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By hoggernick · Posted
For what it's worth, I got a VV deluxe pretty early on, in 2011. I've played and owned Rhodes over the decades, favorite was a 1975 suitcase 88 which I've given to a friend because I have to thin things out. The '75 rhodes was built like a tank, never ever needed attention. My VV needs much more attention. My biggest issue has been with the hammers. The blue plastic hammers (1/2 plastic, 1/2 wood, wood that the tip glues onto) they were using back in 2011 were very fragile. The little part that the screw goes through to screw the hammer down was made with inferior plastic or something. I have broken many. I think they sent the first couple of replacements for free, but after that I had no choice but to just pay full price, around $15 each for a complete hammer. I see they're now listing the 1/2 plastic 1/2 wood ones as out of stock. I resorted to designing and 3d printing my own replacements for the little part that broke about five years ago, and that has me back to perfectly happy with my VV. It sounds great. It plays great. It has all the adjustibility that a rhodes has. It has a great stereo preamp. I got their very first MIDI one, I'm the one that first requested MIDI and pointed them at PNOScan. They got the MIDI strip+electronics sent to them from PNOScan and installed it during the build. The MIDI still works great. Surely they've resolved their hammer issues by now, but it might be worth asking them "what hammer revisions have you gone through since the first Vintage Vibe pianos around 2010?" The replacements I was getting were red, not blue. I think they may have been made with an improved process or plastic, but I'm not sure. The image below reflects the part that continually breaks on me on the left, and my 3d printed grey part on the right. -
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Waaaay back when....I bought a white face ARP Odyssey off a friend of our drummer. Never had my eye on one, but it was a great deal and I needed one more synth for my rig. Probably did 200 gigs with it. I used it a ton, and it never let me down. I eventually sold it to help pay for a brand new DX7 when they first hit the streets. (Ya, it was that long ago) I honestly have never missed it - not even once, and would not buy another one, regardless of who makes it or how inexpensive they are. Too many better options out there these days. Odysseys always sounded a little too "thin" for my tastes. I much prefer a synth that can do "fat".....and any 37 note keyboards are generally an automatic pass for me now. -
By charliepersol · Posted
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.
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