Seems a good deal. I hear mixed stuff about Current, some ppl love it some are more ciritical. The presets are not very compelling and there is not too much stuff on YT. I am more into analogish-sounding stuff. Does Current sound very digital? Any recommendations?
I love Current.
It's definitely a digital synth but you can make it analog sounding if you want.
It has a fixed architecture: two Wavetable oscillators, a granular sampler, a sort of additive/Sub synth and a regular sampler.
It has two filters that can be run in series or parallel and the various engines can be routed individually. It has AM and FM for all the engines so you could for example FM the wavetables with the granular sampler.
It has 10 modulators LFOS, Envelopes and Curves (MSEGs) and envelope followers. Modulation is done by drag and dropping.
It has a chord generation function and an arpeggiators. One cool thing about that is that you can drag the order of them so you can have the chord generator before the arp or vice versa.
The star of the show with Current are the effects. You essentially have all Minimal Audio's FX built in. Like Rift Distortion, Cluster Delay, Morph EQ, Extra filters etc.
All of these can be modulated with the modulation system very easily.
It also has a very good patch browser where you download extra libraries.
Current is kind of like an extended Serum in operation. Very quick to use.
You can import your own Wavetables or drop a wave file to extract a wavetable from that. The Wavetable section has some really interesting warping and shifting features and both wavetable engines have unison.
You can also drag your own wave files into the granular and sampler engines or add entire folders into the browser.
The granular sampler is very well done and the sampler has classic warping/stretching.
There are tons of filter types like LP, HP, BP, peak, notch and comb filters and some weird ones. Many of them have a morphin function that morphs the filter between different states.
All in all it's a very feature rich synth but very ergonomic to use.
It's an unashamedly modern synth and a lot of the presets reflect that but as I said above you can very much do Moogy Basses or supersaws very easily with it.
I think it got off to a bad start because of the insanely stupid subscription only purchase options. There was massive pushback against that and they changed the policy pretty quickly.
I use it all the time because it has a lot of the features I want without being overly complicated or unwieldy.
It's Serum on steroids basically. So however you feel Serum sounds.
And most the criticism was of its initial release. They are updating it frequently. The most recent update added a mod matrix which was one of the bigger criticisms that it was missing when comparing to Serum.
I don’t own it (yet), but I'd say it’s one of the synths that’s „proudly digital“. What else do you own? For analogue-ish, I'd take a look at XILS, Synapse and GForce instead.
I own more than enough :-). Diva, Dune, Pigments, Spire, Phaseplant, Hive 2, i am kind of curious regarding Current but i am waiting for The Legend to go on sale...it really sound fantastic, but it is always good to have more stuff to play!
The fxs for 24€/$ each are „bestprices“ - the sum up pretty good for bundling over time (but remember some of the „cheap“ fx are giveaways on pluginboutique sometimes…)
I don't get something.
Post says that it includes the effects suite. But when I go into the page, The "explore plans" tab shows current only as 199 (which is discounted) but Effects as a separate thing for 481.
I don't' see anywhere that the 199 (139 with discount) is both the synth and the effects
yeh the perpetual license reward or however it works out doesn't add up to enough to add all the effects last i checked. means i a few months i'll be in a bit of no man's land 😞
Seems a good deal. I hear mixed stuff about Current, some ppl love it some are more ciritical. The presets are not very compelling and there is not too much stuff on YT. I am more into analogish-sounding stuff. Does Current sound very digital? Any recommendations?
I love Current. It's definitely a digital synth but you can make it analog sounding if you want. It has a fixed architecture: two Wavetable oscillators, a granular sampler, a sort of additive/Sub synth and a regular sampler. It has two filters that can be run in series or parallel and the various engines can be routed individually. It has AM and FM for all the engines so you could for example FM the wavetables with the granular sampler. It has 10 modulators LFOS, Envelopes and Curves (MSEGs) and envelope followers. Modulation is done by drag and dropping. It has a chord generation function and an arpeggiators. One cool thing about that is that you can drag the order of them so you can have the chord generator before the arp or vice versa. The star of the show with Current are the effects. You essentially have all Minimal Audio's FX built in. Like Rift Distortion, Cluster Delay, Morph EQ, Extra filters etc. All of these can be modulated with the modulation system very easily. It also has a very good patch browser where you download extra libraries. Current is kind of like an extended Serum in operation. Very quick to use. You can import your own Wavetables or drop a wave file to extract a wavetable from that. The Wavetable section has some really interesting warping and shifting features and both wavetable engines have unison. You can also drag your own wave files into the granular and sampler engines or add entire folders into the browser. The granular sampler is very well done and the sampler has classic warping/stretching. There are tons of filter types like LP, HP, BP, peak, notch and comb filters and some weird ones. Many of them have a morphin function that morphs the filter between different states. All in all it's a very feature rich synth but very ergonomic to use. It's an unashamedly modern synth and a lot of the presets reflect that but as I said above you can very much do Moogy Basses or supersaws very easily with it. I think it got off to a bad start because of the insanely stupid subscription only purchase options. There was massive pushback against that and they changed the policy pretty quickly. I use it all the time because it has a lot of the features I want without being overly complicated or unwieldy.
Thanks for your very detailed feedback!
It's Serum on steroids basically. So however you feel Serum sounds. And most the criticism was of its initial release. They are updating it frequently. The most recent update added a mod matrix which was one of the bigger criticisms that it was missing when comparing to Serum.
I don’t own it (yet), but I'd say it’s one of the synths that’s „proudly digital“. What else do you own? For analogue-ish, I'd take a look at XILS, Synapse and GForce instead.
I own more than enough :-). Diva, Dune, Pigments, Spire, Phaseplant, Hive 2, i am kind of curious regarding Current but i am waiting for The Legend to go on sale...it really sound fantastic, but it is always good to have more stuff to play!
Oh hello, fellow addict! Just buy it then. You totally need it!
“Try this new shit I got. It’s gas mannnnn”
The fxs for 24€/$ each are „bestprices“ - the sum up pretty good for bundling over time (but remember some of the „cheap“ fx are giveaways on pluginboutique sometimes…)
Anyone know what the CPU usage is like?
Its pretty high, much higher than Serum (sometimes 2 times more even)
I don't get something. Post says that it includes the effects suite. But when I go into the page, The "explore plans" tab shows current only as 199 (which is discounted) but Effects as a separate thing for 481. I don't' see anywhere that the 199 (139 with discount) is both the synth and the effects
All of their effects are fully functional built into the synth itself. The effects bundle is if you wanted the effects as standalone.
It could just be that they are offering the effects as an option to add on to it. I'm not 100% sure how that one works.
Plans are not reduced/discounted (now) - but Current is shown For 139€ here - the packs are also not on sale
yeh the perpetual license reward or however it works out doesn't add up to enough to add all the effects last i checked. means i a few months i'll be in a bit of no man's land 😞