Am I done?

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noisewreck said:
I don't think that's a deficiency in the synths. It's a deficiency in most synthesists. Most of the end users don't go much beyond the presets. To me, most of the fun with synths is pushing and prodding them in directions that presets don't even hint at.
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I'd agree. I've never fully explored the JV1010 or the MVS-1, I just use the presets on those. Same with the Triton for the most part, but in all those cases it's because I bought them for specific purposes (Mellotron, Orchestral sounds, Electric piano etc) so editing them wasn't uppermost in my mind.

That said, all my favourite sounds on the Cheetah MS6 were my own design.
And then we have the Waldorf synthesizers. These remove all temptation to just use the presets because the presets are crap. Ironically I've spent much of my time on Waldorf MicroWave trying to replicate some of the presets from the MVS-1 or the PPG Wave softsynth :D

Talking of the MicroWave or PPG, that is one thing which is very difficult to replace. If you want those freaky wavetable sweeps, you'll have to have a machine or a softsynth that uses wavetable scanning. No amount of effort is going to help you replicate them on something else...
 
Go for an analog modular synth now. There's plenty of makers these days. With a modular you can laugh at all your other synths with their preset routings and start making the sounds you could only dream about.

Of course then you'll find your new obsession will be modules. And that's fine, there's nothing wrong with continually expanding a synth with unlimited potential.
 
Somnium7 said:
Go for an analog modular synth now. There's plenty of makers these days. With a modular you can laugh at all your other synths with their preset routings and start making the sounds you could only dream about.
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Man, I just cant get into modular synths. Whats wrong with me? :( I never liked em, they just dont appeal to me. I like presets, I just need thousands of them. I guess its my orchestral background, I try to experiment with other sounds and I always go back to the orchestral-ish sound set every time. :o
 
Go play a Voyager and get back to us. :D

7 banks of 128 presets including 128 blank patches. Edit via computer or the Voyager with the editing software.

If the Voyager seems a bit much the Little Phatty is about $1300US and has pretty kewl analog/digital control technology.

Either way there's no mistaking it's a Moog. :cool:
 
DavidK said:
Man, I just cant get into modular synths. Whats wrong with me? :( I never liked em, they just dont appeal to me. I like presets, I just need thousands of them. I guess its my orchestral background, I try to experiment with other sounds and I always go back to the orchestral-ish sound set every time. :o
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Ok I see. Here's a suggestion, get yourself a decent sampler (I prefer hardware) and then start collecting the plethora of finely crafted orchestral sample libraries out there. Here again you get a virtually limitless amount of flexibility and thousands of sounds but instead of buying a new hardware instrument you are investing in the sounds alone. Saves alot of space too.
 
What about ...?

... the Alesis Andromeda - it's a pure analogue synth but v expensive. If you're looking for unique analogue sound then this is the beast you need to track down. Other suggestion is the Roland V-Synth GT.
 
http://www.synthmuseum.com/arp/arp250001a.jpg

Berklee had one of these beasts... the graphic eq LOOKING sliders where actually patch points on an XY axis.
None of those "cumbersome" cables found on the 2600....or that stuff Keith Emerson used!!
Now this puppy could almost speak better than a three year old child. :cool:
 
Soundmind?? said:
No collection is complete until one of every kind is acquired! :cool: :D
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I think you are right. :cool: I took my microX back and got an X50 because I was having issues with the microX. X50 kicks ass, but I am still drawn to the online sites to see what is next. :D One more wont hurt. :cool:
 
When is enough enough?

Never...when you're OCD and I am pretty sure Monty, David and I all fall in that category..

Sick I tell ya!

I have a B3 parked at a friends house I haven't played in 5 years..

Still have my Sh-3 from 73 and an elka string ensemble that hasn't fired up in 20 years :eek:

And then there are the soft synths I can't even tell ya what I have cause I'd have to kill ya :eek:

But I digress...

I have 4 different 88 controlers, a dx-7 but am Jonesing on the CME UF8..
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next month they are coming out with a module that inserts into it that sounds like it will play Vsti's :eek: the ASX http://www.cme-pro.com/products-list/product-asx.html

..must have ...must have

2 hands can only play soo much but must have..sick I tell ya :confused:
 
It looks to me like their own proprietary format. Probably compiled into the native format of the DSP chip, whatever it is. I don't see any chips on the board that look remotely like a high-end general-purpose CPU, and if there was one built into the synth itself you wouldn't need the expansion board.

If they release an SDK people might port their VSTi plugins, but I do not believe they will work otherwise. There's always Receptor, though.

Either way, I'd prefer one of these things over a PC-based softsynth...
 
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