Cheers for the insight Zamise. :wink: I’ve been very tempted to flog some of my current gear to get one as the do come up for an obtainable price (for me) 2nd had but I know Jorge relies on the sale of new units to pay the programmer for further development so its like shooting yourself in the foot ...

if you can spare another rack space get a Waldorf Pulse if not a Doepfer MS404 is a good option.

They both use the same SID chip so should sound the same in theory but I think the main difference is that the SIDstation was a limited run manufactured unit and the MIDIbox is a DIY kit.

Does this machine finally have a workable OS that lives up to the machines potential and can be used live without any worries? Its V0.97 at the mo, do we still need to wait for V1.0 for it to be a fully fledged beast? Are there any Spectralis owners out there who can give a little insight into what’...

Vintage synths are not so prone to failure as many posts would have them seem. People who don't have them are the people most likely to say "I don't have an analog synth because I'm afraid they will fail." They do fail, but not nearly so often as people would think. They do require minimal maintena...

I remember a time when the Pulse was £599 new and you could get a 2nd hand MS20 or Pro1 in good working order for around £350-400 which had most likely spent most its life unused in some back room during most the 80's. These days most vintage synths have had a good hammering over the last 10yrs with...

GeneralBigbag wrote:http://ookpikk.googlepages.com/UDoublestuffthere.mp3
http://ookpikk.googlepages.com/Baseball ... onDemo.mp3

That's an MDUW, which will explain everything that's not drums.

I like the 2nd one 8) try speeding it up to 150 BPM and shorten the decays a little.

ER1
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Rave-o-loution 309?

I'd avoid the MC303 like the Black Death, its a stinker and you'll want shut of it again after a month.

Can anyone point me to some decent MD samples or demos? I want to be a believer but the only half decent thing I've heard is what Autechre do and even then its still sounds very plinky-plonky like an EMX1 put through an exciter.

Maybe its just not my thing.

I’m not sure I can be bothered playing my Rev as a sound module but I like to have it playing my AN1X in mono mode then putting it through the filter in for some whacky ringmod/FM type acid weirdness. You can make the AN1X’s VCO’s sound very analogue too if you know what you’re doing. The Rev’s sequ...

I'm not sure if you can get this cheap 2nd hand.



Other than that I'd try a R1MX or maybe even an MC303. (did I say that out loud? 8-[ )

Hey Soundwave (I do happen to have the 1st season of Transformers from the library, by the way), The Beatles did experiment with that sort of early sound manipulation that John Cage, Stockausen and Pierre Henry utilized. One of my favourite examples is the end of "Being for the Benefit of Mister Ki...

How did I have an inkling this was coming! :roll: How can you mention Stockhausen, and then make a statement about electronic music finally being taken seriously in the 80s?? Electronic music was taken seriously by academia and composers up UNTIL the 80s, at which point it was adopted (in the eyes o...

Although I was only just around at the time synths and electronic music in the 70's weren't treated as the proper musical instruments they were but rather as a gimmic or synthetic music that wasn't as accepted as it is now. I heard (don't quote me) that the Beatles tampered with some very experiment...