A-Grade Audio has released Replicant’s Dreams, a new sound library for Arturia CS-80V, inspired by the the Vangelis soundtrack to Blade Runner.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
“Comprised of 100 presets for Arturia CS80V (version 4 and up required). Heavily influenced by the Bladerunner soundtrack and old school cyberpunk aesthetic, the overall mood and character of this bank is emotive, cinematic and dreamy, with an undercurrent of tension lurking just below the surface.”
Features:
20 Keys
20 Pads
17 Basses
16 Leads
8 Plucks
5 Bells
5 FX
4 Arps
3 Synth Brass
3 Synth Percussion
Pricing and Availability
Replicant’s Dreams is available now with an intro price of $5.95 (normally $9.95).
Though it sounds nice, I do not ‘feel’ the Vangelis vibe. Never felt it with the Arturia CS-80 plugin, allthough Paul Schilling made some pretty good presets for Arturia.
The Memorymoon plugin ME80 might not have been updated in recent years, it does better in that area. Two hardware synths that also allude to a similar emotion is the Hydrasynth Deluxe in bitimbral mode or the Super Gemini (at least from what I heard so far).
I’m not hearing much of a Blade Runner vibe, either. Also, the reverb doesn’t seem right!
CS-80v is perfectly capable of doing it. Like you said, Schilling’s presets and demos are spot on. His work points out that the original CS-80 was only part of the Vangelis sound. How he processed it was hugely important, but also how he played it was crucial.
I saw a YouTube video a couple weeks ago where some guy demonstrated that the CS-80, pretty much, sounds like shit without effects. I never got to play with one, but the demonstration was pretty convincing.
The new ANX engine coupled with original samples and poly aftertouch on the new Montage M8x do a great job.
I’m not sure I see how these sounds were inspired by “Blade Runner”, at least not by the Vangelis score.
Its a cyberpunk thing, artificially amped up by name-dropping Vangelis. The truth is that his playing style was often very simple, so this set is as much about his choice of colors as not. It certainly can’t provide his creativity, but it seems like a good batch of starter sounds from the “Blade Runner” period of dystopian science fiction flicks. I like buying patch sets once in a while, because that 100 sounds often ends up being 20-30 I can tweak into real keepers.
“Inspired by”.
It doesn’t say “exact copies of” anything in particular. Maybe a recent screening of Blade Runner inspired someone to put a handful of BBs in a bunch of empty beer cans, and record throwing them, and a bunch of mayonnaise jars down a concrete stairwell. Inspiration.
Be thou not so f#@%ing judge-y my children. Everyone is just doing the best they can.
OR, provide links to where we can download your 100% accurate CS80V Blade Runner patches. I’ll buy them!
sounds like a VST synth, not impressive at all.
Here’s the second demo, what I should’ve done instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atj0NQgGBxY
Harsh lesson learned. I will definitely do things differently next time.
Heh… oh, everything sounds like a VST unless its hardware cranking through a decent sound system live. Even then, your ears only reach 20Hz-20Khz and usually less. I’ve attended great concerts with trouser-flapping bass bins, but the real truth is that all of it sounds damned good now. Toto uses Pianoteq live and there’s no fakery to it. Every tool is a little different from the others. Its up to you to make ’em bark. Its called synthesis.
5,000 fingers of Dr T, was a much better movie.
Not sure about that, but Dr. T’s Keyboard Controlled Sequencer for the C64 is a classic!
https://www.furious.com/perfect/drt.html