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Subject: Re: [AN1x] va synth advice

From: Jeff <jf.serviere@...>
Date: 2010-09-25

Jerome St-Pierre a écrit :
> Hi Fabio,
>
> After hearing everyone's advice based on their experience, would it be
> possible to tell us about your OB12? Have you been satisfied of this synth
> so far?
>
> I am curious because it is a synth I'd like to pick if I see one for cheap.
>
And me too, i missed to buy one of the last remaining on a well known
online store, sold at half the price as a demo instrument. I've heard
about a lot of reliability issues and countless software updates, but
its look is awesome and the sounds seemed impressive. Not so common on
the second hand market...
> Thanks,
>
Thanks too !
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J.F.
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Peter Korsten<peter@...>wrote:
>
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>> Op 25-9-2010 4:36, somethingkillingyou schreef:
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>>> ...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.
>>
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>>> 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
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