GX1 for sale

pretty

do videos exist of it?

like a demo video from the 70s or something?

lol?

tuss

There's vids of some Swedish dudes playing Benny's GX-1 if you care to google that. Not very impressive (in terms of their creativity).

Of course, you can always watch Benny playing it in the studio himself:

some beautiful pictures out there

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Holy crap, you can feed the ring mod a dedicated oscillator AND noise.

This thing just has SO MANY features...

Wait, does the switch say "rhythm"? You can synch the Ring mod to the drums?!?!?!? Fuck, that's the sound at the start of "GX-1 Solo" :)

Considering MOTM offers GX-1 filters as a module, I wonder how much cheaper you could build an MOTM system that covered the same ground, and how it would sound!

The tone cart programming thing is the coolest looking yet stupidest idea in the history of synth.

Also you can apparently trigger the S&H from the drums, assuming GX-1 solo is actually a GX-1, that would explain why the sample & hold filter mod changes with every hi-hat hit.

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  ten fingers ten toes said:

Considering MOTM offers GX-1 filters as a module, I wonder how much cheaper you could build an MOTM system that covered the same ground, and how it would sound!

 

The tone cart programming thing is the coolest looking yet stupidest idea in the history of synth.

You would need a LOT of modules to get 8 voice 2 VCO polyphony whit 4 part multitimbrality!

  analogue wings said:

  ten fingers ten toes said:

Considering MOTM offers GX-1 filters as a module, I wonder how much cheaper you could build an MOTM system that covered the same ground, and how it would sound!

 

The tone cart programming thing is the coolest looking yet stupidest idea in the histohttp://forum.watmm.com/index.php?act=Post&CODE=02&f=5&t=27750&qpid=586244

We Are The Music Makers Forums -> Replying in GX1 for salery of synth.

 

You would need a LOT of modules to get 8 voice 2 VCO polyphony whit 4 part multitimbrality!

It'd still come in cheaper than the 15,000 GBP starting bid! I think, and certainly less than it will finish, lol

Actually, for fun:

16x Ultra VCO - $7184

8x VC LFO - $1752

8x ADSR - $1592

8x mixer - $1672

16x GX-1 Filter - $5454 (2 per voice because the GX-1 uses 2 per voice to do resonant bandpass)

Amps, S&H, a couple more mixers, reverb - $1500

Comes out to $19500 or so, add in an 8 voice midi-cv and it's still well under the $30,000 starting bid.

Be interesting to hear it! At least you could tweak filter cutoff while it's playing.

Do all those modules respond to aftertouch and velocity?

How about the reverb unit and 4 tube powered hi fi amps?

Edit: ok you got the reverb.

What about the convenience of presets? :)

You can run aftertouch and velocity off of a dotcom CV keyboard, or you can have the midi-cv unit read them off of your midi keyboard, once you have the aftertouch/velo translated to voltage you can send it anywhere you want. Shit even my dotcom responds to velocity, I can have it affect anything.

Im not suggesting this would even sound alot like a GX1, but it would sound badass AND be a lot cheaper. Basically if I ran a drug cartel I wold own a GX-1 but likely under few other circumstances just for the availability of so many more useful options. You can't even change filter cutoff or adsr settings without opening the back of the unit and plugging in a programmer cartridge.

Yeah I'm just playing devil's advocate really (you would need DEDICATED CV ins for aftertouch and velocity on EVERYTHING you wanted to respond to them, btw).

I have a feeling the GX1 is more than the sum of its parts - if it were just a CS80 with speakers, people would be content with the CS80, and people obviously aren't. Playability is a huge factor in the popularity of the CS80 and the GX-1 has about triple the expression options.

Also, how cool would it be to build your own preset carts (just a bunch of resistors AFAIK) with little logic ICs to modulate those resistors. You could put a bluetooth radio in one and tweak your GX-1 from your laptop :)

You don't need dedicated CV in's for everything, you only need one CV in per perameter and then a mixer. I can mix together velocity + an envelope and route it to the CV in for filter cutoff and get a velocity AND envelope modded filter, for example.

I don't think playability is the huge factor, I mean it's pretty difficult to actually play. You have to be a good enough keyboardist to play 3 keyboards plus a pedalboard all at the same time! I think the big x factor is its rarity and notoriety, plus the sound. It's not just a CS-80, they have slight differences in voice architecture and filter design. I think a large part of that sound though is that very unique "dripping wet" filter. Hence the MOTM GX-1 filter'd monster modular idea.

That would be neat to make your own programming carts like that, but also a monumental amount of time. Plus, imagine getting resistance wrong and blowing up one of your GX-1 voice modules!

  analogue wings said:

There's vids of some Swedish dudes playing Benny's GX-1 if you care to google that. Not very impressive (in terms of their creativity).

 

Of course, you can always watch Benny playing it in the studio himself:

 

but there's no GX-1 in that song! It's a Melotron doing the classic riff and maybe a Minimoog on the bass line.

  Brian Tregaskin said:

some beautiful pictures out there

 

 

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  Filmography said:

# Madagascar: The Crate Escape (2008) (filming)

# The Dark Knight (2008) (filming)

# Frost/Nixon (2008) (post-production)

 

# The Simpsons Movie (2007)

# Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

... aka P.O.T.C. 3 (USA: promotional abbreviation)

... aka Pirates 3 (USA: informal short title)

# The Holiday (2006)

# Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

... aka P.O.T.C. 2 (USA: promotional abbreviation)

... aka Pirates 2 (USA: informal short title)

# The Da Vinci Code (2006)

# The Weather Man (2005)

# Kleine Eisbär 2 - Die geheimnisvolle Insel, Der (2005)

... aka The Little Polar Bear 2: The Mysterious Island (UK) (USA)

# Batman Begins (2005)

... aka Batman Begins: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version)

# Madagascar (2005)

# Spanglish (2004)

# Lauras Stern (2004)

... aka Laura's Star (UK)

# Shark Tale (2004)

# Thunderbirds (2004)

... aka Thunderbirds - Les sentinelles de l'air (France)

# King Arthur (2004)

... aka King Arthur: Director's Cut (USA: DVD title (director's cut))

# Something's Gotta Give (2003)

# The Last Samurai (2003)

... aka The Last Samurai: Bushidou (USA: poster title)

# Matchstick Men (2003)

# The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down' (2003) (V)

# Tears of the Sun (2003)

# Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey (2003) (V)

# Journey to Safety: Making 'Tears of the Sun' (2003) (V)

# The Ring (2002)

# Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)

... aka Spirit (USA: promotional title)

# Black Hawk Down (2001)

# Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

# Invincible (2001)

... aka Unbesiegbar (Germany)

# Breaking the Silence: The Making of 'Hannibal' (2001) (V)

# Pearl Harbor (2001)

... aka Pearl Harbour (UK: promotional title)

You know how much money he's probably gotten from Arturia for remember to say CS-80v?

I'm sure he said it for free. You can tell by his filmography he has a lot of integrity.

Music for film is music for film, I'd do it too if it meant getting paid millions to sit in my big ass studio and write music all day.

So, since the schematics are in the manual, why doesn't someone build a GX-1? Or at the very least, make a GX-1 voice card module for whatever flavor of modular they enjoy? The voice card is VCO, HP/LP VCF's, EG and VCA. You could likely fit all those functions on a 2 or possible 3 space MOTM or Dotcom panel. Maybe 4 spaces of a smaller format like eurorack. Why doesn't someone done this? Even for like $400 a piece I bet they'd sell well thanks to the mystique.