ReBirth

[Jim Johnson]

>Sorry if I was insulting, but people who think like you do deserve a
severe
>bloody spanking with a spiked baseball bat.

Ouch.

But more to the point... how do you think Rebirth could be better? What's
wrong with it (other than the sterile-sounding filters and worthless
distortion?) Would a more versatile synth architecture help? More voices? A
Moog logo? :')

Your opinion _is_ valued!

Jim Johnson 
Metaphoric Software
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Makers of Techno Toys
Software for Electronic Music
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On 11/13/98, at 12:12 AM, Justin Case wrote: 

>Bill Layer wrote:
>
>> Hey All,
>>
>> Forgive me if I'm just old news, but has anyone played with the ReBirth
>> synth software package from Propellerhead?
>>
>> ReBirth is a virtual, real-time emulator for three vintage Roland
pieces.
>> I'd tell you their names, but I just don't know Roland. Basically a bass
>> synth/seq and two drum machines.
>>
>> Anyway, it's an awesome implementation. Very cool controls; the GUI is
>> really a piece of work! I downloaded the trial version (it's a full
>> version, but quits after 15 minutes... any hackers out there looking for
an
>> easy mark?) and spent two hours just running it, and tweeaking the
controls.
>>
>> More music than I've made in a year! Does anyone know of a kracked
>> version??? Is it alright to say kracked??
>>
>> I wouldn't mention a krack, but the cost is just stupid. $179.00!!!
>
>First, the software.
>Rebirth basically *sucks*. I have real 303/808/909 and Rebirth doesn't
come
>close to being lightyears away from being halfway there.  Of course, if
taken as
>a non-emulator software it is a amazing piece of software, although *VERY*
>limited. Two 'basic' drummachines with 2 monosynth monoosc bassline
machines
>with an awful distortion, useless compressor and *very* digital-sounding
BPF/LPF
>is all but obsolete. You can't get *any* fatness/crispiness out of
rebirth. The
>only nice thing I may be able to say about ti is the addition of a Shuffle
>function on the 303, something the original machine does not have. I
mainly use
>it to save 303 patterns. I read them off my real 303 and enter them into
>Rebirth. Then save them on my computer, sadly Rebirth doesn't support
other time
>notation than On/Off. MIDI Sync is a real joke on rebirth too if you'd
ever
>wanna sync it up to some sequencer. Either it lags, or keeps jumping
steps. I
>have tried to sync it to my 707/808/909/dr550 without ever being able to
get a
>steady rhytm.
>
>Second, YOU.
>Basically, you s... err no.. that would be impolite. I don't have nothing
>against people using/trading pirated softwares, I have used those before
and may
>use them in the future if it prooves to be the best solution for me. I
often try
>out softwares this way, I get the pirated version, judge for myself if its
worth
>it, then go buy the original if I really have a use for the software. I do
that
>because demo versions always suck. But when I do use a program I BUY IT.
And so
>should you. If 179$ is too much money to compose 'more music than you made
in a
>whole year' then you need therapy. And Rebirth offers you the closest
emulator
>to the real thing for 3 *VINTAGE* (read: more than 1000$us for each
machine)
>piece of gear. Get real man, if you like it/use it, BUY IT.
>
>Third, my attitude.
>Sorry if I was insulting, but people who think like you do deserve a
severe
>bloody spanking with a spiked baseball bat.
>
>Jimmy