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- Thu Dec 04, 2008 10:08 am
- Forum: General Synthesizers
- Topic: Say you were in a plan crash...
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2495
Re: Say you were in a plan crash...
Hmmm, I would hope the box had some condoms in it. 

- Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:53 am
- Forum: General Synthesizers
- Topic: oddball synths
- Replies: 69
- Views: 6423
Re: oddball synths
I nominate Casio for their CZ series of synthesizers. I really wish Casio would make another synthesizer, they certainly have the know-how and the capital to pull it off. Another screwball to me was the Yamaha TX16W. Weird little sampler, it's amazing how many things they got right, yet they made su...
- Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:20 am
- Forum: Samplers
- Topic: Korg DSS-1: overkill?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2253
Re: Korg DSS-1: overkill?
The DSS-1 is a monster. I never could understand why they go for so little money when they outclass a lot of analog poly-synthesizers. Two oscillators per voice, awesome filters, quite a bit of modulation abilities, and a really nice digital delay effects unit to boot. Editing is fairly easy as well...
- Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:49 am
- Forum: Samplers
- Topic: Sniffing on a Roland S550. Experiences?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8780
Re: Sniffing on a Roland S550. Experiences?
Oh, and for the record, the Roland S-550 does have a microphone preamp. I've never used it though, I just sample line level sources. The machines are great by the way, I especially like the filters. It has a lot of great features that are fairly easy to use if you take the time to read the manual. T...
- Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:19 am
- Forum: HELP!
- Topic: moog the source
- Replies: 5
- Views: 501
Re: moog the source
Just make your own patches. You'll learn a lot more by messing around with this machine than you ever will by loading in the factory presets. Sadly, the Source offers the least user friendly interface of all the Moog synthesizers. However, it has the sound to live up to the name, and the interface i...
- Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:02 am
- Forum: Sound Production
- Topic: Broken Horn/Tweet on my Roland KC-500
- Replies: 1
- Views: 498
Parts Express has really good service and a good range of parts. Here is their page on 2" horn drivers: http://www.partsexpress.com/webpage.cfm?WebPage_ID=3&Cat_ID=49&ObjectGroup_ID=836&sm=1&so=1 Replacing the blown driver should be as easy as opening the cabinet, taking off the wires, replacing the...
- Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:14 am
- Forum: HELP!
- Topic: Best Synthesizers '70s-'80s in Reliability Terms
- Replies: 7
- Views: 529
- Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:31 am
- Forum: Buyer's Guide
- Topic: Back from the dead!! Welcome to the BUYER'S GUIDE!!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 21702
- Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:03 am
- Forum: Sound Production
- Topic: Being louder than a guitarist
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1023
Simple, just take the fuse out of the back of their amplifier and replace it with another one of about half the current rating. That way when they play loud for long periods of time. Pop goes the amplifier. Either that or pass the guy running your front-of-house a twenty to screw up their solos. I h...
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:08 am
- Forum: General Synthesizers
- Topic: Filter pole question
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2486
- Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:28 pm
- Forum: General Synthesizers
- Topic: Filter pole question
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2486
That sounds right - pole from complex analysis - not that I know a whole lot about filter implementation, but if you write the transfer function of a filter down, it's of the form p(z)/q(z), (p,q polynomials taking complex arguments z) and the 'poles' are the zeros of the q function - the higher or...
- Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:32 am
- Forum: General Synthesizers
- Topic: Worst Korg synth EVER!
- Replies: 75
- Views: 7471
My vote for the worst Korg synthesizer is the Polysix. Don't get me wrong, they sound great, and they have a lot of good features. The problem is that the stupid batteries have a tendency to leak all over the motherboard and jam up the works. It's a real mess figuring out which traces are shot, and ...
- Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:22 am
- Forum: General Synthesizers
- Topic: What turned you on to electronic/synth music?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 10805
The synthesizer bug bit me when I was rummaging through my mom's box of old LPs and happened to find Emerson Lake and Palmer (their first album) and Pictures at an Exhibition. I spun up the former, not expecting very much, and was pleasantly shocked by how much this album rocked. Then when they fina...
- Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:11 am
- Forum: General Synthesizers
- Topic: What was the first synth you ever bought?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1817
- Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:03 am
- Forum: Sound Production
- Topic: Should you turn off your wireless adapter while recording?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 637
I shouldn't think it would cause any problems because the operating frequencies are so different. Even with 192 kHz recording, most wireless cards work at 2.4 GHz or a similarly high frequency and they should not interfere with each other. Cell phones work on around 900 MHz, and those haven't caused...