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Subject: what synth...again!!!!
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Original Message 1/14 16-Mar-02 @ 05:45 PM - what synth...again!!!!
Message 2/14 16-Mar-02 @ 08:56 PM - RE: what synth...again!!!!
What gear do you have already? What is your budget?
Message 3/14 17-Mar-02 @ 02:28 AM - RE: what synth...again!!!!
i've had this synth (cs1x) for a year now and i still haven't figured out how to assign midi channels on it. this is my one gripe about this synth, i can utilise every other feature of the damn thing but i still don't understand. it's my understanding of midi, although i can hook up my other instruments fine. i thought i had finally found the solution the other day, but no.
i wouldn't mind if the cs1x remained in the set up but i don't want it as a master. however i think if i got rid i could put the money toward a better synth, just not sure what though...
Message 4/14 17-Mar-02 @ 03:10 AM - RE: what synth...again!!!!
Message 5/14 17-Mar-02 @ 02:43 PM - RE: what synth...again!!!!
Ape
Message 6/14 17-Mar-02 @ 02:54 PM - RE: what synth...again!!!!
if it's only the programming that's a little cumbersome i don't mind. the midi routing has to be very simple though, none of this using up several channels for a single patch and getting me all confused. anybody use the k2000 here? is it really that difficult to program?
Message 7/14 17-Mar-02 @ 03:10 PM - RE: what synth...again!!!!
Message 8/14 17-Mar-02 @ 10:20 PM - RE: what synth...again!!!!
Message 9/14 17-Mar-02 @ 10:39 PM - RE: what synth...again!!!!
you're talking like you're going to buy a synth based on contyroller options - ??? get a fatar or something in that case so you can do key splits - that's what you mean by more than one module at a time, right? or do you mean sending your cc tweak to 5 modules on different channels?
plus your choice of sequencer could totally change this, since ie. logic routes all active midi to the selected instrument anyway, so if you're using another seq and switch soon.. and don't plan on going live? it's not like you need to have a physical synth these days anyway unless you have a particular sound you're after??
sorry for your underfacilitated synth woes.
Message 10/14 17-Mar-02 @ 11:38 PM - RE: what synth...again!!!!
xoxos, i thought that a synth like the k2000 could be programmed to come up with just about any sound. do i really need to get a synth for the kind of sounds it makes? standard of synthesis, yeah sure, but sounds?
i would like a synth that had a broad range of capabilities, not complicated, multiple outs, not too big, nice colour, for a fiver;)
seriously, i agree about the "not needing a physical synth", i could do without if i got a decent sampler. i don't use the computer for music, although i have thought about it, but it just seems like more hassle, all i want to do is make music! so i use the rm1x as a sequencer, which is great but it has such a small screen!
i may decide yet to get a good sampler and a cheap controller keyboard? whatever, all i know is i'm sick of this cs1x.
Message 11/14 18-Mar-02 @ 02:20 AM - RE: what synth...again!!!!
It is a complex machine, and will take some serious alone time with the manual, and a lot of motivation on your time, but it is a wonderful synth. I tend to neglect it because I have 2 synths that are much easier to program, but are FAR less flexible. You can get some great VA type rumbles out of it, but also a lush, beautiful enveloping string section. And the piano sounds damn good too.
Plus, with a Kurzweil, all the keyboardists you know with have pianist envy (that's for you sitar).
Message 12/14 18-Mar-02 @ 01:34 PM - RE: what synth...again!!!!
logic is/other sw sequencers? are brilliant. the integration of midi and audio schedules greatly facilitates assemblage, course it's all biased by what you want to do anyway.
really, though. some synths are very capable, and many synths certainly offer enough to be all that you need and want (i'd thrive in an only 4-op fm scenario) but they do have inherently different properties. ie. the sound of high frequency modulation on an analog isn't going to come off the same on digital, a va doesn't do advanced fm sounds.. they make sounds differently, make different sounds.. i'm interested, anyway
keep the cs1x and get a midi port for your pc :p
Message 13/14 21-Mar-02 @ 05:58 PM - RE: what synth...again!!!!
As far as a synth along the same lines that's easy to use and has an outstanding MIDI implementation (everything transmits and receives MIDI), look no further than a Nord Lead. You may find the 4 part multi limiting though.
-Craig
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