Anyone owning both would dare to compare Blofeld to Peak?
Blofeld is value and is capable of some great sounds but the Peak smokes it as a synthesizer. The UI / workflow is a completely different ball game.
The only thing the Blofeld has over it is that itās multitimbral.
Edit: Iām probably being a bit harsh here. But I had dramatically opposite experiences of these two synths. I bounced off the Blofeld pretty hard and felt immediately at home with the Peak.
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Yeah, I bought a Blofeld cheap to give it a try a few years ago. Sold it a week later. Itās awful.
I thought that tooā¦ but I keep seeing lots of videos with really great soundsā¦
Iāve got both and as Peak gets mostly used as a pad machine (and not very crazy one at that), Iām strongly considering letting Peak go. The UI isnāt great, admittedly, but the sound is definitely there. But it all comes down to what one would use it for (and how).
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I have peak and blofeld and they both have a place in my setup. The peak is amazing, great ui and overall package. But if the blofeld nails a sweetspot, it sounds really good. Reaaaaly good.
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Yeah, I love what Cygnus does with it, for example. I just struggled to make friends with the one I had.
Over the years had and still have many synths. I even owned Blofeld a few times(maybe didn t dig deep enoughā¦who knows). Thing is that from some demos I keep seeing, it sounds so much ābetterā, somehow more interesting than say Peak, Hydrasynth and many others. More so, in the mix, let s say Virus is hard to fit in, and it seems Blofeld it does that too well.
What s stopping me from buying again is the fact that always when having it it seemed somehow hard to program and didn t gel with it s envelopes and overall characterā¦ but now hearing all these youtube videos makes me wonderā¦
I dont program it on the synth. I use monstrumfeld which to me is awesome
Perhaps Blofeld could be discussed in depth in its own thread?
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the Librarianā¦
I wish it had dates for when the presets people make get uploaded [unless Iām too dumb to notice its already there]
but there seems to be two new ones that sound REALLY good.
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I traded my OT for a Peak last sunday. I am instantly enamored with it. So far Iāve only programmed one patch, a lot of the presets are not in my wheelhouse but the ones that I like are SOOOOOOOOOOO good. Iāve got a lot of this thread to dig through still but Iām excited to keep at it.
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Iām going to try some of the 1000 free components patches. When I get round to hooking up my computerā¦
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Thereās some great stuff amidst those banks in components!
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Yeah dates would be nice. Do you recall the names of the new two?
Sort by latest and itās the top two. Top is a dude, black and white face shot. Second it two guys in suits and sunnies.
Away from my computer 
later: at computerā¦these two
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Ah thanks cool. The last interesting (to me, at least) patches in there were the Legowelt ones, and I havenāt really thought to check back since then. I will give these new ones a try! Itās very cool that novation keeps adding new banks for free - they canāt get much additional promotional value out of all of these new onesā¦
Yeah, I donāt recognise these, must be fairly recent!
I wasnāt really down with Legowelts. But really like the ones from Lightbath.
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