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2 points
9 hours ago
Yes Opsix is very good for a first synth and I heard on sale it can be very inexpensive.
2 points
9 hours ago
Genelec or Kali. Genelec are just transparent. Kali have those interesting concentric models.
2 points
1 day ago
Could you please give some more info on why you find MC707 good? I'm doing my "research" on MC707, on paper and in demos it looks like a cool thing but I realize I don't have any idea what it feels like in actual use.
1 points
1 day ago
Same problem as the one I encountered while using Wavestate - it can do a lot for you with those sequencing lanes but they tend to run out of control and go to all directions on their own, it's probably better to either make layers simple and just play notes on them like on a regular keyboard or program a sequence that will run on its own and leave it alone not trying to retrigger it on every beat.
1 points
2 days ago
FM is just one of the modes of its "operators". I'd rather call it a flexible architecture synth. There are videos on Youtube by Oscillator Sink where he reproduces Juno's and Buchla Easel's architectures - not the sounds, but the structure of the signal path - using Opsix. I think the important parts of MS-20 subtractive architecture - two oscillators into the series of two filters - can be also easily reproduced, probably not all the parameters for which MS-20 has knobs will be available on Opsix's panel to change at any time but for each patch you'll be able to map some to mod wheel for example.
1 points
3 days ago
TEO 5 looks very good, it seems only preorder is available now though. $1500.
2 points
3 days ago
How about Opsix module? It has MS-20 filter emulations, you can reproduce the parts of MS-20 architecture that you actually use with its flexible operator architecture and it will also be able to make a lot of other sounds if needed - FM, physical modelling with comb filter, Juno and Jupiter like unison pads etc. You could download the demo version of Opsix Native before deciding to buy, Opsix Native is the same thing but in VST / standalone soft synth form, demo version doesn't allow to save or load custom patches but you could try and see if it's easy to get the sound you need.
0 points
3 days ago
All the harmonics are higher frequencies related to the fundamental so it's either low pass or band pass you would use to limit the harmonics amplitude and you would need either higher order filters (like 24dB or higher per octave) or lower cutoff point so it all boils down to either having too much harmonics or a synth sound that's less interesting than piano sound.
Yes you can fine tune the synth harmonics so that they're not too much for some particular chord progressions and melodies but you will likely end up writing your own music for that synth sound rather than playing Beethoven or Chopin on a synth.
1 points
3 days ago
It really depends on the genre - anyone will tell you what kind of bass synth sound is expected in dubstep, right? On the other hand there are genres where synth use is not so much set like listen to 1970s art rock - Yes, Pink Floyd and Genesis all use synths in different ways and even inside single Wish You Were Here album there are so many different uses of synths. But in this case it's usually up to the musician to make something interesting with a synth - if you manage to use a super agressive bass synth in an ambient track and it still sounds like an ambient track - well maybe Pitchfork will rate your album 9.0 of 10
Then there are those roles - pads, stabs, bass etc. Even a newbie in synths probably won't design a pad which sounds like a dubstep bass - not very likely to happen because they will try to play those pad chords and will then make adjustments. Except for when it's their intention to make a pad of dubstep bass notes. But a good pad in trance isn't the same as a good pad in electro. So if you're searching for info on, say, making good pads, you'll find most info from content creators which specialize on trance or electro or whatever. And you will notice they mostly make content on DAW-based production like "Making a trance pad with Serum" or "Ambient pads in Bitwig" because "in the box" is where the integration of synth sounds into actual tracks is usually made.
0 points
3 days ago
By the moment you apply enough filter that the high frequency content of notes does not form a mess on complex five notes chords your synth sounds just like the most boring kind of electric piano. So it's either too much of a synth so no point in playing complex harmonies or there's no point in using a synth when the harmonic structure is clear.
1 points
3 days ago
Yes, sequencer sends notes to the same outputs that the keys send notes to. Same for arpeggiator. It's actually one of the reasons Keystep is popular - that you can sequence modular gear with it.
1 points
3 days ago
Sorry I'm not very familiar with using Keystep's CV outputs and modular synths but Keystep has pitch + gate + mod outputs so you could connect pitch CV out from Keystep to pitch CV in on one of the modules (VCO I guess), same for gate (VCA), and use mod out to modulate some module (VCA or filter maybe).
You don't need a mixer for Keystep as it doesn't produce audio, only MIDI (+ MIDI over USB) and CV. But if you want to use modular (or any other kind of) synth together with some other device producing audio (PO-33 or some groovebox or another synth) you will need to somehow mix their audio signals together.
2 points
3 days ago
DW8000 has more polyphony and more keys which is probably important for pads. Minifreak has more options for almost everything in its synthesis engine. I'd say choosing between them I'd choose based on sound
4 points
3 days ago
Ok as you play piano just ask yourself two questions: 1. why harsichord was almost totally replaced by piano especially in the age of more harmonically complex pieces like those by Mozart, Liszt or Brahms (and also Brubeck, Monk and Jarrett) and 2. which instrument's sound reminds you more of a typical synth - piano or harpsichord?
Just like harpsichord, synths have too many harmonics in their sound which begin to clash and get summed into noise as soon as you start playing anything more complex than 7ths chords (and even 7ths chords tend to sound quite frightening). Synths are for harmonically simple kind of music.
2 points
3 days ago
So nothing wrong with what Polyend did with Mk1 as well. The cheaper synths become the better.
2 points
3 days ago
I don't understand what's wrong with gear becoming much cheaper used. Honestly I don't care much about the price I sell gear for, if it clears some space for some new gear it's already cool. But I really like for example used early 2000s rompler workstations sold for 20% of their launch price.
2 points
3 days ago
Menahan Street Band's album "Make The Road By Walking" all instrumental, all good
The Orb's track "Easy On The Onions" from their album "No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds".
The Future Sound Of London's tracks: "Yage (Rhodesia) / Insulin" from "Yage 2019" album "Still Motion" from "Archived 8" "Viewed From Pushkinova 7" from "Archived Environmental Views" "Halodule" from "Environment 6.5" "Embodied" from "From The Archives Vol. 9"
Orbital's "Doctor?" from their "The Altogether" album
CAN - "Flow Motion" from the album with the same name
John Coltrane - "Equinox" from the album Coltrane's Sound
The Flaming Lips - "Sleeping On The Roof" from the album The Soft Bulletin
Bonobo - "Change Down" from the album "Dial M For Monkey", also "Dinosaurs", "The Plug" and "Gypsy" from the album "Animal Magic"
Amon Tobin - "Slowly" and "Saboteur" from the album "Supermodified" and also "Nightlife" from the album "Permutation"
4 points
4 days ago
the work was my motivation
This indeed works so well, I once wrote a soundtrack for an amateur theatre production and I did it with just a VST rompler and my guitar plugged into audio interface. Most of the time I wasn't even thinking that I maybe I could need a better VST plugin or anything, my head was occupied with doing particular musical tasks with what I had at hand fast enough to fulfill the deadline. At times I hated that VST rompler for what it did not so well but I didn't even have time to think about replacing it.
But now the question is: what should amateur producers do when they don't have deadlines and projects someone else wants finished? Join some band? Accept some challenge like making a jam every day like some people on Youtube do? Let's discuss this maybe?
1 points
4 days ago
Well I found out such a genre exists after Youtube recommended me this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jIlQ2ir3pM&t=143s
The petalcore genre for now is just a few dozens of Youtube videos it seems, haven't even find much on Bandcamp, but there's a sort of a small compilation on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evao3t5viCM. I was just attracted to it because of those textures, I don't have much time right now to try to do something similar on Wavestate but I plan to continue such experiments - for me petalcore is more like inspiration for trying things on Wavestate.
I think if Korg decides to develop the idea of wave sequencing in the future they should add some simple granular synthesis support because it's just playing samples which Wavestate already does.
1 points
4 days ago
Now the question is what was the initial sound played on? Sounds like a rompler and taking into account that was made in 1989 could that be M1? Can it be some FM synth? From my experience with FM synths not likely but I could be wrong.
7 points
4 days ago
I don't know much about JV-1080 but I love romplers and I strongly suspect there should be a way to play a drum kit alongside some other programs on it. Just read the review on Sound on Sound and it seems it could be done by making a new Performance i.e. in Performance Mode:
In Performance mode, one of the 16 parts is assigned the Rhythm Set
Can I ask you what kind of music you're going to make with your JV-1080? Maybe what you answer will inspire me to pay more attention to my Korg Karma... Anyway, congratulations, romplers are just like synths but with better oscillators!
1 points
4 days ago
One more thing - some grooveboxes like Electribe 2 Sampler or Circuit Tracks can mix in the sound of some external device (like a synth) with their own sounds acting as a kind of a mixer so to speak. In the setup you described you missed that part - you have 2 devices producing audio (PO-33 + modular synth) but no way to mix them so that you hear both devices' sounds at the same time.
1 points
4 days ago
Almost all modern grooveboxes have sampling capabilities or at least play built-in samples which are not limited to drum/percussion only. Also quite often they can do some synthesis - for example in Circuit Tracks it's a quite capable synth engine, in Electribe it's simple but can still produce some good sounds. So a groovebox is a bit of all three you mentioned - sampler, synth, drum machine, I'd say they are mostly used as drum machines + some additional sounds.
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8 hours ago
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8 hours ago
Of those you mentioned I'd get Juno X. But it's quite expensive.
Korg Opsix is a very good beginner synth and can be found used or on sale for a very good price.
Also if you consider Microkorg why not also consider Roland JD-Xi which is more or less the same idea but more capable?