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By jazzpiano88 · Posted
I just watched the Le Sserafim performance and it looked fine to me. Audience was on fire singing along and loving it. -
There's been several "what mixer?" threads lately. If you're having trouble deciding what to get (and have the cash), I'd say the A&H CQ-18T is a super small, power monster that is pretty hard to beat. Just picked one up yesterday. Built like a tiny lightweight tank and super easy to use. Did i mention it is small and weighs considerably less than a gallon of milk? Compared to the usual suspects out there (Behringer Xr-18, etc.), here's (IMO) the main things that really set it apart from the others: -Built in WIFI router that actually works. No need to bring a router, and unlike the useless wifi on the Behringers, this one is strong (both 2.4 & 5) works quite well. -Built in color touch screen. You can easily control everything and see your settings without need for an ipad or phone. But of course you can use them too. -Built in mapped rotary controls. There's 3 rotary controls that automatically map to controls on every screen. e.g. you can turn the channel volume down with an actual knob (or still use your finger on the touch screen if you prefer) -Built in 96K multitrack recording to SD card. Pop in a $7 dollar SD card and record 18 discreet channels, plus your master mix, and your submixes. (24 tracks total) -Simple, tabletop style format like an analog mixer. For almost 10 years, i've been using an A&H Qu-Pac (which i absolutely love and thought was small at the time), but the CQ-18T does 90% of what my QU-Pac does at about a third of the weight, and does some things the Qu-Pac can't. It ain't cheap though. $1200 bucks is a damn lot of dough to put out when you can get the ubiquitous XR-18 for $750. But, to me, the on-board screen, tactile knob control, lack of need to bring a router, and ability to record without a computer help soften the sticker shock. Hard to tell in the below pic, but the mixer's footprint is smaller than the laptop i'm typing this on (13.6 x 9.5 inches). -
Have you thought of adding the Mixface to your P125? Cheers, Mike. -
Very well said. There's a vintage car show here in the summer. One my neighbors has a Silver Ghost from the twenties which his pride and joy. When the weather is nice, he brings it out. The kids in town love to toot the rubber ball horn. I stick around when that happens. It's a great sound. At the car show, he is one of the stars. Rightly so. There's a maintenance shop here in town, which helps keep his car running, year after year. For them, it's a labor of love. Similarly, I reckon old analog vintage synths will become more and more prized inside smaller and smaller milieus. There's no doubting their immense capabilities and character, some from the design, some from the aging of the circuits. Every succeeding generation owes the early synth-makers a debt of gratitude: for the imagination, the courage, the example. That's why I love to play the old synths when I can. Can I replicate their sound? Never to a 100% to be honest. But what I love is the music, and modern instruments have a ton of character also, if you are willing to put it in. The key ingredients for character are imperfection and eccentricity in my experience. Today, if I am imitating a drum loop as it might have been performed with an Akai S900, I might want to downsample it to 12 bits. To add some crustiness. To get some character. If I am imitating vintage analog oscillators on a modern analog synth, I've been known to send tiny amounts of white noise into the pitch modulation CV of the synth. To create some jitter. To get some character. -
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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. -
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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