Either get an EPS owner to make you a boot disk or buy Syntaur's starter kit ($35, well worth it as you also get the manual)

All MPCs have 96ppqn resolution, I think that is the same as the Electribes.

It's not a crime to use a modular for basic synth sounds. After all, that's how the basic sounds got developed in the first place. Crazy modulations are easy, making useful musical sounds is a lot harder. If I was choosing between Arturia's Mini and Modular I would take the Modular, it comes with pl...

Stomper wrote:would one of you mind telling me why did you sold it?.

I needed to buy a bass guitar for a band I had just joined.

It can be aggressive but not overly so. Somewhere between a Roland and a Moog sound. As cl516 mentioned, no PWM which is unfortunate. The VCA has a "thru" mode so you can use it for creating endless drones without having to actually play any notes. The more complex sounds come from a couple of featu...

I owned a Perfourmer, what would you like to know about it? I dont know too much about synthesis but unlike other synths this one looks like a very basic and simple one Yes, each of the four synths is extremely basic and easy to learn, but you can combine them in interesting ways to do more complex ...

It's always best to have only one clock source rather than let another unit "forward" it. Use THRUs rather than OUTS.

Looks like they took their existing controllers and chopped them into smaller pieces. Too bad they didn't put the XY pad on the unit with the knobs and sliders

My SQ-80 had the motherboard fried once during a lightning storm. It was plugged into the wall but not turned on.

The symptom was, eh, it wouldn't power up

Not powering on could be as simple as a blown fuse...but its the biggest crapshoot of all to a buyer.

Right, according to the schematic the clock should act as a 50% width gate. OK, not as nice as a variable width gate but WTF it's free. Might need buffering? Also if you ANDed the clock and gate, you'd get no gate pulse when the step is off. Seems like a simple mod.

I've owned PAiA's 9700 modular (not the Fatman) as well as a dotcom system. The PAiA VCOs and filters sound much thinner and raspier. Out of the box Fatman has no LFO, no square waves or noise, filter will not self-oscillate and the MIDI response is limited to 4 octaves (C1-C5??). That's not to knoc...

Is there really no magazine's like that over here(North America)? I haven't gone into book stores in ages. There used to be , there's a few computer-oriented DIY mags still around. Many PAiA products were first written up as projects in mags like Radio Electronics , you got the full schematic and p...

MrHope wrote:I'm already pretty much a preset user for synth sounds I admit.

Stand tall and hold your head up! There's no reason not to use presets if you like the sound. Plenty of hit records have been made with presets.

paia requires 18V and not 15V like other fracks, but you can make paia run on 15V The 9700 does have an unusual power setup. The main supply (part of the MIDI-CV module) is unregulated +/-18VDC. Then there are regulators to derive +/-15VDC on each module. Most other makers use regulated +/-15VDC su...

I've owned three 9700 systems over the years (don't ask why I keep selling one and then buying another :? ). It has been the cheapest modular system you could buy since 2000, though most of the savings are because it's a kit. The final product has a very flexible MIDI-C/V converter and very cool EGs...