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By ElmerJFudd · Posted
My guess was that there would be a rejection of tech in the most popular of popular styles in music at some point. It seemed inevitable given the cyclical nature of these things. But decades have passed now and instead it seems we just have a so much music being created in every imaginable style and most of it has no sign of ditching processed instruments, time and pitch corrected vocals, programmed beats and loops, synthy timbres. 🤷♂️ Synths - hardware or software. Amp and fx modeling, generated harmony vocals, etc. it’s just here to stay for the foreseeable future. Arrangements produced entirely in the box or sequencing “noise boxes” with usb or mini MIDI cables. That’s where we’re at. The biggest shift we’re likely to see is the top 5 songs on the chart all either AI created or assisted. -
Is there no Arduino editor environment, web or iOS/Android app, where a kind if GUI "form" could be implemented and with that, fix this once and for all and make the setup process fool proof even for people who have no clue about these things, kind of like Visual Basic/ Excel VBA forms ? -
All you need is a Yamaha CP70/80, a Rhodes and a Wurlitzer, and proper amplification for those, a Hammond with Leslie, a string machine, a DX7, a polyphonic analogue synth or two, a Minimoog, and probably it'd be good to have a Hohner Clavinet as well, and then you should be fairly well prepared for most gigs, unless you play symphonic rock and also need a Mellotron that is of course! We're very spoiled these days, luckily!
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I'm one of those, I even put it that way--that I'm looking over the set list thinking of patches where i can use my Summit The thing is, if you get a tune where it fits, it kills. It's super fun to play. It helps if your other keyboard is a do-everything one, so that means your synth (or clone, or vocoder string machine etc) is sort of icing on the cake if you don't mind doing most songs on the main one. All that said, I'm leaning toward a Fantom for my 2nd board if I can sell a couple things. I played a Fantom-0 and the synth tones were great, and they should be even better on the big daddy with more engines and the optional EX upgrade. The Summit might be moving on, I really like it but someone else, especially someone with a hardware studio, will get more use from it.
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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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