How do you know afx owns a GX-1?

How do you know afx owns a GX-1?

is it just word of mouth?

he bought it from me

It's not just word of mouth. He bought it from gordon reid www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb00/articles/yamahagx1.htm

  pelican said:

It's not just word of mouth. He bought it from gordon reid www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb00/articles/yamahagx1.htm

but there is no mention of aphex in this article

I know....they are friends and he bought it from him later

Bullshit thread

  pelican said:

I know....they are friends and he bought it from him later

is that info from an interview?

no, it is my firsthand knowledge

ghostbusters will have the answer

"Next month, we'll cast nostalgia aside and take a detailed look at the GX1 itself. Maybe we'll even discover what all the Tuss is about.."

they already knew it D:

i only heard of a gx1 since all the divs on here started talking about it after tuss

I think it comes from the Analogue Heaven list user 'panflet,' who was revealed as Richard D. James, talking in great detail about the GX-1.

  Tridact said:

I think it comes from the Analogue Heaven list user 'panflet,' who was revealed as Richard D. James, talking in great detail about the GX-1.

Link?

  o00o said:

How do you know afx owns a GX-1?

is it just word of mouth?

its word of an ass worshiping fan boys mouth gone through a feedback loop of fanboyism

  Caustic said:

  Tridact said:

I think it comes from the Analogue Heaven list user 'panflet,' who was revealed as Richard D. James, talking in great detail about the GX-1.

Link?

Go here:

http://search.retrosynth.com/ah/

Search for 'panflet.' Read the posts and see if you're convinced. Note that he signs off as Eric, but on one occasion slips with signing off as Richard when he wants to buy something from some one. I remember hearing that he'd bought a bunch of rare analog gear from members of that list around that time, which was right before the Analord series came out.

I'm not the world's biggest afx fan (I do love SAW vol. 1), but I'm a fan of analog synths and saw this stuff happening in that community when it was going on.

  Tridact said:

  Caustic said:

  Tridact said:

I think it comes from the Analogue Heaven list user 'panflet,' who was revealed as Richard D. James, talking in great detail about the GX-1.

Link?

 

 

Go here:

 

http://search.retrosynth.com/ah/

 

Search for 'panflet.' Read the posts and see if you're convinced. Note that he signs off as Eric, but on one occasion slips with signing off as Richard when he wants to buy something from some one. I remember hearing that he'd bought a bunch of rare analog gear from members of that list around that time, which was right before the Analord series came out.

 

I'm not the world's biggest afx fan (I do love SAW vol. 1), but I'm a fan of analog synths and saw this stuff happening in that community when it was going on.

is it not possible that someone very very clever wanted to hoax people into thikning he is ricard? Doing a stunt like this to the analogue heaven community could potentially have a top down pyramidal hoaxing cascade effect, since most laymen trust the word of an analog synth nut when it comes to Aphex factoids over a random poster. Im not saying that you yourself are pulling a hoax right now, but i am saying you might have been victim to one.

but really how do we know Tridact isn't panflet ?

  Tridact said:

Go here:

 

http://search.retrosynth.com/ah/

 

Search for 'panflet.' Read the posts and see if you're convinced. Note that he signs off as Eric, but on one occasion slips with signing off as Richard when he wants to buy something from some one. I remember hearing that he'd bought a bunch of rare analog gear from members of that list around that time, which was right before the Analord series came out.

 

I'm not the world's biggest afx fan (I do love SAW vol. 1), but I'm a fan of analog synths and saw this stuff happening in that community when it was going on.

Interesting read,this.

Thanks.

Eric

I thought this was old news. Google search panflet and afx or aphex or analogue and see for yourself. It's already been on a lot of other message boards.

I never thought posting that would cause some one to suggest that I was him. That's pretty funny. I don't know that much about synths. Could be a hoax, but it would be a good hoax.

  Tridact said:

Could be a hoax, but it would be a good hoax.

glad we're on the same page

the real question isn't about whether or not he has a gx-1....the real question is.

.........does he have just 1 .... or 2 ... or those boxes to sequence?

I find it hard to imagine Richard sitting behind the GX-1, more suited to Stevie Wonder I think.......

i wish i knew more about this type of equipment :-/

who cares?

here are soem of my favourites

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Me and my friends used to have a 303,606 linked up to the cassette

adapter and drive around for live acid trax,

These days though its dj on the laptop thru an [analog]fm transmitter to

the car radio and anyone else in the near vicinity.

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Being lucky enough to have one I have to tell you that you are wrong

twice,there is a sequencer on the gx1!! I haven't read about it anywhere

else so now you know .

And you can actually change the parameters really easily while the

cartridges are plugged in!

Just stick up a list of all the parameters against numbers by your gx1

Then just adjust each one as required with a screwdriver.

If you select patch 10 on each of the synths then the cartridges at the

front can be reached easily ,after awhile you learn the numbers easily

like pwm is number 14 etc

Then you are programming the presets directly and do not need the tone

board or the programmer,decent.

 

You can feed any of the drum instruments to trigger the solo synth!

E.g every time the kick drum sounds or the Hihat etc the solo synth can

be triggered which actually gives you untold pattern possibilities if

you combine the drum pattern selectors.

 

Then you can either manually play the key you want with it being

triggered in sync.

Or just let it trigger automatically.

Also the same drum instrument pattern is fed into a s/h which in turn

can randomly select the pitch of the solo synth and the cut off

frequency of both filters, with varying amounts ,sliders for each.

Instant acid and from the 70`s!

if only keith emerson has used it this way!

Instead of that fanfare for the common prick stuff.

Dance music history would have been completely different

**smile**

 

[Gordon Reid says that the drum machine is crap,this is understandable

for someone from his era [sorry Gordon] but let me tell you this is

probably on e of the best analogue drum machines ever,the cymbal is so

sexy and the snare can actually be very realistic for an analogue

machine,I love it

The kick is huge especially through the valve amps.]

 

You can also feed this s/h output into the lower and upper synths

simultaneously and set it to control randomly and in sync with the solo

synth trigger and drum machine, pitch deviation,loudness and filter

cutoffs

So that's 6 filters it can be changing at once.

But you cant trigger the notes or the pedal,shame,will be my first

attempted mod which hopefully will allow different drum sounds from the

solo synth to be selected for triggering....

 

Then at the flick of a few more switches you can set the lfo speed of

the lower and upper manuals to come from the pitch of the solo synth,its

pretty mental how complex this beast is,much more than I expected.

And then don't forget the brilliant swing/humanise feature which will

effect all of the above.

 

Ideally you need 7 programmers for the gx1 to save unplugging and

plugging them into the synth you want to change all the time.

I have 2 which is brilliant because either the lower,upper,or pedals has

actually 2 separate synths for each and being able to plug 2 programmers

in simultaneously to work on your patch is so much better.

Got the second one on ebay for a few hundred $

When you get good at programming the cartridges it takes a few minutes

to translate it to 1 preset although muiltiply that by 7 for below

What can sound indescribable is when you have all 7 synths set to the

same sound,especially the pedals as they have an extra oscillator,

Didn't mean this to go on so long but this machine is deep and I could

go on for ages...

 

A midi`d gx1 would really be an incredibly lush rich/full analogue setup

As you could have 7 synths controlled individually.

Anyone want to come and customise mine?

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es I have this and played speedcore to my money plant for 2 hours and

its turned into a triffid

 

Eric

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fortunately, techno has moved on since those days. i'm not a particluar

rave-o-holic, but i can see how Drew's stuff would get a rave rocking.

Detroit techno is now just a sub-genbre of techno, most of what's made today

doesn't sound like Detroit 1989 at all.

 

r./

(who hasn't made any techno since 1996..;-)

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Apart from electrocuting yourself what possible way could you kill

yourself with an analog synth?

Ive got a rack of modular behind my head and the shelf looks pretty

sketchy ,id hate to die under a load of modules.

Maybe you could make up an elaborate modular patch to die..killed by an

envelope generator with a really long attack.

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my last girlfriend had great hardware but the user interface was a bit

ropey and there was no possibility of a software upgrade.

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http://www.perkristian.net/images/Studio_E310-U_0.jpgBR>

I have got an eminent f217 and it fucks up and does an impression of

xenakis s.709 but through that chorus effect,it rules.

Eric

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Ok I agree for dynamic and timbral complexity etc synths have a hard job

matching an orchestra/real instrument etc

 

But

 

Orchestral instruments aren't as punchy as synths either and unless you

have contact mikes on the instruments they don't sound as in your face

either which Is one particular thing I like about electronic music.

 

Also one lonely person without any friends [like most of the people on

this list] [only joking] can control a bank of modules or synths.

 

 

But we love the sound of synths so the best thing is to have both,

Synths and and orchestra/real instruments

Massive modular,multitrack and an orchestra,real reverbs,lush outboard

There are loads of concrete,tape music records out there with both

anyway and I like the combo a lot that's if I like the

compositions...just a thought or 2

 

Eric

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anyone want to donate their korg ms20 legacy

controller to me so i can gut it and put a real ms20

inside it? i like the idea of a 3/4 size ms20 that is

100% functional

 

seth

 

nice idea but be better if it was both

then you could really do some good comparisons and it probably would

sound pretty fab ,emulation on top of real.

And you could say make the audio from the ms20 go up the usb cable to

the computer and any sound from the computer inc the emulated ms20 back

down the usb into the real ms20 for processing etc...hmmm

 

eric

on the mc-4

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You can patch in any one or a combination of the output channels or any

other interesting voltage into the tempo cv input for programmable swing or

other mental voltage controlled tempo changes,lots of fun when you have

loads of things running off it,especially when channels are different loop

lengths.

global tune is nice and so are the programmable triggers.

This machine makes you work in a certain way,which you wouldnt get from a

lot of other sequencers.

Its a deep box when you get to know it,has loads of tricks up its sleeve..

Also when you are making trax on it ,it can make you think you are in a

weird taxi journey.

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fortunately, techno has moved on since those days. i'm not a particluar

rave-o-holic, but i can see how Drew's stuff would get a rave rocking.

Detroit techno is now just a sub-genbre of techno, most of what's made today

doesn't sound like Detroit 1989 at all.

 

r./

(who hasn't made any techno since 1996..;-)

The above quote wasn't richard...

did u you meant this one:

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you should go and listen to some techno by the people who invented it

 

early detroit techno like:

derrick may,

kevin`maser reese`saunderson

model500,

blake baxter

 

 

because those demos are truly awful and give the word techno an even badder

name,sorry to crush your vibe,i know you just started but do a bit of

research and do us all a favour

eric