Yup, pretty well behaved bunch :-) My goal is to outrace the number of
members by the number of synths I own. I'm still down by about a 1:5 ratio
so I have some work ahead. I just got the DK600 working that has been
setting here dead a long time...like Iposted somewhere...cpu died for no
known reason after cleaning up a battery spill just a little better...ouch.
Kept working that area over and found a trace that was falling apart and
stuff but no avail until I swapped the module's cpu into it!
Still a problem. Anyone familiar with these units. I have a feeling
this might be normal. My Chroma Polaris can produce artifacts of this
nature. PWM synths can have trouble it seems filtering out crackle pops
from the waveform transitions interacting with things. On the Siel I get,
on some sounds, some annoying baseline noise....snap crackle pop pre filter
noise. Sometimes resonance seems to enhance it. Other times not.
Sometimes it seems 100% tied to the pwm knob positions (whether or not they
are even selected via the osc select switches!) sometimes not...strongest
correlation to date seems to be the Keyboard Tracking switch being on! Very
strange.
In the Chroma Polaris it's more got to do with changes in pwm related
sliders giving not so smooth sounding transitions, and artifacts in envelope
movements when 'sync' is used. Overall the Siel is actually a much
smoother machine! Especially in the resonance (which on the chroma amounts
to an 8 position switch giving a very sudden transition to resonance. Ouch.
The nice thing of course is they all send MIDI data. Just...wish they'd
left resonance NOT sending midi data and being smooth..or at least having a
switch to bypass that and go direct to the filters resonance bus :-) )
control. But of course the chroma polaris has a lot of attributes that make
it uniquely valuable in performance as well. Of the two I think I'd still
have to stick with it as the favorite at this point. But the Siel has two
sets of lfo control and all that is really well implemented so for sci fi
type sounds you really can't beat it for the price! (Traded a 150 trumpet
for it and the module. Anybody need spare parts? Parting out the module if
I can't find a cpu. Lots of valuable chips in there. 8x ssm2044, ssm2056,
ssm2024, LM3406 or whatever those transistor arrays are, etc. )
And also I got a great deal on a Korg DSS-1 the other day after a futile
attempt to fix the tone generator board on one that was given to me dead.
It has a good floppy and the one I am getting has a bad one...60 bucks.
Very underrated synth. Cost about 2800 bucks new. Very warm/rare njm
filters. Don't know of another board that used the njm2069 combo chips.
anyone else?
12 bit sampler/harmonic editing via sliders keyboard. Dual digital
controlled delay boards. Lots of circuitry in these things for a lot of
depth in the sound. Really wanted one when they were new and I probably
wound up having that very board I drooled over given to me. (Checked
between the keys and..yup, my slobbers were right there where I left them!
:-) ) Seriously though it came from a used gear store where I was from.
Hehe. -Bob
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Subject: [oldsynths] OLDSYNTHS hits over 100 members
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