In fact it’s kinda glorious in it’s UI implementation and work flow. There’s also no scene mode in NS2 which is one of bm3’s many great features for lightening fast idea sketching (you can sketch a full track in literally minutes). Maybe more time with it will reveal other elements but I’m not yet convinced. All the demo songs I have heard built solely with obsidian sound like elevator electronic dance library music. This upped the ante a little and in tandem with the xy pad yielded some more pleasing sounds but nothing that would make this a go to synth for me above all the many others. So I began tweaking lfos, envelopes and oscillators to tease some more out of them. I auditioned all of the presets and nothing stood out to me. But if it contains a sound palette that doesn’t inspire you to use it, then none of that even matters. It’s well built, solid, clean, pretty and has low cpu.
If you want phatness and a unique inspiring palette though, for me the sounds would need replacing later with sunrizer, poison, noir, Magellan, isymphonic, synthmaster one, d1, aparillo etc. More of a sound sketch tool for generic dance sounds to help sketch out your ideas. The synth is another generic sounding analogue synth. The software has nice built in fx, but no proper AU FX automation, no au fx per pad, no timestretch, no audio tracks (incoming and will no doubt kill bm3s, unless serious overhauling is done), a very simple sample play back mechanism in the form of slate, but no genuine fully fledged sampler, let alone the bm3 beast, a fun synth in the form of obsidian, but nothing that moves the needle. People are wowed by the UI and rock solid stability ie the wrapper. So it then dawned on me, could this possibly be another case of emperor’s new clothes. I am a relatively seasoned producer from the desktop world of Cubase, logic and maschine, and have a good knowledge base. ‘What was I not seeing that everyone else was?’ I spent a couple of days. I was looking forward to NS2 but then after purchasing, found myself scratching my head. Nanostudio 2 has been released and it’s an excellent app by a Marvel superhero of a developer, however, through a slew of limitations, it has now ironically revealed how advanced BM3 actually is.
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