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By Shamanzarek · Posted
Mike first used the 300 on "Never Comes the Day" from On the Threshold of a dream. On "Watching and Waiting" it was layered with a pipe organ so it is not purely Mellotron. Here is a list of Mellotron 300 sounds and songs it can be heard on: https://www.gforcesoftware.com/products/the-streetly-tapes-m3000-for-m-tron-pro/ Mike had custom string sounds made for his Mellotron Mark II which are first heard on Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. Before that album they would typically triple-track the Mellotron strings with staggered start times to smooth warbling in the stock 3 Violins sound. -
By DeltaJockey · Posted
Yes, that's very much something I've come to realize. When it comes to reverbs, I have several convolution reverbs which I have paid for, for their surround support. One of them is EW Spaces2. It has a lovely photo of the actual hall/church/studio etc that the impulse response represents. Whereas Logic's Space Designer is a pretty basic programmers' interface. I thought the EW sounded better initially, but after spending many more months on SD, have found I can get a better sound than from Spaces2. Now when I return to Spaces2, I can't get anything I'm that happy with. On a side note, I've stopped using Spaces because it only allows one activation, which stuffs up my projects if I want to load a studio project on my laptop. And I'm done with constantly transferring licences between desktop and laptop via the iLok manager. I don't have enough usb ports for an iLok drive on the laptop. This goes for many paid plugins, it's too much hassle to transfer one licence all the time. That's another reason using Logics, (or other DAW's), bundled plugins gives so much more freedom to move. -
By Synthaholic · Posted
Fairly pedestrian until the solo. After that we get a foot solo! -
I own one. It's got a very short throw as Scott says and it's an extremely "light" action--meaning you barely touch a key and it goes down. I changed the velocity curve right away but it still took me a while to be able to play piano on it--and even then not all that well. On the other hand it actually works pretty well for organ, for a non-waterfall board. I haven't tried the PSR keyboards. It feels better than the ultra cheap midi controllers I've tried. I like it better than the Fantom 07 I tried, though at first I was the other way around until I spent more time with the Fantom-0. AnotherScott had it right IMO with that keybed--too springy even though it feels a bit more premium at "first touch". All this stuff is so subjective! I've done many gigs with mine. Right now its a backup to my Nord stage 3 compact. I supplemented mine with a b3 organ app, that to me is the biggest sonic shortcoming. I don't think the action ever held me back at all, though as I say it takes a new approach to play piano on it. I tended to play too fast and a bit sloppy on that action. -
I was legitimately surprised when the dust settled and the Nautilus turned out to be the de facto successor and not just a stopgap release...still wondering what Korg's next big play is. Though they've released a lot of their tech in software, it's still hard to imagine they'd have Nautilus as their hardware flagship swan song. For me, this is technical because it's not discontinued as far as I know, but after getting a PX5S recently, I've gotten really nostalgic about gigging with Casio instruments in the 2010s (my first gigging board was a PX130, which had me thinking every keyboard I was gonna get would be that easy to take around...this was soon shattered when I got a Triton 88 from online, without checking dimensions and weight first...). I'd love to see Casio reignite that stream of portable, affordable, professional keyboard such as the PX5S and 560 that would just totally blow people away with the quality and price vs the competition.
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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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