shaft9000 wrote:perhaps Solaris?...but i don't think there's a JP-8 emulator in there iirc

Haven't tried, but I suspect I wouldn't be able to get there with the existing filter algorithms. There's not currently an emulation of a OTA-type filter in the Solaris. Maybe a future update.

At any rate, any synth that generates enough of a DC spike to damage any associated audio gear needs to be checked/calibrated for DC offset, or "VCA balance". There are some digital synths that generate pretty nasty pops when they initialize the DACs at power up. My V-synth does that... I have to w...

I believe the Synthi-A and AKS are the same as the VCS3 in that they use a non-standard scaling. Something like 0.3V/octave, if memory serves. You could build a circuit with an attenuator and a voltage adder to make it work with a standard 1V/octave CV keyboard (or MIDI interface).

To me, the Eminent is the one string synth that really nails that string-section sound that you hear a lot in TV/movie music and easy-listening recordings from the '60s. It's a very "sweet" sound. The Omni is a bit more synthetic-sounding and edgier. The best way to sum them up: Eminent: Jarre, "Oxy...

i was thinking of get a DIY synth kit but am to afraid that i will screw it up and waste money that could have went to one that was already made and working fine You need to think of it the other way around... if you can't trust yourself to build a simple DIY kit, you definitely shouldn't be diggin...

Consider the Juno-60. It has a more capable arpeggiator and probably costs less than a J4. Most certainly less than a J8.

Nobody here is going to rag on the 'Tron (Rick Wakeman isn't here :lol: ). I've not owned one myself, but I had a friend who had the misfortune of owning a M400 that Sound Sales had done a number on. Many times I helped him unsnarl tapes, and it also had one of the deadly CMC-4 motor control boards....

I remember trying to hook my 106 to the computer and control it with VST's, the parameters didn't really react to the VST signals, The 106 does not conform to the standard Roland format (it was one of Roland's first synths with factory MIDI), so if your VST was trying to generate sysex in that form...

Most people I knew recording electronic stuff during this era went straight to DAT tape. There were good computer based midi sequencers, and what they could not do, you had to do live while recording. "Virtual mixing" was a big thing during that transitional period in the '90s, when personal comput...

The second one, I'm not sure... there seems to be some highpass or bandpass filtering happening. Based on the time that it seems to come from, I'm going to guess Jupiter-8. Jupiter-8 had switchable filter slope. Jupiter-6 has the multimode filter. Correct, sir. For some reason I thought the J8 had ...

1/4" tape (or in the 'Tron's case, 3/8"--just gotta love the Brits! :D ) is a very robust format even to this day, if you don't abuse it. Mellotrons had a unique problem: cross-erasure, on account of the heads all being wired in series (which is also a factor in the 'Tron's sound). When you played ...

The first and third ones are sounds almost any analog synth can do. They both sound like filtered pulse or square waves, with fairly simple enevelopes. The second one, I'm not sure... there seems to be some highpass or bandpass filtering happening. Based on the time that it seems to come from, I'm g...

You actually missed a significant era in recording technology. Most studios got rid of their tube amps in the '60s, and the three-track Studers were mostly gone by 1970. Multitrack 1" and 2" ruled from about 1970 to 1990: the big logic-controlled MCI machines and so forth. Pretty much everything in ...

Hmm. Since the guy did work on the panel board, the thing I'd suspect is that he messed up that board, either by creating a solder bridge that is shorting something, or by messing up the ribbon cables. However, you mentioned that the keyboard is acting up also. There is logic on the CPU board that h...

The original mashup synth, Max Crook's Musitron, from 1960:



Read about it here:

http://www.delshannon.com/maxmusitron.htm