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Pontifex Godzigulous and The Titans of Flatulence Nice try, but doesn't roll off the tongue very well. Sorry. -
I’m fortunate enough to have an M8x in my home studio and love it. Having owned a bunch vintage synths and moving to weighted key beds since the 1980’s starting with the KX-88 after my Dyno-My-Piano Rhodes 73, I’m happy to play the M8x daily. If I were playing gigs and moving gear, I’d happily go for a Fantom 08 or Nord Stage 4 due to the weight. After 40+ years, I find most synth action keyboards lacking… play what best suits you and your style. One size does not fit all… -
Wurlitzer 200a (or 140/145) by a mile. -
I spent an afternoon in my local music store a few months back demoing all the 12” powered speakers with a CP88. The Yamaha DZR12s which I was very interested in I eliminated immediately. It came down to EV EKX12 and QSC K2.2. The EVs were much smoother across the full range of the piano but it seemed like the QSCs had a slightly tighter bottom end. I went with the EVs, I use them on stage and don’t have any issue with the bottom end like I thought I heard in the store. Not a big EV fan in any way but love these. I will say our bass player has the QSC KW122s and lets me use them now and and that is by far the best for me but much heavier and more expensive. -
Yeah this. ^^^ I had the MS KBR-M as my first attempt to get a Leslie for a clone. I had it on a low furniture dolly re-sized to support the tiltback cab (there wasn't any ergonomic way for one guy to carry it) and a Tuki padded cover. It hit a crack in the sidewalk on the way into the club and fell about 2.5". The stupid MDF cab cracked. Not dented... cracked. Who the eff makes gig cabinets out of MDF? That dense stuff is good for a home audio speaker as long as your house never floods. I dumped the amp soon after that and nailed a cosmetically distressed 145 with an unrusted amp in Central Cal on ebay and never looked back. Hopefully MS has learned this lesson with the KP series.
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I just bought one used two days ago. I had in the past (a very past) the original ARP Odissey and an Avatar (the guitar version of the Odissey). They sounded quite differenti, and now I understand why: two different version of the filter. A friend of mine still have the all black one with coloured sliders, which Is again different, maybe two poles filter? Anyway the Behringer sounds good but a bit differenti too. My ARP had a ring modulator I used to build fabolous bell like sounds: metallic, full of harmonics. The kind of sound you can hear on Japan Tin Drum or Oil on Canvas albums. Until now I couldn't recreate this sound. Neither the Avatar did. Just my ARP Odissey I sold for little Money :( -
In V.A.S.T., be it the original V.A.S.T. or the newer vaster V.A.S.T. with Cascade and Dynamic, there are several ways you can use internal DSP sources with Samples: 1. Samples only 2. Internal DSP Oscillators only without any Sample 3. Samples mixed with internal DSP Oscillators In the new V.A.S.T., you can certainly use a multi-sampled Keymap, alongside an internal anti-aliased DSP Osc, e.g. a 2-block SINE+ for a single Layer, or even an aliased one like the old SAW+. For larger AA DSP Oscs, e.g. the 4-block SAW, you'd need to use Cascade Mode, a passthrough signal and a Mixer ALG. So these aren't mutually exclusive. Instead, what the manual seems to indicate is that if you want to do a traditional analogue subtractive synth, then you'd rather not use a Keymap, which makes sense since analogue subtractive synths don't use them at all. You can still use a Keymap's sample Envelope if it is set to Natural, even if the Sample itself isn't sounding via the Layer, say, if you have simply a 4-block AA DSP SAW. That SAW block effectively cuts off any of the Sample signal. However, as the AMPENV mode is set to Natural, it is the factory AMPENV for that multi-Sampled Keymap that is applied to the Layer. The Natural envelopes have more details than can be produced with a User AMPENV. The thing that happens with setting the Keymap to Silence is that it sets each key's amplitude to the same maximum amplitude. Maybe that's what you need in a certain program, but sometimes, if you are doing an emulative program, you could be better off actually referencing the emulation's Keymaps Sample although the latter isn't heard, with the corresponding Natural Envelope, or of course, you could just go into User Mode and make your own envelope. Hope this helps. -
Sweetwater might accept to deliver to Canada, but you will be charged transport accordingly and as anything going USA to Canada your item will go through customs and it is always possible to end up with extra fees - sometimes very expensive. I personally had a very bad experience about 10 years ago and promised myself to never import again from the USA unless the seller confirms on paper he pays for all possible customs and duties extra fees. Buying Kurzweil products in Canada has always been complicated. In the 1990s a few stores in the province kept a couple of them, but if you wanted something they didn't have you had to order sight unseen and wait months to get your purchase. That is how I bought my MIDIboard, K1200 and finally, around 2000, a PC2X. I hated the Fatar action on the PC2X from day one and swore to never buy a keyboard sight unseen ever again.
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