The SH-32 has an arpeggiator that can be programmed with your own patterns, making it effectively a simple sequencer. This is how all the drum patterns are created. During the few months I owned mine I found programming arpeggios difficult (typical Roland interface confusion, no LCD so no grid), it'...

In the Metallica doc Some Kind of Monster.....they interviewed a composer who scored a string arrangment on the BLACK ALBUM. In the DVD he plays some string keyboard for a few seconds, I jumped up screaming holy s**t that sounds wonderfully. Michael Kamen , who worked with Pink Floyd, Queen, Eric C...

Bitexion wrote:No analog oscillator ever came with a softsync input. Only hardsync. Soft sync must be created using other tricks.

PAiA's 9720 VCO has soft sync but not hard sync. I'm not sure how it's implemented.

The Strummer was a arpeggiator-like box designed to emulate guitar strumming (doh). It was a commercial failure, never used one so I don't know how well it worked. Nowadays there are workstation arpeggiators that can do this sort of thing, but in the late 80s it was like science fiction. I can't rea...

Rock was around in the early 80s for 2-3 years. They made a line of compact amps (I think their most powerful was a mere 80 watts), many could be battery powered.

That one is probably a 15 watter based on the power draw of 30 watts. $50 would be an OK price, it's not worth much more than that.

Tyler2000 is correct, you can assign a note number (and MIDI channel!) to each pad but you cannot program note duration which is extremely short. It will work if you use patches with long decays and releases but that's about it. Velocity is fixed at 64 (pretty low) for unaccented notes, you can prog...

Dr. Sound wrote:You have seen the future, and it looks like the 80s:

Wow, they'll still be using floppy disks in the 31st century!

JUGEL wrote:Instead of nitpicking .. I'll keep it really simple. Why can't a Nord lead sound like my Jen?

Why didn't my Alpha Juno sound like my Odyssey? Why didn't my FB01 sound like my ESQ-1? Why didn't my SH-101 sound like my CZ-101? Why didn't my wife sound like my sister?

What the heck is futuristic anyway? When I was a kid we were told we'd all have nuclear reactors in our homes, personal helicopters and jet packs so we wouldn't need cars anymore, vacations on the moon and robotic servants. They forgot to predict water and air pollution, global warming, terrorism, W...

You need an infinite number of samples to capture every possible nuance of an instrument. True. On the other hand, you're assuming that the human ear is capable of distinguishing infinite nuances, which I'm fairly sure it's not. And you're assuming that the sound of the Clavinet will be reproduced ...

A sampled anything aint the same as the real thing, what else is new? Why? I mean, assuming you can sample something to perfect fidelity [or as perfect as the human ear can hear], what difference would it make? You need an infinite number of samples to capture every possible nuance of an instrument.

t260g wrote:should i even get a hardware synth if i can use software? i like hardware stuff, but software is easier for my setup and it doesn't cost as much

Absynth 4, $199. Check out the demo version. I would get this if you're already running mostly software.

I no longer own any vintage gear but I never owned any that didn't work 100%. I certainly wouldn't buy one that didn't.

There's another R3/MicroKorg thread you should read: http://www.vintagesynth.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=33311 The MicroX is a Triton minus the sequencer and sampler stuffed into a tiny box. The keyboard is too short for some people to play (but you could play it from your V50 via MIDI). A good choic...

space6oy wrote:s**t...i was looking at the UK future music's website.

but...the US one doesn't put all of their articles online anyway.

The US mag has been defunct for over a year now