I know I've only scratched the surface.. Well worth $106.usd .. Works perfect in sonar x1 D 64 bit ..no problems.
 I would say that this software is taylored towards EDM musicians . :) Love IT!~..

Bajan Blue


Hi 
Just purchased Blade - but I managed to get it for $99 - I purchased from Time and Space - if you live outside Europe (as I do) when you go to check out the VAT disappears!
Here's the link if anyone's interested
Nigel

http://www.timespace.com/...erial_download%29.html

I ordered it from the same place, it was £65.79.. 
 Thats in British Pounds  and that ends up being about $105.23 usd .. NO VAT :) So Nigel how do you like this Synth? The more I use it the more I see it becoming 2012's #1 VST synth.. I have an arsenal of Vsti's and this is by far my Favorite, Next for me is Dune than Z8ta-2.. 


John

John
Not had too much time with Blade as of yet, but I have to say I am extremely impressed so far - The past year or so I have tried to move back to using my hardware synths, so this is the first software synth I've purchased for some considerable time - and I think I made a wise purchase as this does seem genuinely different to me - how you finding it?
Nigel

Zo


Rob papen synth are good but i a lawayz had crashes when i tried it back then ....any words on that : stability /Cpu hit ?

Holy crap this is a nice synth. I ordered this a couple of days ago then realized I had screwed up and ordered the DVD version. The nice folks at timespace took care of things promptly which took a day or so due to the time zone difference. In the meanwhile became concerned after I read some less than favourable "reviews" at KVR on the synth, and about Rob Papen's synths in general - which surprised me since I had always considered his synths to be among softsynth elite.
This is really nice. There are banks upon banks of presets which give a good estimation of what the synth is capable of. But everything is very tweakable, although not exactly conventional. The XY Pad and the Harmolator are begging to be experimented with and you can get some really nice sounds that move and change. I think it is a great tool for pads, textures, arps, cinema, sound effects, etc.
I have Blade (64 bit version) in a SONAR x1 expanded x64 project with a number of other soft synths and it is middle of the pack in CPU use. When playing alone with a basic drumloop playing in Phatmatik I could make it go into the red on the CPU meter if I played really big chords on some Pad presets with a lot of modulation. I have a fairly modest system (older quad core 8400, 8 GB). I put it on par with all the AAS synths, Wusikstation, Rapture, Z3ta2+, etc. Seems solid here. No crashes, dropouts, etc. Installer worked perfectly, discovered right away in the Plugin Manager. I only installed the 64 bit version.
After playing with this for a while, I came to the conclusion that many of the pundits whose "reviews" I read hadn't actually tried the synth. They were reacting to the look of the thing, which I have to agree is kind of cheesy looking. But great book in a cheesy cover. Hope this helps you to decide. Any way the nice folks at Timespace were first class in every respect, especially Dan Barton in technical sales. (not affiliated in any way - just appreciate the quick and thorough service).

Zo


How many presets ? 

Dunno. Not at my DAW at the moment. Will be back this evening and do an inventory and let you know.
As for "regular" synth stuff - not as many presets as I would have expected in this area. But that's what ultimately sold me on it. It is not another Z3ta2/zebra/Blue/Albino/Rhino/ which I've got lots of. I think it will do that kind of thing but you can tell Papen's emphasis was on sound creation. I think this is a tool where you can imagine a sound and create it. (well we'll see LOL)

Here's a little more info I found..

http://www.youtube.com/wa...ture=player_embedded#!

Hi Brando,
I also read those reviews at KVR and was surprised at some of the negativity. Thanks for giving your input and review on this.....I'm going to demo it and.....well....probably end up picking this up. Are you able to load any .wav (or other) file types into this to mangle the sounds?
I like the XY pad on Alchemy (amongst the excellent sounds) and this looks like it might be a good tool as well.

Do you have a link to some of your music? 

Thanks,

Yes, I'll play with the demo this weekend probably have another GAS attack!

From most people that say "I don't have anything I feel good enough about to share at the moment.", usually are the ones that write really good music, but are too modest to share. I'll bet a Rob Papen Blade that you fall into this catagory....lol. :)  
For me, being just a hobbyist, it's a bit intimidating to share my amateur work amongst all these pro's, but I'd certainly appreciate all their advice/comments and hopefully improve from there.  

Thks all for the feedback !!

well i see it not complete like an alchemy or electra X (bread and butter , and wav import ability) but very good in its area : "atmospheric"...gonna check "dune" , i heard about it but never took the time to check .... 

I think tools like these are pretty cool? And provide a lot of room for people to create some pretty amazing things. But I'm wondering if the whole "song wrighting?" And musucianship aspectect can get muddied by such things? Will we be writing music in 20 years? Or will it be our machines? I guess it will still be recorded in a Roland product :-) And don't get me wrong, I enjoy and appreciate the technical aspect. But I enjoy "the organic aspect" of creating music as well and think that it is paramount.