Hello,
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r_a_quirk@... wrote:
> this will be a late but I'm reading up:
> The part I like is "Note the Buchla Modular on top in the middle.
> This is his latest addition (which was used for only 1 sound on the
> latest album)."
> is that supposed to sound impressive? If he's going to spend $8K+
> (estimated) then he should know how to get more than one brilliant
> sound of a Buchla modular (unless it's just an invt or trying to be
> cool).
You don't know how much he uses it privately. Actually even producers of cheap
X0X dance music are often young and old synth freaks gaining some financial
compensation for pursuing their expensive passion while still being at the
knobs in some way.
Secondly, I would say that analog sound standards in Pop music have generally
been set by unison sawtooth chords, deliberate sweeping of resonant lowpass
filters and piano-like activated envelopes. Buchla instruments were rather
unpresumptive about such standards. Highly abstract operations can very
intuitively controlled, in return it may be more difficult to create sounds for
a mass market with Buchlas than with others.
> Did anyone see the article on Music Control in the latest Sound on
> Sound, and the bit about buying a VCS3 as an invt (it's worth more
> now than two years ago). I wouldn't think that someone could charge
> high prices on synths that are still available to buy new (i.e. EMS
> VCS3/AKS (minus sequencer & kybd) & Serge). There is a bit of wait,
> but you do a get some kind of guarantee and know that there's someone
> there to fix it.
Robin Wood did sell restored used Synthis until the price inflation in the
nineties.
I think the Music Control guarantee is max 3
> months, maybe longer for the Moog 3C, etc. Are people really willing
> to pay high prices on EMS stuff just to get the added sequencer
> (everyone I've known who's come into contact with it hasn't like it)?
I can think of at leat three reasons. If one wanted high end analog gear one
would not like EMS synths; they are liked because of the unpredictability which
the plenty of insufficiently buffered matrix inputs on each module cause the
unit to behave with, so any quirky tics a synth might develop during its
lifetime can be considered an enrichment on these. Other people pay dearly for
professionally circuitbent Speak'n'spells and Casios.
The Mark One models have features some people prefer to the Mark Two a.k.a.
Putney respectively Portabella Road models which are the units still built
today (there is for new ones a standard row of factory mods).
If one bought an AKS because of its portability one would usually appreciate
the integrated keyboard and sequencer.
Kind regards,
Sebastian Kuehnl
>
> Richard
>
> --- In SergeModular@y..., "Sebastian Kuehnl" <skuehnl@y...> wrote:
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