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- Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:24 am
- Forum: Sound Production
- Topic: How exactly do you guys record songs with hardware synths
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5380
Re: How exactly do you guys record songs with hardware synth
I still find Reaper's MIDI timing on external outputs to be a little sloppier than it should be. It's fine with VSTs and so on, but it doesn't seem like sequencing external hardware is a huge priority for the developers.
- Tue Sep 18, 2012 4:48 am
- Forum: Software Synthesizers
- Topic: Windows 8
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3929
Re: Windows 8
I would wait until they finish it before installing, say maybe 12 months after the release date. ;) Yep. There's really no point in being an early adopter when it comes to any OS's. Personally I'm very happy with Windows 7, it's the OS that Vista should have been. Not sure that I really want it wit...
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:52 am
- Forum: General Synthesizers
- Topic: Does the Gaia actually generate it's own waves?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7792
Re: Does the Gaia actually generate it's own waves?
I was going to, before I noticed a fundamental flaw in the premise.Blue Monster 65 wrote:And the first one of you youngsters who makes a crack about the color of my hair is gonna get it!
- Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:09 am
- Forum: General Synthesizers
- Topic: New korg maxitribe. real or not?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 14379
Re: New korg maxitribe. real or not?
Okay, really... we know I'm a vintage guy and etc., but these companies have been turning out workstations by the boatload since 1988. If I wanted a powerful workstation... wouldn't I just use a computer? Is there REALLY money in these things anymore? I mean... I can see the direct benefit of emula...
- Mon Sep 03, 2012 2:20 am
- Forum: General Synthesizers
- Topic: Vermona DRM mk3 Demo video
- Replies: 4
- Views: 969
Re: Vermona DRM mk3 Demo video
Yeah, thanks for making this. I've been interested in the DRM for a while, but it's hard finding demos where people go beyond making boring 4/4 electro beats.
- Wed Aug 29, 2012 3:29 am
- Forum: Samplers
- Topic: First time user: Akai S6000?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2536
Re: First time user: Akai S6000?
Let's all just sit back a moment and reflect on the fact that you can now buy an Akai S6000 for $120. At least, in the States you can. Doesn't seem like many were sold down here - I've been waiting for one to crop up secondhand for ages. Plenty of S5000s, but I really, really want that handy remote ...
- Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:15 am
- Forum: General Synthesizers
- Topic: Digital Subtractive Synthesis
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1304
Re: Digital Subtractive Synthesis
Yes, the D-series actually do the "filtering" by changing the harmonics at the waveform generation stage, so there's no real filter to send the PCM samples through.
I'd be interested to know exactly what algorithm they used for the oscs, it's a quirky way to emulate subtractive.
I'd be interested to know exactly what algorithm they used for the oscs, it's a quirky way to emulate subtractive.
- Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:15 am
- Forum: General Synthesizers
- Topic: Goodbye DSI Mono Evolver
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7582
Re: Goodbye DSI Mono Evolver
Personally, given the choice I'd drop the analogue oscillators on the Evo way before I'd give up the digital ones. In fact, the analogue parts of the Evolvers are the least interesting bits in my opinion.
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:40 am
- Forum: Samplers
- Topic: Question About Akai S3000XL Functionality
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5535
Re: Question About Akai S3000XL Functionality
You asked about what else they are famous for, the timestretching on those early samplers was very characteristic. Ha, one of my favourite samples I ever made was the 0.2 second long "tink" of a glass bottle being tapped, timestretched over and over to be 30 seconds long. It sounded like... well, c...
- Sun Apr 29, 2012 6:08 am
- Forum: Samplers
- Topic: Nice "gritty" sampler for EBM/industrial
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10690
Re: Nice "gritty" sampler for EBM/industrial
Of all my 12-bit samplers, the EPS certainly takes the cake for aggressive, forward-sounding grit and crunch. It's one of the only samplers of that period where they didn't go overboard with antialiasing filters to cover up the low bit/samplerate. Also it has the user-definable input antialiasing fi...
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:34 am
- Forum: General Synthesizers
- Topic: You know what VAs REALLY need?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 704
Re: You know what VAs REALLY need?
Better still, how about a user-locateable insert loop? It's not a great deal more difficult to allow the signal to be broken out at an arbitrary point in the signal chain - once you've got the IO then it's just a programming matter.
- Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:22 am
- Forum: Sound Production
- Topic: Question about usb 3.0
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3288
Re: Question about usb 3.0
MOTU's Windows drivers have always been notoriously awful. Bad enough to cause stuff like recurring BSODs on normally rock-solid machines, random dropouts of service etc.
- Mon Aug 01, 2011 4:26 am
- Forum: Software Synthesizers
- Topic: Cleaning your VST closet...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3347
Re: Cleaning your VST closet...
Given that Soundscape just lumps all your VSTs and VSTis into one single-column drop down menu, I've always had to keep things pretty tidy in there. So I'm always totally ruthless when it comes to plugins. Generally I only keep a plugin if I find myself using it regularly, otherwise it gets the axe ...
- Mon Aug 01, 2011 4:07 am
- Forum: General Synthesizers
- Topic: Fractal Waveform?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4789
Re: Fractal Waveform?
Fractal waveform? A waveform of which harmonic profile when looked at different frequency range/spectral length or time division looks exactly like the whole? We have that: it's called noise... Noise has statistical self-similarity, I think what's being talked about here is waveforms with exact sel...
- Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:17 am
- Forum: Sound Production
- Topic: Vintage digital reverb suggestions? hardware/plugins?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3455
Re: Vintage digital reverb suggestions? hardware/plugins?
Yep, DEP-5 is a winner. Great for those thick-as-treacle 80's 'verbs.
The gated reverbs alone are more than worth the price of admission. Lots of editability too, and the delay algos are fantastic.
The gated reverbs alone are more than worth the price of admission. Lots of editability too, and the delay algos are fantastic.