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By Iconoclast · Posted
I currently have one for sale on Reverb bundled with all the accessories (Mixface/triple pedal/shelves). I bought it because at the time I was gigging with a kid who did a lot of smaller gigs/shorter gigs and it was super easy to schlep and setup and didn't take up a ton of space. He was doing original music and that means doing a lot of on/off stage in a hurry kinda gigs. It excelled for that. Mixface is a great product and works like a champ within the Studio Logic ecosystem. I even used it quite effectively as drawbars and changed on the fly with it all the time. Mixface has more control than you'll ever need. It is essentially 2 "pages" of mapped controls and I kept page 2 completely mapped to organ controls so it acted essentially as an organ module with full control of all up front organ controls. Then page 1 of the Mixface was a mixer for my VST's or whatever I needed for the current patch. The magnetic aspect of the Mixface and the computer shelf are brilliant and work just like advertised. Mixface is pretty small and you can get another board right up against it. But Mixface doesn't need to be attached to the SL88, you can put it anywhere convenient in your setup. I'll try to attach some pictures that show various setups that I attempted...and for a while I was really trying everything I could. I struggled with VST pianos until I got the velocity curves right and then I really liked it. The TP40W is IMO much better than the TP100 that Arturia uses. I've used both. TP40W is kind of a heavy action but once you get the curves right it can be very expressive. In the end, I have a Nord rig that made it kind of redundant so I haven't been using it lately so I put it up for sale. -
Absolutely. Second to Rhodes, I will always have an affinity for FM EPs and sounds in general.😎 -
Looking online yesterday after getting the e-mail about the big savings, I was really surprised to see just how small most of the discounts turned out to be. -
This does make me feel more secure about purchasing a new Model keyboard or module. I would like to have a Carbon 8M -
But only the 88 version. I would have gotten a Montage 6M to pair with my Fantom 7 if it was poly aftertouch. Instead I got the MODX+6 and the Hydrasynth Pro combination. I'm satisfied for now. I only need one keyboard with poly aftertouch. My Fantom 7 with the EX upgrade still resides as the anchor of my system and I am happy with it.
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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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