A very interesting idea, great price but it's missing too many things to be very useful by itself. For one there's no mixing or attenuation. What's with the CV scaling for the oscillator? Seems like a good way to make sure it will never track in tune. 20 octaves on the VCO? Great, humans can only he...

So are we going back to the dark ages of the 80s when knobless synths ruled the earth? As an engineer I know dumping the controls lets Access get the price lower for Snow but isn't one of the primary attractions of VAs the knobs? Thinking about all the people who complained about the limited knobs o...

hageir wrote:

gcoudert wrote:

hageir wrote:my Emax has the OS on all the diskettes..
what a strange thing to do)

At the time that was the way all personal computers worked. There was only a bootloader on the motherboard, the OS was on the diskettes. Hard drives were extremely expensive and few personal computers had them.

Red Sound EleVAta

laserboy, with that gear list I think you should be telling us, not asking

By itself, the Darkstar does no vocoding at all. You have to install an optional chip (which came suppled with a control overlay). Without that, nada.

The "supersaw" is just a bunch of detuned sawtooths, so any polysynth that has a unison mode with detuning can make that type of sound.

ianjhicks wrote:i just dont know if I like the esq1, learning the sequencer seems like a pain in the a*s

The ESQ-1 sequencer is so simple to operate it's not funny...select a track, hit record, play the keys. It even prompts you to audition your take!

Red Sound EleVAta This would lock up every few minutes. No wonder they went out of business. Kawai K5r I can't believe I traded my white face Odyssey for this piece of c**p. Zoom ST224 My very first sampler. You can trigger loops from the front panel but not over MIDI (only one shots). WTF???? Yamah...

As a former SQ-80 owner my feeling is there is no modern synth with as basic an OS and UI. The problem is modern synths have way more parameters to control, which means lots of menus. Even knobby synths require menus to get at all the parameters. Very few synths since the SQ-80 have offered the same...

Are loop collections worth the money? How do the free loops compared to hte loop collections. The ones at Acid Planet are taken from the collections that Sony sells (the whole idea is to let you demo some loops free and decide you just have to buy the whole set). Loop collections will always be a m...

i know it stands for virtual analog, but, shouldn't they be called synths only? Why is a guitar now called an acoustic guitar? Well, one day someone invented the electric guitar. Same with synthesizers, once digital synthesizers were available people started using the term "analog synthesizer". Lik...

You answered your own question, you just need samples. Where to get them? 1. Get 8 (or more) free WAV loops every week at Acid Planet 2. Google around for other free samples, many other loop makers have free teaser downloads. 3. Buy some loop collections. 4. Make your own samples on the ESX itself (...

PaulRice wrote:I heard it's possible to layer sounds/patches on the yamaha Dx-100.

No, it's not possible.

Korg and Quasimidi didn't use normal MIDI CC for the control method on the MS2000 and Polymorph because of stability issues methinks. If you mean NRPNs , these are encapsulated within CCs and require 3 or more CC messages per parameter . They are used because manufacturers can define up to 16K uniq...