Had a little more time with CT and the editor, definitely a few things I’d like to see, especially WRT to QOL stuff for the patch editor, it is usable but a bit too much jumping between pages involved - like the macros are at the top of the screen, but you have to jump to another screen to edit them etc. I also would prefer if it was scalable, I don’t need to see things as big and with as much space around them personally, especially if it means more can be shown on the page.
As usual with new synths I do a few tests almost straight away to see if they meet certain requirements, things like how the envelopes respond, how the filter sounds across its range, oscillator ranges and so on. I think the engine is decent enough, it did not blow my mind with anything as expected, but seems pretty flexible. I wasn’t able to create some of the sounds exactly as I wanted, for example the acid test - I could not get a very accurate TB-303 sound, mainly due to the square wave, slide behaviour and filter response, however I did manage to make a decent acid patch that I’d happily use.
I think it will be pretty good for some nice pad sounds, Juno-esque stuff etc. For drum sounds I found the envelopes a bit imprecise for some of the drum sounds I like, but I’ll probably delve a bit deeper at some point, however I would not most of the time waste a voice for drums, but it can be handy for sampling them. For bass it seems ok too, not going to worry some of my other gear, but I reckon definitely usable for certain kinds of bass sound for sure.
I think I prefer CR overall, and if I just had to have one it would be CR, but I think CT makes a nice support unit, a lot of the workflow is similar* and CT polyphonic parts and midi tracks will come in handy when using them together. CR seems overall more capable of being a standalone song maker though.
*I really hope for some harmonisation of workflow features in future updates, where this is possible, it is a bit jarring to be using one of them and realising, oh this one does not have that. Examples being scales on CR, keyboard pitch for samples on CT, patch flip on CT synth tracks, to name a few.
Finally I think making patches on CT using components is a bit of a chore sometimes, it would be great to have some template sounds both in components but also on the hardware that can be simply edited on the hardware then saved for later fettling on components to do more detailed edits.
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