I'm running a MOTU MIDI express 8x8 USB with WIN XP SP2. Its worked flawlessly for 1.5 years.

Beware of a little driver hunting though...

JP-80x0 has the best, juiciest, filter of all the VAs. I wouldn't say its "the king" of VAs though. I would give that to the Virus, if forced.

A couple of points I want to throw in the mix... About the much discussed and lampooned presets, I actually like most of the presets. Keep in mind the Eric Persing and his team did not always to try recreate real instruments, for instance, Glass Voices 1 and 2, which are perhaps some of the best pad...

My Jp-8000 came pretty close but that was made 5 years after that song was released. Therefore your hope of replicating the sound has been eternally crushed. You must now venture through the labyrinth, defeat the Synth King by the 13th hour, and retrieve the exact synth that was used before you can...

The Roland cards (PN-D50 01 through 04) are the best. All I have to say is ;


STAR-TREK VOICES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Actually, I just got a PG-1000 for my D-550; so I'm back in magical D-50 land.

http://www.vintagesynth.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=29271&highlight=synth Anyway, I don't understand flat out _favorites_, as in, "better than anything else out there", in art. Every synth, like all things in art, has its own niche and charm, and no synth contains them all (otherwise the first statem...

One reason to pursue imitative synthesis is that though no one is going to mistake it for the real thing you can sometimes come up with a new class of usable sounds[...] [...] Of course, many of the amazing things Tomita, Wendy Carlos, and Larry Fast did used imitative synthesis as a starting point...

3. choir This is easy. Take at least two BP filters in parallel and use square waves and add noise on top of that. Add chorus to taste. You have to seperate the filters' freqs appropriately, as well as the resonance to get the correct formant. Each vowel formant has a different seperation. The reso...

difficult sounds in subtractive synthesis(VA and real analog) it's my list. 1. metallic brass I'm not sure I know what this is... 2. airy pad Yeah, somewhat difficult. It is an excercise in layering...basically take any pad, remove the high freqs, and add a complex non-harmonic noisy sound with a l...

portland wrote:

i_watch_stars wrote:A lot of dark ambient doesn't have any synth sounds....

The effect unit is what is important.

Yes, absolutely true.

A lot of dark ambient doesn't have any synth sounds....

Talk about drifting off the original topic, which was to build several Microkorgs into a rack. Is a Radias, ugly as it is, functionally equivalent to a few stacked MKs/MS2000s? Sound the same? Some posts say they sound different. Joking aside, no, the RADIAS isn't exactly equivalent to four MS2000s...

The RADIAS is basically a type of synth that takes the quanitity of features approach, vs the quality of raw sound. It is the anti-minimoog. totally disagree. fantastic sounding synthesizer. Errm...I never said it didn't sound good, it just arrives at a good sound from a different way. If it didn't...

All of the sudden this is an drum machine vs anti-drum machine thread, lol. To the original poster, yes, it is hard to pull off. Especially when the drums are the centerpeice of the track, or they are alone, etc. I can come pretty close with my XV-5080 with the SRV Drum board in, plus random quantiz...

everyone's entitled to their opinion... personally I prefer the sound of my Nord Lead 3 over the Radias, even dry without any outboard processing. and that's one thing I have noticed about the Radias, it doesn't work as well with additional effects compared to the Lead 3, Waldorf Bloefeld or my rec...