It's kind of dependent on what you put into it.I'd like to ask you or whoever is reading this something I thought about that might be limiting my enthusiasm for Sumu so far and from what I'm hearing on YT for example: It usually sounds somehow thin. It sounds, at least to my ears, like a synth that's only running on one oscillator and without any detuned or sub-oscillator. Do you know what I mean?I had the same opinion as you at first and didn't buy it but I caved and eventually did and now that I've put the time in I think it's one of the best soft synths of the last 10 years or so.I really wanted to like this synth. I just can’t anything musical out of it. On paper it sounds great, but in practice… None of the demos I’ve heard or watched sound useful, either. Maybe sfx for sci-fi movies.
Edit: of the useable sounds I’ve heard people get out of it, they could easily be mimicked by dozens of other synths with 1/4 the cpu usage.
The key to getting more musical things out of it while taking advantage of its features is all in what you choose as partials...
How does/can one thicken sounds in it, besides using effects like chorus, spacial or reverb? Can sounds be layered and then detuned?
If you have a sound that is dense in the lower end then it will be reflected in the output. You can restrict the amount of top end partials with the pulses section and restricting them to the lower end.
You can then plug the pulses in to the time input of the partials and/or to the amp input.
You can also adjust the Y axis of the vector field so that it favours lower partials.
Finally you can lower the pitch of the FM/AM modulator to be lower pitch.
In other words there are many ways to make it sound low and dark.
I think why you hear a lot of higher stuff is that most sound sources will have lots of mid to high end content/harmonics.
Statistics: Posted by kraster — Tue Jun 18, 2024 10:41 am
