This Plugin Is Insanely Cool! Dawesome Novum Combines Granular and Spectral Synthesis!

[@SuperLinuxAudioGuru]

I'm so tempted to buy this plugin. The possibilities are endless, especially for Ambient/chillout genres.

[@generalawareness101]

I found it extremely limiting myself. Potential for sure around V3.x it will be worth revisiting for me.

[@LazerMage77]

Statze Azure uses it and his sounds are amazing! Go check him out.

[@papadaya3540]

Whenever a vst has a panic button, it means you can really go crazy. Cool stuff!

[@GizzyDillespee]

Deposit sample of children singing happy birthday. Receive post-apocalyptic robot slasher soundtrack in return.

[@plutonthedarkmystic]

Wasn´t shure to get this one ... i own Abyss since 1 year now being a huge fan of Absynth, of course ^^. In minute 12 of your video i bought Novum now ... *lol*. THX for this great review!

[@DashGlitch]

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

[@amadthingonabicycle2774]

Two of my fave content producers, Dash and S1gns of L1fe, getting into Novum. You know it’s going to be a winner/

[@bulentkamali]

Dash kicks ass.

[@BigMTBrain]

EXCELLENT Demo! SOLD! Thank you... SUBSCRIBED!... and checking out your offerings as well.

[@KordTaylor]

Cool plug-in. Thank you for the video. 👏🏻

[@xetamurai]

Interesting, thanks… I recently sold my GR-1 since I believe the future of granular is with computer or modular… I will try this plug-in and already Imagine to feed the Morphagene with it… Another thing to investigate… The list builds up!!!

[@HJPhilippi]

You said it. The GR-1 is a cool device, but spending 850,- EUR just for having some physical knobs at hand...? For half the price you get a whole bunch of completely different VSTs that open up new worlds of granular synthesis. Sorry, Tasty Chips, but it's getting really hard to keep up.

[@buckycore]

Dude. This plugin. 😍😍😍 Literally the default preset is one of the greatest sound ever made. All of Dawesome's plugins are godly

[@vvcv__00]

Nice video introducing Novum. Novum, along with Choreographs (and other Slate & Ash stuff to a lesser degree) Phase Plant, and increasingly Modus, are my favorite synths by a pretty wide margin. Anyway, just wanted to point out that at around 5:08 your playing sounded highly similar to the very nice sound near the of the movie Annihilation. That wonky sound (when Natalie Portman was looking into the black-alien-blob-thing) many people were wanting to figure out. I can get pretty close with a cello or guitar and some reverb and delays (both reversed); but, it's pretty interesting how two (probably different from the composers method) different methods can get pretty close to the movies sound.

[@macronencer]

This one has been on my shopping list since I first saw it! I love what you made from the flute sound - it kind of reminded me of a sound effect from the game Myst.

[@midinerd]

at 4:45 how do you get your head to fadein and out in the upper-right-hand corner like some kind of video God

[@DashGlitch]

editing

[@randomchannel323]

I definitely got horror movie vibes from the edited sound

[@hhal9000]

Yes this does look very interesting.I have to say I do find Granular Synthesis particularly fascinating for sound design.I think the makers of Surge are working on something in this area?

[@umanoid1523]

I was hoping you’d take a look at this. I downloaded it a few days ago and am using it in a track. Its amazing. I havent touched the control’s and done a deep dive yet i just went through some presets and did a little tweaking. I own Abyss and love that and im definitely going to pick this up. For doing pads and soundscapes it’s incredible. Im betting you can do more but its easy to create some dramatic spaces. The clouds FX is also a huge part if that.

[@cryptout]

Futuristic, need to try it soon.

[@jm.Beats.]

Very interesting looking plugin. I might have to try this one out. Does anyone know of a similar plugin that let's you drag and drop one-shots and stack or blend them like this one?

[@Falkon303]

When you added the reverb, suddenly it all made sense. Also, might have to totally buy this.

[@xav99]

Love These Videos. Keep going💯

[@Psyolopher]

Damn, that's some interesting Timbre! Wish I could afford this badboy!

[@GrootsieTheDog]

Are the envelopes for shaping the grain loops or acting like a conventional amp envelope? i.e. many granular synths have something like a square or a sine curve to change the attack of each grain loop to create softer or harder grains. thx

[@sekorsky9671]

Very cool thing! Thanks!

[@papadaya3540]

This is a crazy tool for all zenon peeps out there

[@anonimoust]

That Cam Is dope

[@glomerol8300]

This, which at time of writing does not seem to appear on Dawesome's site, seems a bit like the old iZotope Iris 2. I guess some people are getting tired of the old 'hardware/analog emulations', although this seems similar insofar as 'fat, growly and/or aggressive' sounds are concerned, if with some 'graininess' added for good measure. Flute sound is nice, if maybe a touch screechy. Is 'granular synthesis' really 'synthesis' (whatever that is) or is it more like micro-sampling, like dicing up samples into very small fragments and playing them back (in funny ways)? iZotope, in its Iris documentation, is calling a single-cycle waveform an 'oscillator'. Anyway, it should be interesting to see what Madrona Labs comes up with, with regard to Sumu.

[@vdub4216]

First 🤣 - Looks like Dawesome have pretty cool plugins

[@unkleskunky]

very cool

[@lX-NDR]

Its so expensive. Is it on sale sometimes?

[@LiftPizzas]

Does it support tuning files or is it stuck in 12EDO?

[@Teeb2023]

Heads-up! 50% off Novum right now.

[@PendelSteven]

Seems you missed the note on Steinberg Padshop 2.

[@DashGlitch]

Hmmm, Padshop 2 is capable of some nice sounds but it's a bit of a PITA to program because the interface is a trainwreck and the modulation system seems like it was programmed in the 90s. Also I believe it only uses a single layer to spectral-resynth, as oppose to Novum's 6.

[@mylogify]

Dash how about a dark ambient track next time, with Novum, and Portal etc.... Some kind of atmospheric kind of dark Ambient... Have you used Novum and Portal together before? : )

[@squoblat]

6:40 - this is the sound of Trent Reznor's inner monologue

[@MagnaKay]

lmao

[@MagnaKay]

Man this sounds so cool! I bet it's kind of a CPU killer though, isn't it?

[@KL-tn1xc]

anything sample based so also granular stuff is really light on the cpu.

[@joel-s8z9w]

I absolutely love the synth, but! I have a feeling that there's gonna be a new 'Worst Cpu Offenders'(even for new systems!) thing happening. One instance of NOVUM maxes out my [ late 2018 i7(6cores+6virtual) +64Gb ram ] mac mini. So, How many instances of Novum can the M1 handle before it crashes. How does M1 stack up against the new M2pro SOC in the new mac minis? Sample libraries are not the worst for loading the system down anymore, its these crazy new plugins... Instead of loading thousands of tracks, just see how many instances of NOVUM, or other high demand plugins, can load in the system to max it out. Someone pls do a comparison between the m1 and the new m2 mini with the m2pro soc... ...forget about 'muh 5 thousand tracks' reviews. Dont need 500 tracks when theres these crazy new synths to max out your system...

[@TerenceKearns]

Kinda reminds me of Apparillo.

[@mylogify]

I........ like!

[@dasczwo]

Awesome! But can it sound beautiful? So many synths and plugins for dystopic and horror movies out there…

[@DashGlitch]

I guess that is pretty subjective, it sounds beautiful to me, I guess i'm into the dystopian vibe. Which other synths can do this, out of interest?

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Soundtracky. Very very soundtracky.

[@Jason75913]

hahaha, you picked it up as well Abyss didn't really impress me. edit: I got Novum, as did some other youtubers whose channels I'm sub'd to, where I heard previews edit2: I think I'm confusing Abyss with some other plugin with a similarly juvenile aesthetic to its UI, but Abyss is much better

[@joel-s8z9w]

pls dont hide the cpu meter :/

[@DashGlitch]

It's still visible lol, but also kinda irrelevant considering all systems are different - mine being over a decade old ;)

[@faganwilcox2443]

My gawd i hope they bring this to ipad

[@matrilhamilton1568]

Why do you have your mouth wide open on your thumbnail ? are you okay?

[@DashGlitch]

no, please send help!

[@cheopys]

“Very unique.” Please stop.

[@joel-s8z9w]

i think its much easier and faster to take one audio sample and get a bunch of awesome, different timbres out of it much faster than with alchemy. Not knocking alchemy, & i agree with you when most ppl say 'unique'. But novum IS unique. probably the highest demand on CPU when compared with other granular synths. This one maxes out my late 2018 i7 mac mini with just one instance, with some of the presets

[@glomerol8300]

"Why do you have your mouth wide open on your thumbnail ? are you okay?" ~ @matrilhamilton1568 "no, please send help!" ~ Dash Glitch Cheesy, cliche 'click-bait', cuz 'creativity' along with a distracting, disembodied talking head during the tutorial/lecture. Dash, consider removing it altogether when talking about some things. You Toob is too full of cookie-cutter crowd-outs of valuable screen real estate and one's attention/patience with their talking heads compressed in some corner of the screen. Yes, I get the narcissistic or cult of personality angle, if it's part of it, but I think you can do better.

[@DashGlitch]

hows the content?

[@glomerol8300]

What's the point in having your head squished into a corner of the screen anyway? It might even be more work for you than if you just intro'd yourself at the beginning and then got out of the way and let the software, or whatever your subject is, do the talking, so to speak, while you narrated/moved the cursor/etc. in the background. I mean, why stop there? Why not green-screen and shrink yourself down and point at your then-huge computer screen as if it's a projection-screen and you're on-stage doing a TED talk? (Actually, that's not a bad idea in a way.) Anyway, I lately watch so much of this stuff (getting back into music)-- much of it full of annoying flailing arms, stupid time-consuming logo intros, far too much babbling at the beginning, and then with compressed babbling heads for the rest of their tutorials (among other gripes)-- that I forgot about the content in your specific video here. But your content in general, if recalled, is decent, so this one probably was as well. That's why I bother in your case. With many I just kill the video and move on. Also, what was it that I think Marshall McLuhan once say? The medium is the message? Well that seems part of it anyway. From the Brave search engine header: " 'The medium is the message' is a phrase coined by Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan in his 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man... McLuhan proposed that the form of a communication medium, not the messages it carries, should be the primary focus of study... The aphorism has become a frequently cited phrase in the study of digital humanities, as well as in pop culture... McLuhan argued that modern electronic communications would have far-reaching sociological, aesthetic, and philosophical consequences, to the point of actually altering the ways in which we experience the world... McLuhan believed that *the nature of the medium that was being used to share a message was more important than the actual content* of the message being shared."

[@DashGlitch]

@@glomerol8300 You should put this level of passion and energy into your music rather than comments brother, you will benefit greatly

[@BappinProductions]

@@DashGlitchor into pruning their neckbeard 😂