Hi!
ive been searching online, i want to know the main difference between their lineup; especially cycles vs choreographs vs spectres.
there seems to be overlap, i’m wondering if someone here owns all the plugins, and can elaborate on which one is best (suited) for what applications? I’m mainly looking for a good texture generator.
Thanks!
I think in cycles and choreographs you can import your own samples. In spectres you can’t, it’s locked with sounds they chose for it.
Some info if i remember correctly, now i am questioning if i got this right
In a nutshell:
Choreographs is more of a “traditional” sound generator. It has a few layers of samples that you can then layer and run through a Euclidean sequencer.
Cycles is more about taking a sample/loop and then processing it via either granular or the looper. The looper can be sequenced and is liked for exactly the use case you mention, making textures.
I have both Cycles and Spectres, and they are both great at this but in different ways. As mentioned above Cycles has granular and looper modes, and is lots of fun because you can drop your own samples into it and chop them up with the engine. Spectres is maybe a bit harder to explain but effectively it has 2 layers and polyphonic loop points in the samples- it makes amazing textures / atmospheres. You can’t import your own samples but it has a really extensive library (which just got an upgrade), and tons of really well designed presets.
If I were going to recommend a “starter” S&A plugin I think I would go with Cycles, but both are great for textures!
One thing to note is that both are built as Kontakt instruments, which personally I find pretty clunky