Synthesizers (non guitar, NIN Related)

[GoldenVulture]

Re: Synthesizers (non guitar, NIN Related)

Most of this modular stuff is all CV, no MIDI.

This whole thread is meant to be an exploration of everything synthesizer, so feel free to post links, videos, pictures, etc...

The link below " 80's demos and things " there's two tracks there done with my Polysix and DI guitar. G&S and S&GX2. Done with a Teac 4 track in about 84.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Synthesizers (non guitar, NIN Related)

The link below " 80's demos and things " there's two tracks there done with my Polysix and DI guitar. G&S and S&GX2. Done with a Teac 4 track in about 84.

Cool, I'll check it out!

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Synthesizers (non guitar, NIN Related)

I also really wanted a Jon Lord like organ "sound", until I discovered that all the Hammond sounds in even the better keyboards are hardwired to already have the modulation in the sound that should come from some expression hardware.

At the risk of pointing out the very obvious, on a Hammond B3/C3 tone wheel organ, the modulation effect is selected with the controls NOT introduced with key aftertouch. Variations in modulation rate are achieved with a knee operated lever.

Some Roland ROMpler synthesizers come with Hammond presets in which aftertouch alters the modulation rate. Convenient but, somehow, unnatural.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Synthesizers (non guitar, NIN Related)

Korg's Volca series, including the new Volca Sample. Very cool for dancey or electro stuff, not as good for ambient or indie stuff. Analog ones were a bit too simple for what I wanted (considering I don't have an external sequencer) but the Sample looks pretty cool.

 

[mamm]

Re: Synthesizers (non guitar, NIN Related)

I still have my Roland D-20 from the 80's. I dragged the thing all over when I was a teenager, playing in various cover bands.

Now it resides besides my DAW, being used almost everyday as my MIDI input device. I don't even know if the L/R line outs still work - the MIDI out is the only "hole" that sees "connector action" these days... lol

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Synthesizers (non guitar, NIN Related)

Considering the paucity of the sounds in the lower priced Roland Linear Arithmetic instruments, this is probably no great loss to humanity.

I know wherefore of I speak. I owned a D-110 for about six months and I knew how to program it.

I freely admit a bias towards Roland and against KORG digital synthesisers but even I have to admit that the M-1 dumped all over the D-50.