I recently donated to the site to be able to download the CZ-10xV (VSTi-Plugin for PC) and all the other downloads, but I never received a response. I am able to login, but I still see a donate button instead of a download button (even after donating). When I tried to email the contact address, whi...

Totally off-topic. I live in College Station, TX, the home of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library. Pres. Bush the senior has a cute little apartment attached to the Library complex (which I've heard is decorated to look EXACTLY like his handful of other such apartments around the country so th...

griffin avid wrote:Thanks!

Thank you! I'll load those samples up tonight. Maybe see if I can't do a little Mopho demo myself.

http://www.fdiskc.com/syn/namm/2009/.slide_Korg_MicroKorgXL-Colors.jpg More: http://www.fdiskc.com/syn/namm/2009/index.html Ooooh! They come in colors! While I was cruising this thread and saw the very large MK XL picture I was still kinda stumped to that plastic lip all around it. Now I understand...

It is awesome to be able to get a visualization for how these guys actually went about making music at that time. I wish there was more video of it as well as other electro artists from that period up to '90s. I have only made electro music since the VST age I really don't have a firm grasp on exact...

I've spent a little bit of time with mine, mostly jogging through the presets and beginning to reprogram some of the sounds I had in the Source and other analogs. I'm still somewhat amazed by it. PROS - It's got the sound. I dialed up an awesome double saws lead that is practically identical to the ...

I have kept my eye out for several years for a used ESQ-M or a Kawai K3M because I'm really intrigued by the combination of CEM's and lo-fi digital samples but I've never found one when I've got the money. I'll have to keep looking.

I still think we're liable to see an LP rack or desktop module (ala Mopho) sooner than we're likely to see a new polyphonic synth from Moog. I think if it doesn't outright kill the company that it would seriously hinder what the company could do R&D-wise for years to come. Then again, I can't think ...

The Alpha Juno is very easy to program and with the data wheel you can have some real-time manipulation. It's like the Source. People talked it down because it wasn't 100% knobby. There are certainly degrees of difficulty among non-knobby preset synths, and these aren't really that difficult.

Neither are really worth much these days. I don't really know why since both are excellent synths. Keep them both if you can.

Megawatt kicks a*s. Within a week his old Mopho was here and after cruising the presets I think I've got a good modern monosynth now to work with. Real happy like. Stand up guy, he is.

Interesting writeup, Red. I just hope that when the '90s come back, they'll skip over the Crash Test Dummies. #-o There are certainly overused '90s musical cliches too. The filtered hip-hop drum loop in pop music, telephone-filtered vocals, etc. Autotune à la Cher (Believe)... That was the touchsto...

cornutt wrote:Interesting writeup, Red. I just hope that when the '90s come back, they'll skip over the Crash Test Dummies.

There are certainly overused '90s musical cliches too. The filtered hip-hop drum loop in pop music, telephone-filtered vocals, etc.

If you look on the inside of the album sleeve there is a bandroom photo of the band jamming and Chris Martin is sitting behind a CS-80. So maybe that's what he's using? I've seen them onstage with a Voyager but I think the synth playing comes from offstage live.

Wow! There's a lot to wade through here and answer to. So I'll get to crackin'! The drum machine of the '80s could probably be spread out to two halves of the decade. The first half would have to be the Linndrum. And if not that actual synth, I'd say the concept behind the Linndrum that spread out t...