Seems anymore that the old analog gear just isnt worth the coin spent and all the headache of patch cords, midi cords, mixers, midi patch bay/switcher/routers and FX units all hooked up together in a maze of wiring.
I'm sure I'll get flamed for saying it, but the virtual instrument DAW's seem to be the way to go anymore for all my favorite sounds.
Don't get me wrong, I love my hardware gear. My HAWK 800 has a lot of value to me and I intend to keep it around, but I've about had it with this maze of wiring and conundrum of making everything work together.
I've got a pile of gear and it just sits there not being used since it's such a PITA to hook all of it up together and not take up an entire living room to do so.
I've decided I'm going to start liquidating some of my gear and head into the world of virtual synths. I've played around with a few good ones like Korg's MonoPoly and M1 softsynths.. I REALLY like the MonoPoly!
I recently also tried out Kontakt 5. Awesome sampler! Sure beats the hell outta getting scuzzied around with an Akai S2000! And it dont weigh 40 pounds and takes up 2 rack spaces(or half a tabletop)... along with the fat scsi cords, huge ass external CDROM and the Zip Drives to attach to it and have them taking up valuable space too.
Arturia has made a practically flawless rendition of a Jupiter 8. It sure beats spending thousands on some beast of a keyboard that takes up an area where a loveseat might go.
Like I said, dont get me wrong.. if I had it my way, I'd have all the classic synths on every wall in my house, if I could. But I dont have the coin, room, time or patience to own them all.
But I could fit quite a few of them inside a newer CPU'd PC. All of them easily tucked away with a mouse click..
I know.. it sounds so soulless. But after trying out for awhile, it has caught on with me.
It really has changed my outlook on gear. I no longer seem to have this insatiable desire to buy up old ass gear and then bang my head against it to get it to play nice with the rest of the gear.
Anymore I see a nice item for sale and think.. gee, it'd be nice to have that.. oh wait, I DO have that.. it's inside my PC!
Yes.. even the minimoog can be in there too.
Heck, Google gave us a free minimoog not too long ago for a day that came with a built in sequencer.
Times have changed so much since the 80's.. so very much.
-Blaine
--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Jason Adkins <jason_ralf808@...> wrote:
>
> Yeah the ASR10 is a beast,I used to have the EPS16+ so know how good
> they are.but would still rather have a midi Minimoog and an MS6 and an
> FZ-1.
> I agree with you about the MS6,programmable from the front panel and
> multi-timbral unlike the Matrix-1000 (but a pain up the proverbial
> like said) ,which were similar price at time although I think the
> Matrix-1000 was about £100 more and only mono-timbral and needed an
> Atari/PC to program it.
>
> I guess the Minimoog is love or hate,I love the Arp Odyssey more I
> used to have the single oscillator version the Axxe,its really
> funky,def what did Itchiban Scratch bassline,sorry a classic electro
> tune if you wondered what the hell I was on about. The Minibrute does
> a great impression of that bassline with compression.
>
> J
>
> On 23 Jun 2013, at 13:51, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
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> > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:49:01PM +0100, Jason Adkins wrote:
> > > Oh yes SE-1 Minimoog in a rack,my friend used to have a kenton midi
> > > retrofitted original Minimoog Model D,he swapped it and a Cheetah
> > > MS6 plus a Casio FZ1 for an ASR10 keyboard,I told him not to do
> > > it....
> > > But nobody listen's to a word I say.
> >
> > The ASR10 is a beast of a machine. I quite liked the FZ1, and I've
> > played about with an MS6 which is alright but has fairly horrible
> > software.
> >
> > Still not convinced by Minimoogs though. Maybe if they had a 12dB/
> > octave filter setting...?
> >
> > --
> > Gordonjcp MM0YEQ
> >
> >
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