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Subject: Hey! What do you like about the gear yo have?
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Original Message 1/9 19-Mar-98 @ 10:05 PM - Hey! What do you like about the gear yo have?
Message 2/9 20-Mar-98 @ 10:15 PM - RE: Hey! What do you like about the gear yo have?
Yamaha SY99. Sweet sound (mostly from the vg effects) otherwise no special features. RCM very clever and unique but not much use really. Nice leccie pianos and some unusual samples. Good keyboard, 76 keys and 3 wheels make it a good master. Time I sold it, any offers?!
Wavestation SR. Best pads of anything I've heard - they just keep moving. It's different, little twinkles and plops come in after a few seconds in a pad. The secret to good music (here he goes....) is keeping it simple - a WS pad plus lead and drums is often enough for a good chunk of track - you just don't need to add other stuff to fill it out and make it interesting. An absolute bastard to program tho'.
Cheetah MS6. Warm and rich for basses in particular. Trouble is it konks out too soon in the bass - an extra octave would make it sooo good. Envelope controlled oscillator mix.
Korg Prophecy. Synch, 3 oscillators, ring mod and xmod. I don't care wot you say about LFO's, the SUPERNOVA AIN'T GOT XMOD! No choice of filter cut-off slopes tho'.
Arp Axxe with 5 VCOs including pwm, synch and xmod, extra ADSR and LFO, joystick etc. Major bass attack. Often criticised for a thin filter but stuff it with 5x signal from all those oscillators and it really kicks ass. Extra LFO has a synch function to a further LFO so that moving the other one's frequency gives an untuneful arpeggio effect. I could do a sample cd full of really unique sounds from this beasty...
Message 3/9 20-Mar-98 @ 10:15 PM - RE: Hey! What do you like about the gear yo have?
Message 4/9 23-Mar-98 @ 09:51 PM - RE: Hey! What do you like about the gear yo have?
The Suupernova is capable of those bigggger sounds as well.
I also note you have a cheeta MS6. Our President/ Managing director designed and voiced it. He will be complemented by your comment.
Cheers Phill.
Message 5/9 24-Mar-98 @ 08:35 PM - RE: Hey! What do you like about the gear yo have?
Poly aftertouch - useful for picking out just one brass note in a chord and giving it vibrato or opening the filter.
User interface - this is about as good as a data-entry synth gets. There's a button for each module, eg envelope, that puts 6 parameters on the large VFD display, and there's six buttons, one next to each parameter which select it for the data entry slider. If you want the next page of 6 parameters for that module you just push the envelope button again etc.
Can apply curves/quantization to controllers to change their charecteristics eg make the mod wheel move in 32 steps rather than be smooth...
Can define custom scales - still too many synths can't do this - but what I really like about VFX is that you can tell it how sharp the top C should be and it'll interpolate (and even extrapolate) all the other key scale values. I like to have the notes get progressively sharper as you go up the keyboard so that the top note is a few cents higher than normal.
2 patch select buttons by the wheels - these are a primitive morph in that you can set up 3 other patches and switch between normal and the other 2 (similar or completely different) sounds by pushing either or both buttons.
Keyboard - most reviewers hate it but I like it a lot; ok it sounds a bit cheap and clacky but it's very easy to play fast. It feels like you're pushing againts a weight rather than a spring, more like a light piano action.
Message 6/9 27-Mar-98 @ 05:25 PM - RE: Hey! What do you like about the gear yo have?
Message 7/9 27-Mar-98 @ 06:17 PM - RE: Hey! What do you like about the gear yo have?
Message 8/9 28-Mar-98 @ 04:02 PM - RE: Hey! What do you like about the gear yo have?
why? - if you have to ask then you ain't wrestled with one.. simplicity itself.. get the arpeggiator runninng with a triplet delay ....mMmmMm
although my Juno2 comes close to, nice pure analogue pads.. luverlly
Message 9/9 31-Mar-98 @ 11:13 PM - RE: Hey! What do you like about the gear yo have?
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