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<div dir="ltr" class="elementToProof" align="left"><span class="x_354391106-14062023">> I watched "some" of the video -- I found it a bit cringe, TBH.</span></div>
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Ditto</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="elementToProof" align="left"><span class="x_354391106-14062023">> So, did the synth in that video sound special to you? It sounded pretty "meh" to me (although it did certainly look very impressive).</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="elementToProof" align="left">Yeah. To me, my additive digital synth sounds far better in about one hundredth of the space and cost<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="elementToProof" align="left"><span class="x_354391106-14062023">> I'm more interested in the sound that Rick Wakeman achieves in his famous "Revealing Science of God" solo from Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans. I don't hear any of that
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Wakeman is master of the Mini-Moog. He says he can hear the sound it will make just by looking at the front panel before playing a note, though I've never understood how given how much variation there was in early editions.
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And by his own admission they are constantly breaking - I think he said he had a dozen at one point so that there were enough to last a tour.<br>
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