Banquet
Active Member
I've just bought Cycles (and the Auras bundle) and have been playing with it tonight for the first time. I'm not sure if there's a manual but I loaded some of the presets and changed a few settings without really knowing what I was doing and they sounded great! The interface is very cool and it seems like you can tweak lots of things with very musical results.
I have a Moog Grandmother hooked up to a Chase Bliss Mood Pedal. When I watched the demo videos for Cycles it reminded me very much of the type of sound Chase Bliss are doing, which I really love.
So I recorded a 4 bar random arp pattern from the Moog, through the Mood pedal and loaded that into Cycles. That actually helped me figure out some of the controls because I knew how the loop should sound so I could better tell how the controls were altering it. And wow, really wow... I've loaded my own loops and samples into granular engines before with mixed results... very often ending up quite disappointing, but the loops I've tried tonight sound AMAZING through cycles. So organic and beautiful , I could jut tweak these sounds forever and not get bored. And very inspiring sounds for me. I can't wait to go through the rest of the presets but particularly to push more samples and loops from my hardware into this brilliant engine! Much respect to the devs... I'm thrilled!
I have a Moog Grandmother hooked up to a Chase Bliss Mood Pedal. When I watched the demo videos for Cycles it reminded me very much of the type of sound Chase Bliss are doing, which I really love.
So I recorded a 4 bar random arp pattern from the Moog, through the Mood pedal and loaded that into Cycles. That actually helped me figure out some of the controls because I knew how the loop should sound so I could better tell how the controls were altering it. And wow, really wow... I've loaded my own loops and samples into granular engines before with mixed results... very often ending up quite disappointing, but the loops I've tried tonight sound AMAZING through cycles. So organic and beautiful , I could jut tweak these sounds forever and not get bored. And very inspiring sounds for me. I can't wait to go through the rest of the presets but particularly to push more samples and loops from my hardware into this brilliant engine! Much respect to the devs... I'm thrilled!