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Subject: Re: [AN1x] va synth advice

From: Peter Korsten <peter@...>
Date: 2010-09-25

Op 25-9-2010 4:36, somethingkillingyou schreef:

> ...or maybe I'll wait for the new novation ultranova, which is compact, has a vocoder, and being also an audio interface has 2 inputs so I could connect one of my synths in it (I have no more channels free in my mixer and audio interface)... its only real limitation is mono-timbrality... but I think that with 3 osc, 'self' sync that use only one osc (like the an1x...), great mod matrix, 3 lfos and 6 env I could get pretty complex stuff anyway without layers... also, no keyboard split won't be that much of a problem anyway, in a 37 keys synth...

In the past, I was very interested in the Supernova, but a friend of
mine mentioned that you can actually hear the aliasing in the algorithm.

Now Novation may well have fixed this in the past 10 or so years, but
beware: specifications aren't everything when it comes to VA synths.

> I think I'll wait for it, before buying an an1x (unless a super deal occurs...)

The AN1x is just a very capable synth for not a lot of money. It doesn't
have dozens of polyphonic notes, but that's pretty useless anyway for a
analogue (whether real or virtual) synthesiser. There's a certain sound
to each synth, so to have four or five instances of that... it would
make more sense to expand the number of voices by acquiring a different
synth.

My wish list currently contains two synths:
∗ Nord Wave
∗ Arturia Origin

But since both cost about as much as I earn in a month after taxes, and
there are these things like mortgage and food for my family, they will
likely remain on that wish list for some time to come.

- Peter