They called it paraphonic because it's a quick and easy way to be clear that you can produce two separate tones from the keyboard at once, but can't articulate them separately. Truth in advertising and all that.

Hey, sometimes a guy just wants to get up and rock out, y'know?

Anyway, you can't help but inflate a guitarist's ego - that's just guitarists for you - so there's no point in worrying about it.

I'd use a keytar. Just not a VA one. What we really need is an analog keytar with aftertouch, for ultimate expressive noodling capability.

Oh drool. I may have to part with a kidney...

I've never used a Mono/Poly myself, but I absolutely love my MS-20 Mini - absolutely demo one if you can, but I'd recommend it even if you can't. Even just the combination of resonant low-pass and high-pass filters (and an additional non-resonant pair in the ESP) opens up so many possibilities, and ...

zoomtheline wrote:I know it sounds awful and probably snobby but I hope the price puts some people off as it means the sounds will be more individual and not be all over the place.

It is awful and snobby.

Nice

Man, those chords almost sound like Yamaha FM...is that the JX-10?

Wound up scrapping the plan to reuse an old piece (it just wasn't coming together,) but stumbled onto something I really like today. Oy, ten days to pull it together...

Ah, in that case I will agree with most of that. In wider circles those machines are exactly what you say and what they set out to be, generic. But, there are people who do interesting things with cheap machines. Oh, true enough, but that's less of a credit to the designers of the machine than the ...

What boxes are those then? It's all over the modern market, from the cheapshit "100 tones! 100 styles! 100 songs! Zero quality!" home keyboards to the makes-generic-triphophiphoptrancedance-so-you-don't-have-to "groovebox" modules like Roland's MC-909 or Yamaha's RM1x. The whole industry has been r...

While some of it is just me being an a*s, some of it has another purpose. I fight a lot of modern technology because a lot of modern technology serves customer demand... and customer demand is often about convenience, low prices, and emulation of stuff other people have done. As an educator, I'd re...

Part of it, at the time, was that it was the first really affordable digital synthesizer, so it had price, stability, and the allure of the new shiny thing over its competitors in the world of analog synthesis. The other part is that it sounds really damn good. Distinctive but capable of a broad var...

Until today I was blissfully ignorant of the existence of this Derrida; but since he apparently was a driving influence behind the self-indulgent, masturbatory bullshit that is deconstructivist architecture, f**k 'im.

Yeah, the MS-20 Mini does some quite nice bass, especially when you crank up the resonance on the HPF and put the cutoff just around your lowest note.