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I don't have a problem with tuning being used as a creative effect. (Auto-tune was originally demo'ed using a Theremin!). But if it's the default on every pop record, it's lazy and uninspiring. EDIT: @ElmerJFudd has posted something similar ahead of me. Cheers, Mike. -
Exactly. In a weird way, I've been out of sorts ever since I retired my Fantom X7. I keep looking to get that vibe and sound back (not to mention aftertouch), never really succeeding. All subsequent keyboards have failed to give me that connection, including Roland's own. -
His indignation is not that they (including his music playing kids) didn’t hear the out of tuneness, but that their response was somehow about having to know the song first before being able to render judgment. I find that very strange as well. Or, as he says at the end, people are just not connecting the terminology of sharp & flat & tuning to what they can hear to be “bad” or unpleasant. [cue my rant about the death of arts education in schools] -
Right. If that synth is a musician's instrumental voice, it's harder to replace. I definitely would not suggest that someone, somewhere on the planet isn't doing great things with a synth. I do believe that a musician could leave their synth at home and still cover their gigs with reasonable facsimile sounds from a modern KB.😎 -
Well for me as a live cover band player, I don't give two craps what music is being made today with instruments I'd want for the gig! I suppose if I'm still gigging at age 110 our target audience will have moved into the 2020s, but I suspect I may have hung it up at that point! Hell I thank the stars I'm not being asked to play stuff like Uptown Funk where I'd actually have to work hard to program patches At home, I still gravitate toward my more vintage softsynths (Diva, Repro) simply because I like them. Not to say I don't fire up other ones like Massive X or am not interested in some of the newer plugs like those from Traktion, but I often find I just connect better with simpler vintage sounds. With some of the synths I've tried, one patch fills up the sonic space so much that I'm like "I've used my index finger to hold a note, what's left?" That of course is more about the programming than the tech used, in particular the effects, but it's a pretty common thing. -- To the main point, it's not unique to keys players. Our guitarist doesn't need his Axe III--he could easily use an HX Stomp (he has one as backup). Or bring out his expensive Les Pauls/PRSes. Nobody will notice but him as long as he stays in tune And so it goes for anyone playing live, some us pick gear because it's satisfying to play, and make whatever compromises we feel we have to. My buddy used to bring a (chopped?) b3 and leslie to bar gigs along with his other keyboards...the other band members told me "he takes too long to set up" and "he takes up too much room" But he likes playing it live even though it certainly wasn't needed or the easiest thing to do.
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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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