TURN ANY SAMPLE INTO A SYNTH (Tomofon review)

[@germanlaguer8257]

I cannot imagine why this plugin is not one of the most popular in the world. It achieves what Fairlight and Synclavier tried to do in their time: sampling and resynthesis. And it does it almost automatically! I am really going to enjoy it a lot. Thumbs up for the idea of using the loop in the envelopes to create modulation!

[@croay]

super underrated vst, I've been telling people about it but few people gets interested and understand what this thing actually does for some reason

[@wasabifinessed]

I feel you, for me it’s hard for people to understand, even when I show them, but it’s amazing

[@butsukete1806]

Seems like it might work well with RipX for recreating various sounds. I need to try it out.

[@garaughty]

Awesome tones... excellent demo & review Woochia !

[@Woochia]

Thanks a lot :)

[@krysidian]

Wow that's a super cool idea for a synth! Thanks for bringing this one to my attention, combining sampling and wavetables like that is really sweet

[@ImpliedMusic]

great look into a powerful synth. it's become a favorite of mine. super explanations of a deep tool set!

[@Woochia]

Thank you! I think the side effect is that I ended up throwing everything I could record to it, to see what kind of synth it would make. Very fun!

[@jjbing3]

Thank you for this video. I love your sound design course. 🙌🏾

[@wolfgang4468]

Thank you very much for bringing this above the radar!!

[@Woochia]

You're welcome!

[@TerenceKearns]

Excellent review. Subscribed.

[@Rgdonaire_07]

Seems like a similar approach than Synplant2. Both developers are Suedes, I wonder who came first with the concept or if there is any affiliation. Amazing tools! We live in great times!

[@marylewis3311]

Great review thank you.

[@ExplorerOfTheGalaxy]

So are you saying I can use all of my ONESHOTS folder on it and it will give me FULL BLOWN sounds out of each one shot??? Jeez.. I may try it now.

[@DarkTrapStudio]

Ils sont fascinant leur plugins :0 leur panner qui fonctionne comme l'oreille cool ça !

[@Woochia]

Ouais, leur plugins sont assez originaux et ça les rend assez cool :o

[@mooretrumpet]

This can be done with Reason’s Europa synth.

[@lensmanicfeleven1847]

..You have a KZbin "Short" titled "POPULAR WAYS TO CREATE CUSTOM WAVETABLES"...What was the app you were using in that video?....was it iOS ?....Thanks

[@Woochia]

That would be a lot easier if you commented on the said video 🤣 but that's Serum. It's a plugin made by Xfer.

[@Musikkeller-Innsider]

Sounds a bit like the thing the Arturia Synclavier VST does... Interesting video, thx!

[@Woochia]

I just looked it up. I looks like Synclavier is closer to what Serum or Vital does: it converts the audio sample to oscillator waveforms. But every note you play on your keyboard would trigger the same waveform.

[@Satuvirallinen]

Hi, could someone help me with this? I've been testing Tomofon in demo-mode. When I try to play my own sample, for example a guitar pluck, there is still some synth or other sound playin at the same time. So I can't really hear the sample I dragged there. Is there an easy solution to this that I just don't see, or does demo-version make the effect? thank you!

[@Woochia]

Check in the tab where you can modify the wavetables. Check if there are parts in the wavetable that you can delete (like a silence before the beginning of the attack, or even crop a bit of the transient), check if there are dark areas in your wavetable that you could clean, and lastly check the envelope so you can select a more beautiful part of the wavetable for when the notes are sustained.

[@issiewizzie]

Waiting for the sale

[@notsebba]

It’s time ;;)

[@issiewizzie]

@@notsebba yea got it ... for ios and mac.

[@Marcelrocha884]

Wow!!!

[@pongtrometer]

Gr8 overview, superb synth….a sonic adventure…always creates something immersive, then hours go by.

[@trujiebeats8133]

Can it create a proper preset from a chord sample though?

[@Woochia]

I don't think it's made for that. I mean you can, but it will be more experimental

[@scottbirch968]

What's the difference between this and something like Kontakt?

[@Woochia]

Kontakt is a sampler. It will play different samples depending on the note and the velocity you play. So it's similar in the sense that you can have a very expressive and natural sounding instrument. The differences are mainly that with samples, you're kind of limited by the length of your samples if you want to play long notes. But also, kontakt banks are huuuuuge, they often weigh dozens of GB. Tomofon is a synth, so it's all parameter based, and that uses a LOT LESS disk space.

[@jesusquintanilla308]

Is like a advance sampler!?

[@Woochia]

You can consider that like an advance sampler, but it works differently. This doesn't play a sample. It decomposes a sample into several waveforms, and arrange them in several wavetables. It starts with a sample, but the way it works is closer to a synth

[@Chromamancer]

It seems tomofon could only capture segments of samples and misses details such as transients.

[@alexandercaceres3941]

So is Serum better?

[@Woochia]

Very similar in theory, but designed to do very different things. For heavy synth like DNB and dubstep, serum is better. For instruments that sound natural, Tomofon is better. A real advantage serum has is a full effects suite you can modulate with the LFOs and envelopes

[@MrGiulianolareti]

wtf its banger vst

[@francisthecooldownroad342]

Let,s work on Thate. thxs vriend

[@Woochia]

Tahnk oy!u

[@ES60Hz]

Too bad that the sound completely changes when you load it.

[@tobytodelafontena]

But alors, you are french ??!!!

[@Woochia]

Haha, oui indeed :p