Hi Gene,
it is quite a stretch financially, but I kept both, my Animal and my Cwejman.
Totally different beasts complementing each other. Cwejman is extremely fast due to its
sensible pre-patched nature, the FM on the oscillators sounds extremely great, the filters
have a totally different character than the Serge VCFX, plus it does have ADSRs and a
built-in MIDI interface. My place to start to get classic, melodic, perhaps even cliche
synthesizer sounds fast, and be able to change between these comparatively fast (as fast
as one can on a non-storeable instrument). Downside: You have to patch pitch modulation
by envelope, the LFO sync is not really usable, and an additional modulation input on each
filter would come in really handy.
The Animal is more like a torture chamber for electrons, allowing extremely complex, self-
controlled sounds, it's VCM beats all Eurorack waveshapers (yes, even Bananalogue), the
SSG is wonderful source of randomness and staircase pattern, you get panning modulation
or a crossfader, the ability to get a damped sinewave from the VCFX when using its TRIG
IN is a small synthesizer in itself...etc. etc.
I play in a small ensemble with 2 colleagues.
http://www.myspace.com/kreisferkeerflaake
We improvise, our instruments being sync'd via MIDI clock. We shoot for more rhythmic
music, and four times out of five I am happy with just using my Cwejman being driven by
a S-N-D SAM-16 step sequencer. A fast and compact setup. But on the fifth time I turn to
my Serge (Animal, Custom Panel, TKB), it is more complex, my colleagues are always
already jamming away while I am still patching bananas, but the results I feel I would not
get with anything else.
I am not sure if that help, but I hope.
Best regards and a Happy New Year to all,
Jan-Hinnerk
it is quite a stretch financially, but I kept both, my Animal and my Cwejman.
Totally different beasts complementing each other. Cwejman is extremely fast due to its
sensible pre-patched nature, the FM on the oscillators sounds extremely great, the filters
have a totally different character than the Serge VCFX, plus it does have ADSRs and a
built-in MIDI interface. My place to start to get classic, melodic, perhaps even cliche
synthesizer sounds fast, and be able to change between these comparatively fast (as fast
as one can on a non-storeable instrument). Downside: You have to patch pitch modulation
by envelope, the LFO sync is not really usable, and an additional modulation input on each
filter would come in really handy.
The Animal is more like a torture chamber for electrons, allowing extremely complex, self-
controlled sounds, it's VCM beats all Eurorack waveshapers (yes, even Bananalogue), the
SSG is wonderful source of randomness and staircase pattern, you get panning modulation
or a crossfader, the ability to get a damped sinewave from the VCFX when using its TRIG
IN is a small synthesizer in itself...etc. etc.
I play in a small ensemble with 2 colleagues.
http://www.myspace.com/kreisferkeerflaake
We improvise, our instruments being sync'd via MIDI clock. We shoot for more rhythmic
music, and four times out of five I am happy with just using my Cwejman being driven by
a S-N-D SAM-16 step sequencer. A fast and compact setup. But on the fifth time I turn to
my Serge (Animal, Custom Panel, TKB), it is more complex, my colleagues are always
already jamming away while I am still patching bananas, but the results I feel I would not
get with anything else.
I am not sure if that help, but I hope.
Best regards and a Happy New Year to all,
Jan-Hinnerk
--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, Ancient Eyeball Recipe <implode7@...> wrote:
>
> I dunno. Anyone want to work out a trade? I'm most interested in an
> animal panel, but who knows?
>
> Gene
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