Facebook Comments GTRman Said...
This video tells you nothing.
14-Dec-11 07:42 AM
Andreas Said...
W.T.F. is up with that video?!? Reminds me of the SongSmith video..
14-Dec-11 08:33 AM
robgs Said...
The video reminds me of the stuff that contestants in "The Apprenctice" dish out. Half expect Alan Sugar to turn up.. "You're fired you schlagg!"
14-Dec-11 09:11 AM
I Don't Like Music Said...
The advert doesn't help sell the software and based on the response so far seems to be acting less as a teaser and more as a turn-off. The video the company posted showing a beta tester running through a few presets is more intriguing. It may do well if priced appropriately and if it sounds as good as it looks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-81k8rJB93g&context=C2dbf3ADOEgsToPDskKk62a5WnQ9ImT7cFBIJ3WN
14-Dec-11 09:33 AM
RP Said...
On what planet would the modeling agency couple sit down on their designer sofa and have a laugh while they programmed analogue synths on their iPads. One some weird level, this advert is genius because it's tripping my head out altogether.
14-Dec-11 09:39 AM
Minijack Said...
That song is pretty much the last thing I can imagine that anyone into synths would want to hear.
14-Dec-11 11:36 AM
DBM Said...
All hype and no substance ..... Tell them that line of reasoning is unexceptable and do not buy .
14-Dec-11 02:59 PM
DBM Said...
All hype and no substance ..... Tell them that line of reasoning is unexceptable and do not buy .
14-Dec-11 02:59 PM
raphus Said...
This synth allegedly features "beautiful hand-crafted real 3D music hardware." Has "real" come to mean "virtual" or are they also selling hardware? Is war peace? Is freedom slavery?
14-Dec-11 04:12 PM
Robert Said...
Hi,
I'm the developer of Physynth. It's pretty heartbreaking to read your comments. We asked Film Creatives nicely to make a short ad for us so we could promote Physynth to the mass market as well as the synthesiser crowd.
I would like to ask you nicely not to judge the app and rip it to pieces until you've seen a proper review of it or actually tried it out. There is such a thing as don't judge a book by it's cover.
It's not only marketed at you guys. The reality is there's only two of us here, and we've struggled for 7 months living off beans to get it made. If it doesn't do well, there won't be many more synths that think differently. Palmsounds and other places will soon have a review up and we've sent a promo code to sonicstate. We're not trying to hide anything here.
You can access my twitter and flame me directly @squaredape or the artist/musician @chimpsquared
Thanks for your time guys, I realise there is going to be criticism, but lets not rip the little guy to pieces now eh?
-Rob
14-Dec-11 09:03 PM
Eric Said...
Hi Rob,
I Rep'ed KORG for five years and while they are a great company, I never saw any promos as well produced as this. I think it serves it's purpose to spark interest. I know I'm interested in your product. Well done, and good luck!
14-Dec-11 10:31 PM
Eric Said...
Hi Rob,
I Rep'ed KORG for five years and while they are a great company, I never saw any promos as well produced as this. I think it serves it's purpose to spark interest. I know I'm interested in your product. Well done, and good luck!
14-Dec-11 10:32 PM
Eric Said...
Hi Rob,
I Rep'ed KORG for five years and while they are a great company, I never saw any promos as well produced as this. I think it serves it's purpose to spark interest. I know I'm interested in your product. Well done, and good luck!
14-Dec-11 10:36 PM
Eric Said...
Hi Rob,
I Rep'ed KORG for five years and while they are a great company, I never saw any promos as well produced as this. I think it serves it's purpose to spark interest. I know I'm interested in your product. Well done, and good luck!
14-Dec-11 11:03 PM
Eric Said...
Hi Rob,
I Rep'ed KORG for five years and while they are a great company, I never saw any promos as well produced as this. I think it serves it's purpose to spark interest. I know I'm interested in your product. Well done, and good luck!
14-Dec-11 11:32 PM
Blue Monster 65 Said...
I must admit the spot left me scratching my head and wondering what exactly it was for! I think for my purposes, I'll have to look at the above You Tube video to find out some of what I want to know. I would suggest you may wish to make more links to things like that for musicians.
That said, I wish you the best of luck, Rob! I hope you do well (no more eating beans - I know what that's like).
15-Dec-11 08:01 AM
The Guvnor Said...
I can't see why there are all the complaints. Has anyone actually used the app other than me? The teaser vid unfortunately has been used to unfairly gauge how good the synth is.
Apart from the on-screen keyboard being too small, no Core MIDI support from what I can see, a little bit of latency and a very small quantity of sounds (all of which Rob & his team can no doubt turn around pretty quickly) , the thing is awesome.
At $3 its an absolute steal. It has a real interesting take on sound manipulation, and an absolutely gorgeous look and feel.
I also love the way how when you tilt your iPad, the whole screen perspective changes.
Well done.
15-Dec-11 01:23 PM
RP Said...
There's a lot of guys called Eric who rep'd for Korg on this comments page :)
Rob, if indeed you are the developer, the critisisms were about the ad, not the app. Congrats on building something I would not be able to.
In all seriousness, I have yet to see an App promo as effective as just a close up of an iPad with some hands actually showing off the features in action. That'll cover about every demographic you need and save you from spending unnecessarily...IMHO.
15-Dec-11 02:03 PM
raphus Said...
My complaint was definitely about the advertising, referring to a computer program as "real" and "hardware," not the program itself. Best of luck to its developers, and here's to more truth and less over-the-top hyperbole in advertising.
15-Dec-11 05:06 PM
Blue Monster 65 Said...
I didn't think I was complaining at all! I just had no idea what the spot was for; I thought perhaps the wrong video had been uploaded!
That said, my wishes for Rob and his synth stand. Further investigation confirms it's rather interesting and I'll have to play around with it.
16-Dec-11 07:17 AM
Minijack Said...
Rob, I for one have downloaded Physynth and I'm looking forward to checking it out. I can assure you that my comments were only specifically directed at the awful, very unfortunate music in that teaser video. Would have been much better to hear what the synth itself sounds like. Other than that, looks like a pretty intriguing app for $2.99.
16-Dec-11 11:39 AM
tommy Said...
So people playing with an Ipad. So let us hear what they are doing, or give us a Voice Over to explain something. The ad was just a lot of feel good nothing. It looks like people are mindlessly sitting around wasting their time. Please stop insulting people by creating this type of useless trash.
18-Dec-11 08:13 PM
Koshdukai Said...
Bought it, made some suggestions (embedded manual zoom, CoreMIDI) to Robert via Twitter (very quick feedback and reply on his part, which was great), read all the manual (because you really need to read it so you know you're not leaving any existing feature out) and... well, it's a nice looking musical app, although I wished some of its eye-candy could be turned off. Dealing with real screen-glare worsened by the virtual glare/bloom it's kind'of a pain in certain situations.
It's definitely not a synth, since there's no real-time filter nor ADSR envelope control.
It's a ROMpler with a cute 4x physics based performance play engine, which isn't really my thing but I'm sure others may like it. The rules to build the performance scenarios are quite sophisticated, with ghost notes, create/kill note "walls" etc, but... in the end, it's really just a ROMpler with 4 "funny" and difficult to control/program poly sequencers.
It reminds me a lot of an existing free app called Soundrop which... actually, is really (more?) fun and simpler to use :)
My fault and my bad for thinking Physynth used physics as one of the performance controller of an evolved synth engine (Animoog comes to mind), which is not. ...maybe it was the name that fooled me... Phy(sics)SYNTH! :/
If it was more expensive, then I would be a little bit disappointed with my decision of buying it, but since it isn't, I'm ok with it and I'm curious if I'll use it more when CoreMIDI support is added :)
19-Dec-11 09:48 AM
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