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Re: To New User
2016-09-09 by napravobg@...
IMO the 25K is amazingly versatile (I have two which are maxed out with extra ROMs) as well as a PX7 also with full ROM compliment including Virtuoso Orch..
I've connected the EMUs into one big system, via the insert in's and out's and have ventured towards analogue modular territory, with some realy (in my opinion) convincing sonic results. The modulation sources and destinations of the 2500 are huge and amazingly versatile, as are the filters. If I want to, I can easily set up random noise generation and bleeps and squeeks and squarks and drones , with filters and envelopes opening up and closing all day long.. Sometimes I think it very hard to tell that these almost random and 'musique concrete' results don't come from an immensely expensive purely analogue Eurorack modular system..
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For Hammond, Oberheim and and ARP sounds, I bought a Casio XW-P1 (great value and fun synth) which I think compliments the 2500 superbly, and then an M-Audio Venom. (again rompler sound sources) Venoms go very cheap on e-Bay nowadays, and the Venom's Oberheim-like analogue brass-type sounds are excellent, (as are many of the other onboard sounds) and the very versatile editing software is easy to use.
The Venom doesn;'t have to be all grit and snarl, but of course it can be so, if you want. I have old school Kurzweil modules, also, a K2000r and two K1000r's and a K1200 88 x note synth, which I use as a master controller, and which has excellent aftertouch. I also have a Korg Trinity keyboard and a Triton rack, which are different again. The Kurzweils are very different to the 2500 (and to the Korgs) and are valuable for IMO expensive sounds, especially when compared to the very 'in your face ' Venom.
Recently, I bought Air Instruments 'Loom' as an additive virtual digital synth, and find that this addition gives me vast new collections of sounds that the P2500 cannot achieve.
However, as an all round and immensely editable rompler-based synth, there is IMO none better than the P2500. It was designed decades before its time, and is an amazing synth even today. EMU always knew how to do it and they did it superbly with their flagship 2500. Good luck with yours....
regards
richard
bg