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Live music as loss leader can be replaced with something else. Decades ago, local bands benefitted when just having live music was a draw. Even better if it was *good* music. Competing forms of entertainment have flipped the script. TVs, DJs and karaoke nights are alternatives to live music. However, artists/musicians/bands with a following will bring people to any establishment they're playing. In addition to door charge profit-sharing, food and drinks sell too. Money is made. A venue can have live music between certain hours and clear out afterwards in order to turn tables. The bottom line to business owners is that if it doesn't make dollars it doesn't make sense.😎 -
Oscillator sync is indeed one of the most misunderstood and underutilized resource for sound design. In my programming courses at school, I dedicate a whole lesson to it, starting with sine waves to hear how the leader builds harmonics on the follower one at at a time, then using richer waveforms, etc. Unfortunately, on several digital synthesizers and softsynths, they don't give you a choice of waveforms for the leader; in order not to "waste" an oscillator just for the sync function, they have a built-in, "hidden" oscillator, with a fixed waveform (often, the same thing is happening for fm). What's more, I see quite often a single "sync" knob or slider, controlling the pitch of the leader oscillator *and* the modulation amount at the same time! And this on sophisticated, complex instrument as well. A bright exception is the Alesis Ion. The author of the video makes a passing mention of soft sync... and righly so, since every analog synth seems to implement it in a different way! On some, the follower flips its polarity when the leader starts its cycle, on others it does totally different things. Finally, the role of the leader, assuming it's not heard in the audio mixer, seems to be to just restart the follower... but in my experience, changing the leader's waveform *always* affects the resulting harmonic content. So yes, there's some room for experimentation. 🙂 -
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Here's someone playing my double-manual idea, but not on a very good stand for it! But wow, watch this 11 year old play... I also like this one, just some casual thing in what looks like a showroom, no fancy setup... -
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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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