NAMM 2010

  On 1/11/2010 at 7:37 PM, Awepittance said:

digital mellotron, doesn't that defeat the purpose?

I think it'll be exactly like the memotron (i.e. a combination of a really nice controller and a high quality sound bank) which is great if you want to play a mellotron, but don't want to deal with maintaining an old instrument .

yeah but wouldn't you be able to get the same functionality by using old tape bank recordings (which they now officially sell) from a mellotron on a nice sampling capable keyboard? or is it all about the nice looking case, if so i can understand that

It just makes about as much sense to me as selling a digital Optigan

  On 1/11/2010 at 8:59 PM, hahathhat said:

saw this today and thought of this thread.

 

be careful, we don't want to bait the angry metasonix company owner over to watmm again

Is that an all-tube midi-cv converter?

lol

yes no more manufacturer trolling plz.

I aways enjoy NAMM even if it's not always that great. Synths and audio equipment are what I love, and this is the time of year to hear about all the new/upcoming stuff (summer namm is more for guitars, pa's, stuff I like but is more meh).

NAMM was a lot more exciting in the waldorf, clavia, etc VA era cuz there were always new hardware synths coming out, and modular synths were just starting to really get popular again (though they have always been popular to an extent). Korg electribes sx, mx, I remember watching those vids from NAMM a million times while drooling. Same with Nord Modular g2, all the nord stuff, Doepefer, Elektron.

It's still fun though :)

  On 1/11/2010 at 9:41 PM, Awepittance said:

be careful, we don't want to bait the angry metasonix company owner over to watmm again

i didn't know that had happened. i demand to know the details (over PM if decency requires).

  On 1/12/2010 at 1:57 AM, hahathhat said:

  On 1/11/2010 at 9:41 PM, Awepittance said:

be careful, we don't want to bait the angry metasonix company owner over to watmm again

 

i didn't know that had happened. i demand to know the details (over PM if decency requires).

?

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/2375-the-metasonix-wretch-idm-in-a-box/page__view__findpost__p__784656

lol whops. guess it got lost in my brain along with the 1000 other pointless arguments i've had on this board

reading that thread was like routing a unipolar positive ramp LFO in trigger mode, to a LOL. A constant rise in level, until the end, where it suddenly drops to zero.

for the record, 99% of the shit i argue about here, i only care about in the 10mins i am composing post.

  On 1/9/2010 at 8:56 PM, Awepittance said:

i would be interested if any synth companies have actually put out a synth that harnesses unused synthesis technology in hardware like something that focuses on granular, physical modeling or additive synthesis. I'm really bored of subtractive synths.

I really hear you on that one. I've been building a lot of modular bits and pieces from totally cheap parts and they sound growly and gnarly as hell and that having screwed up generators/oscillators/sources makes the subtractive process a lot different.

What I'd like to see is a standalone analogue FM synth with good physical parameter control (i.e. no one-slider-only DX stuff)... especially with a lot of feedback possibilites. Oscillator, filter and amplifer FM would be awesome, especially if, for example, one could route the output of the filter section back into that of the oscillators.

^

not standalone per-se but it's a start I suppose.

  On 1/10/2010 at 7:28 AM, Awepittance said:

holy shit speak of the devil - ,spraaa the company that makes the 'ableton style' sequencer you describe also makes this tasty looking eurorack module -

 

 

seems like it's using some digital chips to do weird sequencing

ok, I got curious this morning, has anyone seen a review of this or the six-in-a-row anywhere? I don't even want one, I just want to read how it works with grammar that isn't inspired by german.

^Doepfer DIY kit

^New TI os...etc

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^and wishful thinking, gmedia's s.o.b. oberheim emu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUeQmXohwIE&feature=player_embedded

lol from vse...

  RobotHeroes said:

Analogue Haven's booth number is...1337

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  On 1/13/2010 at 2:00 AM, analogue wings said:

FenderPhone

 

 

u know the dark time excites you

  On 1/12/2010 at 6:53 PM, Brandi_B said:

^

 

not standalone per-se but it's a start I suppose.

Yeah, you can easily do that stuff in a modular scenario and Cynthia's Zeroscillator is a great little module, it's a shame the production has been so stop-start recently. However, I'd like to see that kind of architecture in a standalone keyboard-based setting.

lol@ the fender phone

is that metasonix midi->cv for real? wtf?

i will say, however, that the metasonix r51 tube vca has become my most important piece of euro gear.

there's gonna be some form of a micro mpc from akai

edit: no it's the abelton controller. smaller version.

  On 1/13/2010 at 8:43 PM, acidphakist said:

is that metasonix midi->cv for real? wtf?

 

i will say, however, that the metasonix r51 tube vca has become my most important piece of euro gear.

yeah metasonix makes good stuff