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RE: [Mellotronists] return of the clones

2007-06-08 by Pomeroy Ranch

The additive synthesis in the Synergy is an interesting opportunity for pushing the envelope – just think if these things had a decent Pentium/Motorola microprocessor instead of an archaic Toshiba Z80 chip…..

Vance

> I'm pretty sure that I never suggested the DX was a bad instrument.

Not at all... Remember when I said that with digital synths, after 25
to 40 years of digital music development that the best they can do is
to make bad copies of great instruments that are no longer in
production? I wanted to point out that the DX-7 is an exception to
that. The DX-7 was a digital synth that involved wicked creative use
of the technology, it wasn't trying to be a cheap copy of something
it's not, and that sort of character, innovation and joyful

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