Yea, but not because the pedals suck (though I will say the demo above of the HG let me know it wouldn't be for me - the nodal resonances bothered me) - but because the reverb racks I use let you get realism or ambient washes, plate sounds as well as rooms, and then deep space sustains as well as ....

I'm not sure how a synth would sound through the holy grail, as I've only heard guitars through them in online demos. I like them although I have to admit that I tend to go for weird shimmery washes rather than realistic reverbs. The Cathedral appeals a bit more to me than the Holy Grails because o...

+1 on the Wedge. And yeah, it's not hard to pick one up for nothing - I got mine for about $30 as well. @Aeon: a little off topic (since it sounds a bit out of the OP's price point) but if you want big but aren't necessarily going for "so realistic you'd think you were in Westminsiter Abbey" would y...

Best is a majorly loaded term here. Too many ways to look at it. Best sounding. Opinions on best in sound are like arseholes: everyone has one. There are some synths that had me at hello and never let go: The Evolver, the Voyager and the Buchla 200e have each affected me in that way. Best in spec: I...

I wanted to comment on some of the posts that feel the MEK requires a lot of menu diving. Of any of the current non-VA synths out there, my feeling is the only more direct programmer out there is the Voyager. The whole "push a button to get to ocs 1/2/3/4" bit isn't any different than, for example, ...

I bonded with the Evolver sound pretty quickly. I disagree that it can only sound thin/digital. It can but you just have to learn what parameters don't do it for you. I also have more than one template preset: a standard detuned sawtooth with an piano-esque envelope, a detuned sawtooth drone and an ...

Try out an Electro Harmonix Voice Box.

My fuzzy recollection is the first Indigo was intended as a limited release. Don't know if the early ones were numbered. They saw a genuine demand and made it part of the lineup.

The Redbacks were strictly limited and numbered.

Thinking about making the leap from an EVO to an MEK or PEK. Aside from the obvious concerns of cost/size and difference in functions, I am concerned about this: Is the PEK in multi-timbral (combo?) mode easy/fun/intuitive? I'm pretty comfortable in running two sequences/drones side by side on my EV...

This is theoretical and expensive:

Bass fitted with hex/midi pickup => MIDI conversion box (Roland GI20?) => MPC1000 w/ JJ OS2 XL => module

Mind you, that's probably a couple of thousand Euros for something hard to set up and inaccurate and buggy.

Another possibility is an old Yamaha QY 10/20/70.
A little fiddly but they are small, cheap (I've seen them for $40) and you can use one to sequence multiple synths.

How close to a real bass guitar do you need? How "live" sounding are your bass lines? ie, can you do with rhythmic patterns or do you want the bass lines to go all over the place? If you want to "replace" a bassist, go with a keyboard workstation w/ a built in sequencer. In the mix, some of them do ...

I am bored at work at the mo! ha poly voyager/blofeld with MPC & kaoss pad etc............. this can do the lot! well whatever you suggest it can do (In my head! ha) http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/7276/mysynthxv6.jpg :wink: If it ran on batteries, I'd be so ready to buy one! Seriously, I have the...

I'm in the process of setting up a DrumKat EZ to trigger my MPC1000. It's pretty easy and works well. I haven't tried layering sounds yet or setting the hi-hat "chik" to cut off the hi-hat "open" sample.

Any decent drum module with a MIDI out should do it as well.

I haven't used a Vintage Pro but if the organs on the Composer and Sounds of the ZR roms are any indication, then I would expect them to be top notch. The World Rom is almost worth the money. I had a case of the stupids last year and bought one for my MP-7. I would say that plus the drums on the Vin...