Classic lead sound? Huh? You realize that's a pad sound, right? There are no leads in either of those clips. The pad sound is mostly due to the reverb. It's completely smothered in a really lush reverb with long decay. Definitely doesn't sound like a DX7 to me.

I read somewhere that the PerFOURmer MKI doesn't receive midi velocity data, (possibly aftertouch too). Quite an important feature for most people. Neither does the Juno-60. No midi at all and the keyboard is not velocity sensitive. It's simply a gate signal. Also, no portamento! The Juno-60 makes ...

Definitely not stock. The vast majority of them sold on ebay do not have the 8 out expansion board. This guy is j**k you around.

Also, you should know that the 8-bit limitations of the oscillators on the Shruthi make it somewhat more low-fi. This is usually a good thing IMO (it gives it some subtle grit), but sometimes it can be hard to get a perfect, pristine sound out of the oscillators at their extremes. For example, there...

The guys at the shop are idiots. You won't hurt the synth by using a mono to stereo adapter and plugging headphones into the line out. Though, it will sound pretty crappy without a headphone amp. I would recommend getting one of those cheap little battery powered headphone amps to boost the signal a...

Aphex and BBE work differently . BBE uses time delay to compensate for phase shifts in the signal chain, splitting the sound into two bands and adjusting the delay between then to bring out the upper harmonics that were obscured by phase shifts. Haha! Is BBE still using that old bullshit line to se...

I used to own a Boss RC-20xl and loved it but traded it for a Line 6 DL-4 becasue I thought I could do with the shorter loop time and I wanted the extra delay and mangling features. Turns out I was wrong. I do really love the DL4 too, but if I had to do it over again I'd take the Boss back. I alread...

Hmmm, it looks like there are few enough communication signals between the boards that you could probably put the connections on a big rotary switch. Should work, but I would think it would be more fun to have multiple Shruthi's.

Ugh. Can we please draw a line between "timbre" and "sound quality?" They are not one-in-the-same. No matter what is happening with compression routines, etc. it is evident what the MiniBrute does with even crappy YouTube videos. If you're an audiophile who needs purity and clarity and zero noise a...

For the cheapest option, your best bet is to hit up a thrift store and try to find a cheapo keyboard with midi output. There were thousands of cheapo consumer keyboards made all throughout the late 80s and 90s with midi capability, and you can often pick one up for less than $20.

Lol. It looks like they went to Goodwill, grabbed a random $5 toy keyboard, and spray-painted it silver.

It sounds like you are probably more interested in a workstation than synthesizer.

madtheory wrote: And it's one sound that an impulse can capture with 100% accuracy.

Absolute nonsense. It does a decently good job, but it's far from a 100% accurate reproduction.

That's really weird. Have the prices of the sp404 gone up as well, or just the sp555?

DIVA by a longshot. There is no contest. I love plenty of other VA's. They are great in their own ways, but if we are talking sheer analog authenticity, there is no doubt that the technology used in DIVA is the future. It is the only softsynth I've ever played that really sounds like analog circuits.