impOSCar

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djk
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impOSCar

Post by djk » Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:50 pm

Ok, at the risk of starting yet another softsynth thread... I loaded up a newly purchased impOSCar last night and...wow!!! It sounds phenomenal. I threw on some CamleSpace and couldn't believe my ears.

Man, I can see this finding its way into a lot of my tracks. Anyway, it's got to be one of the best software bargains out there (around $100 USD street). Relatively low CPU usage too.

Anyway, I had to share...
1.7 Pentium M IBM Thinkpad with XP Pro SP2; MOTU 828mkII; Trigger Finger; Live 5; Reason 3.0; lots of soft synths and plugs; Guitar Rig 2; Motif 7; Nord Lead 2; PRS McCarty, Fender, Am std Strat; Larrivee D-03; a bunch of outboard gear; and cheap wine.

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Post by Nav » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:09 pm

I love imposcar!!!

Crystal method use a real oscar and then they found imposcar and thats how I first foudn out about it, I really like it!

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Post by Sales Dude McBoob » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:53 pm

Very unique sound. Very full sounding. Agreed. Killer synth!

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Post by SubFunk » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:54 pm

impOSCar is great, but for me the freakin' king has to be Crystal, it's even FREE !!! 8O , yupp, that's my reaction about it... it's really FREE , a lttle CPU hog, thou... but the sound and tweakability... pays back!!!

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Post by Moody » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:15 pm

I do about a song a year and impOscar is in all of them. :D
Ableton’s engineers are hard
at work developing code that will allow our software to predict the future, but we don’t
anticipate having this available until at least the next major release.

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Post by dave999z » Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:15 am

i got it for Xmas but haven't installed it yet, because I'm currently migrating to Mactel.

Anyone know if we're likely to ever see a mactel-compatible version of this?

Otherwise, I can't really use it.

:cry:

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Post by Mike Goodwin » Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:27 am

impOSCar is totaly fantastic.

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Post by popsicko » Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:15 am

If GMedia for some reason decided not to support Macintel machines then I simply would not upgrade. I'd keep my G5 as long as I could just to run ImpOSCar and Oddity. They are that important to me. I can claim olds school on these cuz' I've had them since they were not cheap, and not availble at most retailers. The preset management is crap though, as well as standalone version. They really could use a minor upgrade.
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Post by 12micsn1 » Sat Feb 25, 2006 2:24 am

My first softsynth was the imposcar love this one.
Vote for Pedro.

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Post by Mike Goodwin » Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:14 am

popsicko wrote:If GMedia for some reason decided not to support Macintel machines then I simply would not upgrade. I'd keep my G5 as long as I could just to run ImpOSCar and Oddity. They are that important to me. I can claim olds school on these cuz' I've had them since they were not cheap, and not availble at most retailers. The preset management is crap though, as well as standalone version. They really could use a minor upgrade.
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the preset management is not very good I totaly agree

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Post by Nav » Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:08 pm

Mike Goodwin wrote:
popsicko wrote:If GMedia for some reason decided not to support Macintel machines then I simply would not upgrade. I'd keep my G5 as long as I could just to run ImpOSCar and Oddity. They are that important to me. I can claim olds school on these cuz' I've had them since they were not cheap, and not availble at most retailers. The preset management is crap though, as well as standalone version. They really could use a minor upgrade.
-b
the preset management is not very good I totaly agree
I manage the presets in live works ok for me like this, but yeah should relaly be sorted out in the thing!

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Post by simon-d » Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:30 pm

I really used to love this vst too. I bought it when I was using Cubase some time ago, but under Live I can't seem to figure out how to change the library bank- I've been diggin' around the support pages at gmediamusic.com. But I can't find anything about this subject. Now I don't know, but I can't help thinking I'm the dork here. The solution is probably right in front of me... But I can't see it. Anyone?

Edit: uh yaerh, I'm on a 17" PB, OSX 10.4.4, Live 5.x

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Post by ILTK » Sat Feb 25, 2006 7:24 pm

Useually you can just look in the folder where the vst is to see how the preset banks are structured, looking for files with names you recognize (Same as banknames/Presetnames) then drop new preset/bank files in that folder using the same structure.

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Post by simon-d » Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:54 pm

ILTK wrote:Useually you can just look in the folder where the vst is to see how the preset banks are structured, looking for files with names you recognize (Same as banknames/Presetnames) then drop new preset/bank files in that folder using the same structure.
Hvis jeg lige må være så fræk at skrive på dansk, nu jeg kan se du også er fra dk. Jeg ved hvordan jeg skifter preset, men der ligger jo kun ca. 20-25 presets i den aktive bank. Jeg har i omegnen af 20 andre banke jeg godt kunne tænke mig at bruge nogle lyde fra. I Cubase skulle jeg bare loade en ny bank, men den funktion kan jeg ikke finde når pluginet kører under Live. Ved du hvad jeg mener?

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Post by ILTK » Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:52 pm

Hvis de ligger som .fxb banker så skulle du bare kunne loade dine banker via Lives load bank function, doubleklick det track oscar ligger på, der hvor du kan klikke for at vise vst interfacet er save/load knapper, prøv at se hvad der sker hvis du loader en bank der, hvis cubase altså gemmer i fxb format, der er en hel masse gratis banker til oscar på gmedias hjemmeside og de er alle i fxb format lige til at loade.

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