>From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
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>Thanks for the report! I bet those '420s will shame the D. stuff.
Well, to be honest, I've been playing with the 420 for a day now, and,
while it totally rules, I still like the Doepfer A-121 quite a bit. It's
just a different sound, hard to describe without resorting to silly
adjectives.
And there are certain other Doepfer aspects that I like, for instance, the
oscillators have a rotary switch to set the octave. In my live setup, I
used the D. osc's for "tonal" sounds and the 300 as both a control voltage
(to the 120 and ring mod) and a semi-random pitch source. I like being able
to manually sweep from LFO to supersonic range with the 300, but the D.
design makes it easier to do conventional musical lines.
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>And the knobs are where you expect them to be!
That's most true!
I am most thouroughly enjoying the 420, I love the FM1 -/+ control! And it
just sounds amazing, looking forward to building the 2nd soon!
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Dave Trenkel :
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"...there will come a day when you won't have to use
gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in
your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper
type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em
together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em
together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire."
-Sun Ra
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