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by steveman
Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:21 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: I don't know what to do...I need your opinion
Replies: 30
Views: 10690

well,i'm amazed...this is a true community!!!!!thank you so much... so many opinions...i love it!!!!! i'm chatting with a guy just right now who's interested in buying my moog,and the price seems to be good to me...i'm not gonna say the price to avoid any kind of consideration or critic...sorry 'bo...
by steveman
Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:51 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: A Modular Polysynth - Mental Exercise
Replies: 12
Views: 4604

Re: A Modular Polysynth - Mental Exercise

Thinking about the extremely narrow market for analog polysynths, it occurred to me that the best way to be successful to is just be all things to all people. With that in mind, I began an interesting mental exercise for a "modular" polysynth: 1. 61, 76, 88-key chassis, completely empty except for ...
by steveman
Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:45 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: What turned you on to electronic/synth music?
Replies: 112
Views: 43507

Tangerine Dream - Rubycon, heard (and name checked!) on some 70s BBC drama. Jarre - Oxygene Blade Runner (Just been watching the 'workprint' version on the 5 DVD box set, interesting seeing it w/o a lot of the well known music themes...) 70s Prog - Genesis, Floyd, Wakeman. While I liked the fact the...
by steveman
Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:43 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: The VCA
Replies: 24
Views: 8569

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't some high end processing equipment (e.g., the 1176) get a lot of love due to the colouration from the VCA? Yes, I've heard a lot of people bypass the compression in the 1176 just to pass signal through it's output transformer. Neve's are famous for their transfo...
by steveman
Sat May 31, 2008 3:17 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: cv/gate box for computer
Replies: 9
Views: 3387

No, it's bidirectional: MIDI to voltage, voltage to MIDI. Sensors are just voltages. You can tell it to do whatever you like, so that includes CV and triggers. Hook one (or more) up to a USB MIDI interface and it'll do what the OP asked. I think you're still missing the OPs point, he's after a CV b...
by steveman
Fri May 30, 2008 2:19 am
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: Summer NAMM
Replies: 63
Views: 23757

im looking forward to the mythical moog guitar According to this: http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2008/05/moog-guitar-review-spotted.html and Sonicstate, it's not mythical - it does actually exist ... I'd like to see Novation update the X-Station with the same controller mapping features of their R...
by steveman
Sat May 24, 2008 11:38 am
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: cv/gate box for computer
Replies: 9
Views: 3387

madtheory wrote:Max/ MSP and this:
http://eroktronix.com/
No, that involves MIDI, and it's sensors -> MIDI. I think what the OP was after was CVs (via USB/ PC card) directly from your computer sequencer.
by steveman
Thu May 22, 2008 8:38 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: Waldorf Micro-Q (old version) vs. Blofeld
Replies: 9
Views: 4645

Is that I was in a store yesterday and when they asked me 900 euros for a Micro-Q I said I would have to think, specially because there is the Blofeld now (of course I wouldn't think as the price was just insanely high...), to which he replied I shouldn't compare as the sound on the older Waldorf M...
by steveman
Thu May 22, 2008 8:14 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: MFB synth 3
Replies: 89
Views: 27735

pricklyrobot wrote: Also, I just picked up an MFB Filterbox (lots of fun so far; thank W. for that $600 check, about time he did something right)
He won't thank you for using it like that... weren't you supposed to spend it on something made in the US? ;)
by steveman
Sun May 18, 2008 12:09 am
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: Korg Prophecy appreciation thread
Replies: 30
Views: 11862

AstroDan wrote:How many other digital synths are mono?

I want to know.
The Yamaha VL Series VL-1(M), VL-7,VL-70-M. Err... Casio VL-Tone :wink:
by steveman
Thu May 15, 2008 8:59 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: If you had to choose THREE synths...
Replies: 92
Views: 26170

JJQ wrote: Pre 1980: Multimoog, 1300$ (wild guess)
Let me know where you can get one for tha price from pls ... I'd double that price at least.
by steveman
Tue May 13, 2008 9:44 pm
Forum: HELP!
Topic: PC>midi thru>patchbay: potential lag?
Replies: 7
Views: 1948

or does the midi thru totally bypass the sq80 so to speak in the first place? It doesn't - every step in a daisy chain introduces lag. Not entirely true. Many synths have a proper hardware MIDI thru - this is not processed in any way, just goes through an opto-isolator/buffer. Don't know about the ...
by steveman
Thu May 08, 2008 1:28 am
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: The Vintage-classics of the future - What synths and Why?
Replies: 90
Views: 33942

Here's where I think we are in 30 years: Sampling ... 100TB would be an average size I guess, just imagine what would all fit into 100TB. btw, in '94 orso my PC's HD was 420MB, now 14 years later I've more than 1TB in total, that's over 20x growth. With this pace in 30 years we'll have 400 TB hardd...
by steveman
Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:59 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: Octave Kitten or Powertran Transcendant 2000??
Replies: 17
Views: 5978

Re: Octave Kitten or Powertran Transcendant 2000??

Oh and am I going nuts or did there used to be a Buyer's Guide section round here? There used to be, but PPL kept posting in the wrong place so they ditched it. Re your Q, don't really know either, but the Kitten has mixable -1 & -2 octave sub oscs & waveforms, so I reckon it may sound more than ha...
by steveman
Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:21 am
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: electribe EA - can it chill?
Replies: 21
Views: 7737

http://www11.nrk.no/urort/Artist/SiestaSubmarina/default.aspx "It's allright little elephant" features the EA in arather ambient style. one part plays the sequenced high-pitched sound effects, while the other part is layered with some pads on my FP-2. sorry the sound quality of that track sucks tho...