Help me choose a rackmounting VA

[paugui]

I only have the keyboard version and unfortunately I don't have any VC cards, but from what I've heard, it is pretty good, it sounds just like a D-50.
I might get the card if I find it soon.
If that happens I let you know how it's sound is compared with my D-550, but I am pretty sure other people might give you their opinion based on experience (and to be true, I'd really like to know that too)

[computron]

A VSynth rack would be nice I guess but too rich for my tastes right now (and no vocoder?)

The V-Synth XT has the king of all vocoders built in.

Check it out, it's funky fresh!



Electric Boogie Down!

That vocoder sounds nice almost like the nord vocoder.But that is far from the king of all vocoders. That would be the VP-330 or the svc 350 the KING of all vocoders. I think most analog vocoders sound better then modern ones from the svc to the dyncord to ems to moog .those are the top class.plug a svc to a analog synth and use the chours pedal and its midnight star kraftwerk freestyle madness."to all you freaks dont stop the rock " the ms 2000 vocoder sounds ok i can get it to sound close to my svc but not realy.

[Stab Frenzy]

V-Synths are well and truly one of the biggest bargains going these days

Is that because they're a PITA to programme?

I think they're quite easy to program.
They're biggest "problem" is the fact that they are full of features (you can have 2 Osc's, 2 COSM processors, 12 ADSR's and 5 LFO's in a patch), which might complicate the programming.

Yeah, it's really easy to program when you know what you want to do, there are a lot of options though so if you've got no idea what you're doing and you just turn a whole lot of knobs you probably won't get the decent results that you would on something like a Juno.

I think the reason that they're cheap is that they're still pretty new but there's a newer version of them out. So the people who don't care about new stuff aren't really interested in them and the people who want the latest and greatest want a GT for the colour screen, newer kinds of synthesis etc. That means bargains for the few people who realise what a good deal the first gen one is though, at least until someone famous mentions how great they are in a gearwire interview or something.