In around the mid 1980s the SH101 was £199 - the Casio CZ101 and Yamaha DX100 were £350, the Yamaha DX7 was £1200, the Ensoinq ESQ1 was about £1400 That's really bizarre, because in the USA the SH-101, CZ-101 and DX100 were all the same list price: $500. The DX7 was somewhere around $2000 but the E...

Pressing Store is always a good choice for saving things

BTW, if you look at p.38 of the Quick Start manual (not the Feature Reference) it explains the process.

Start with all oscillators off and a self-resonating filter with key tracking to 100%, than add portamento/glide to taste. That should sound like a theremin. Then experiment with modulating the filter with an A-D envelope to create a "chiff", so the pitch starts higher and rapidly drops. Also if you...

You've got some research ahead of you. Many modern MIDI controllers (with and without keys) can send patch change messages, sometimes including the bank LSB and MSB. The problem is how many patch change msgs can be stored. You will need to read lots of manuals online to see what each controller can ...

Do you have the patch memory documentation for the JV? You need to be able to select banks (each has 128 patches) and no two mfrs assign the bank numbers the same.

Without sitting down and listening to it, hard to say. If it's constant regardless of the volume control setting, that's different than going up and down with the volume control or going up and down with the expression pedal. The simplest case is one or more bad capacitors but in older organs that c...

There are no "drum kits" in the sense of modern gear. Are you saying that SQ8L doesn't have the drum waves? They are the last five in the wave list. There's not many as I recall, a kick and a Simmons-ish waveform from the ESQ-1 waveROM (used in the patch K+SIMS) and five more sampled drums in the SQ...

I'm retired on a reduced income and willing to wait two weeks for my copy

Spitfire has just released an entry level orchestral library with 35 instruments and 47 articualtions, for £49/£$49/€49. It is self contained, not a Kontakt library. Also apparently you can get it for free just by filling out a questionnaire!! Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=1v-...

Post a link here to the recording (YouTube, Soundcloud, etc.) so we can hear it.

Just out from Reason Studios (formerly Proplellerheads) is Reason 11.3 . The big news is the Reason rack plugin, already available in VST3 and AU formats is now offered in AAX for Pro Tools. It's a free update for existing Reason 11 owners. There is also a sale until May 31, 2020 with $100 off on Re...

I first encountered skeumorphism when I tried Reason 15 years ago. It was easy to use for me since it looked like hardware I was familiar with...the mixer looked like a Mackie, the smaller FX units looked like the Boss half-rack processors, the backside had CV connections, etc. Over the years I deci...

Get the user manual here According to p.27, a system initialization will clear all data to the factory state EXCEPT the factory soundsets. For that you need the appropriate Demonstration Disk. This page still has active links to disk images. You will of course need a Windows based floppy drive to cr...

so did YOU go Digital or simply get out of music altogether ? My first synths were digital because I got them in the late 80s. Before that all I had was an old Lowrey organ. Until I got out of hardware altogether, a digital workstation was always my master keyboard, a primary sound source and until...

That's essentially what the Neko was, but with keys. The computer components are pretty obvious. There's a DVD drive underneath the wheels. Price started at $5500...in 2005!!!! That would have bought you a Triton, Motif and Fantom plus maybe some change left over. Sound On Sound Review from 2005 htt...