Yes, you needed a special test card. Don't attempt to run these tests without one. Whatever you do, *don't* do what I did, and on the first day of bringing my Wavestation home from central London, enter test mode and explore what was there, and think "I wonder what the D-IN button does?", because if...

The Synth used on the track Human Racing played by the Legendary Reg Webb was a Yamaha CS80 and the drums were a Yamaha Mixer with w built in preset drum machine, he pushed two buttons together of different drum rhythms in order to generate the drum pattern. I wonder if it was this one? EM-90. Look...

I would like to correct anyone saying Nik Kershaw used a sampler for the Bass on Don Quixote, he did not, he used a DX7 bass 1 preset. (Fact) Hey, welcome back! I'm genuinely interested in where this is coming from, as adding the word "fact" does not make it so. It's possible that knowing some of t...

Where did you get the "not ZenCore" thing? Every review I've seen says it's all ZenCore stuff..? (Alex Ball explicitly says it, and his was sponsored by Roland - CDM.lnk, which is pretty dependable, etc) "These all are derived from Zen-Core stuff – the 60 notes of polyphony and the price should tell...

Jump was an OB-X or OB-Xa by all accounts - although, being a largely detuned sawtooth brass stab with the filter quite open, it's a simple synth sound that more or less *any* synth, particularly an analog poly, can do to varying degrees of exactitude to the original recording. I haven't seen much o...

The solo on “I Want To Break Free” (Queen) was perplexing to me, back in the day. I mean, that last slide down is *clearly* a synthesiser, and yet it also feels like a guitar solo. It’s really nicely done…

ppg_wavecomputer wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 19, 2023 10:26 am

Not sure how accurate the E&MM article is

You could probably say that about most of them...

From reviews at the time: The factory settings are hardly dazzling examples of how the Opera performs. The Italians have opted for thin, reedy sounds, and gone overboard with the modulating LFO. The benefits of pulse width mod have largely been ignored and if you write this into the patches, the Sie...

I would not. Too much time, cost and hassle for something that really isn't worth the trouble when it's fixed.

If it was a Jupiter 8, I mean, yes, but a low end Siel? Skip that, imo. ymmv

gstoelen wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:20 pm

A year later

Yeah - I'd given up waiting for a "thank you"...

meener777 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:28 am

Nice!

Check out this old interview about their studio from that time period: Not sure why you'd read it from an old web archived obscure site when you could go to *this* awesome* archive site where this is archived properly - and also check out the other SAW, and Harding/Curnow articles too: http://www.m...

The JD-08 boutique is quite different from an actual JD-800. As this reviewer says "Despite Roland's claims, it's not a JD-800". I do love a good Gordon synth review! That's interesting about many of the waveforms having the wrong octave pitches... poor attention to detail? Or a necessary artifact ...

But I seriously doubt that the Moog One cannot sound like a MiniMoog -- each being from the same manufacturer, analog, similar filters available, 3 oscillators per voice. It probably can, but not a *vintage* Minimoog. After all, Moog made the Voyager to be a modern Minimoog, and a lot of people did...