Behringer just announced a polyphonic Model D/Minimoog that looks close to the size of an original.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 25 November 2019 07:50 (four years ago) link
My main problem with the glut of Behringer stuff is that I don’t have any space left to put it, but this looks very cool.
I’ve ordered a Mutable Instruments Elements in the pre-Black-Friday sales and look forward to making lots of exciting plonking noises.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Monday, 25 November 2019 12:00 (four years ago) link
The behringer poly D is actually paraphonic not polyphonic apparently
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 November 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
a local seller in town had a roland s-10 sampler up for grabs, I couldn't resist! exactly the sort of chunky early sampling I wanted
here's a quick track I made using samples I created with the volca FM:
https://soundcloud.com/momotaropeachboy/11-26a
― clouds, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
love those sounds
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
This inspired me to look up the Roland S-10, and then quickly download a 12 bit sampler emulation vst :)
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
glad you liked Jordan!
― clouds, Thursday, 28 November 2019 23:33 (four years ago) link
Signal Sounds has the Volca Modular and Volca Drum half price.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Friday, 29 November 2019 11:57 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0_q8XLiW7U
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 29 November 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
I ended up getting an Intellijel Plonk to go with Elements and a second Mutable Instruments Yarns to sequence both via my Digitakt.
I simply don’t have any room for non-modular gear atm but Novation have some good discounts:
https://store.focusrite.com/en-gb/categories/black-friday-2019
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Saturday, 30 November 2019 09:53 (four years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/Qxyr1m8P/419-BC452-3-F79-4986-87-C8-683-B741-DB2-BD.png
My current setup, and unlikely to change for a while - though there is space to expand.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
what all modules are you using?
― clouds, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/zvY6bszS/4-EDD00-BD-BF05-4-D0-D-926-A-9-D4-FC5494346.jpg
^ though the Polivoks filter is from ELTA rather than Malekko.
Lots of Mutable Instruments, as I love their whole approach, and a bunch of Doepfer.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
so fancy, but what does it sound like?
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
Anything you want it to! I’ll have to put something on Soundcloud.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
Are eurorack modules all meant for monophonic stuff, or are there polyphonic modules?
― DJI, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
New board description (for "I Love Modular")
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
(sorry couldn't resist, it's just the stereotype of constantly generating but not finishing anything...your setup is really impressive, I'm just always looking for the practical application when it comes to gear)
Ha! No, that’s absolutely correct. I’m terrible at finishing stuff anyway so can’t blame the synth.
Xps, most Eurorack stuff is monophonic, though you can get some poly modules, like the new Doepfer stuff here:
https://www.gearnews.com/need-polyphony-in-your-rack-doepfer-polyphonic-eurorack-modules-now-available/
You can also do chords from a single trigger with some.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
I wound up buying a few modules used (a Batumi, a Pamela's New Workout and a Music Thing Radio Music) but almost immediately shelved the idea when I started contemplating the all-in cost with the modules I planned out on modulargrid. Maybe someday it will be feasible but currently not so much.
Enjoying VCV Rack more since I decided to start completely ignoring anything with a bad GUI/small knobs no matter what it does.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 5 December 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
i'm really fixated on the idea of doing a 32hp dirty little monosynth modular rig; leave the effects and other fanciness to pedals
― clouds, Sunday, 8 December 2019 05:11 (four years ago) link
I was kind of looking at the opposite - the effects are where modular is interesting to me, Make Noise stuff like the Mimeophon, Erbe-Verb and Morphagene go places that pedals can't.
(The Make Noise shared system is only, uh, $4500...)
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Sunday, 8 December 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
that's a cool approach too!
― clouds, Monday, 9 December 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
I got an Ensoniq EPS-16+ off OfferUp for $100- shockingly everything works, menus are understandable and the built-in '80s delay & reverb is surprisingly good.
Came with one disk with a super cheesy Steinway sample and a "Hipness" drum kit that does not appear to have a kick.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 12 December 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
Does that one have polyphonic AT?
― DJI, Friday, 13 December 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
I think so. Keyboard is really nice - pretty light and not quiet at all but it feels way better than the sub-$500 MIDI controllers at Guitar Center.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 13 December 2019 01:22 (four years ago) link
My first synth/workstation (in high school) was an ESQ-1, so I have a soft spot for Ensoniq gear. I had a KS-32 for a while but lent it to a friend a while back and never got it back from him.
― DJI, Friday, 13 December 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link
I finally got a Volca Fm, and I'm happily using the presets while messing with the velocity and algorithms (while just as happily not learning anything about fm synthesis).
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 15 December 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
So the Microfreak is fun for easy & quick modulations, especially getting pitch-bending sounds, but it just doesn't sound great in a mix? I feel like I have to either add a pile of effects to make it plausible, or I end up replacing it with samples or a different synth. Not universally true, but it can have a quality that's a little aggressive and brittle/thin.
With the Volca FM, on the other hand, I almost feel bad that I'm barely doing any processing to the sound. It just sounds great raw.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 16 December 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
you can get some wild sounds once you mess with the EG settings, but i usually just play mildly tweaked presets through fx
― clouds, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:22 (four years ago) link
The latest Behringer clone is unexpectedly the Octave CAT
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2019/12/31/behringer-cat-synthesizer-clone-first-look/
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
just got my brand new benjolin in from derek holzer, hoping this will provide motivation to actually set up my studio space in the apartment i moved into like six months ago.
― adam, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
good iPad synth things lately:AudioDamage Quanta - the only granular synth where I can get what it's doing rather than just turn every sample into noise or an atmospheric padApeSoft Sparkle - resynthesizes two samples so that one takes on the qualities of the other
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 3 January 2020 10:31 (four years ago) link
behringer is just shitting out synths like week-old sushi
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Saturday, 4 January 2020 06:29 (four years ago) link
Arp (Korg) teasing something that comes in a big box and has patch cables. Rumors of a Karp 2600 as per Jean Michael Jarre? Will probably cost less than what I paid to get my vintage one fixed last year.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 4 January 2020 06:45 (four years ago) link
always teasing something that comes in a big box
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Saturday, 4 January 2020 07:20 (four years ago) link
i feel like all that chinese sweatshop-built behringer mass-produced crap will break within a year
― clouds, Saturday, 4 January 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link
If the build quality is like their guitar pedals, then yes.
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 4 January 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
The construction of the Model D and Neutron seem perfectly fine, the DeepMind has been out for several years now.Behringer has some shitty business practices but it's not like all the current Korgs and Rolands aren't being built in the same sweatshop factories.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 4 January 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
does anyone make an affordable tactile sampler a la the dr. sample anymore
― na (NA), Saturday, 4 January 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
Roland still makes an updated version afaik (SP404).
― ShariVari, Saturday, 4 January 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
fun. what about the maschine/maschine mikro? has anyone here used those? i don't really want to be tethered to a computer and the mikro looks hard to use without having it plugged into a laptop
― na (NA), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
yeah looks like those and the elektron model:samples require using a DAW to edit samples or sequence effectively
― na (NA), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
i had a volca sample for a while, it was kind of a nightmare to load samples into (via iphone app) but once that's done it's pretty self contained
― adam, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
The Elektron:Samples feels super crappy for the price - the buttons are squishy and the knobs aren't very responsive.The Maschines are completely unusable without a computer I think.
Maybe a MPC 1000? I see them pop up locally for $400ish sometimes, they're usually listed for more online.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:55 (four years ago) link
the roland sp seems like the best bet, i might just save up for a digitakt though
― clouds, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa3STYcrFAclol suck it Behringer
― just another country (snoball), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link
That thing is a beast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8NVBHmQfRw
― DJI, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
yeah it looks amazing
― clouds, Thursday, 9 January 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
so i am a guitar caveman but had a chance to mess around with the Jupiter-Xm at CES and holy shit... i had no making music could be so EASY. i think i've been turned out lol. price of entry is a bit steep but between that and the wavestate i feel like i might be selling a guitar in the near future
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link