Members Tusks Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 What's your favorite synth interface? What about it "worked" for you? Was it perhaps a simple monosynth that allowed you get immediate access to sounds? Or was it perhaps a MIDI-ed monster with two keyboards, 3 knob banks, and some unusual controllers tacked on? Or was it something else? What was unique about it? How did the interface reconcile immediacy with depth - for you? What kinds of articulations/gestures did it make possible? Thanks for sharing, Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pighood Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 JP-8000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ahfinn Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Minimoog. Everything is right there in front of you. It's almost impossible to get a bad sound out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xavios Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Novation kstation, or ks series. It has a wonderful round sound, and its sooo easy to program. I own a nova, which has great sounds, but the oscillator section controls annoy me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mytee2.0 Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 minimoog, nord lead 1/2/3, ion, machinedrum, monomachine DX7.... I kid, I kid.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mytee2.0 Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Originally posted by xavios ...but the oscillator section controls annoy me. I hated the {censored} out of it to. But it grows on you. Now I love it and think the whole nova/supernova2 interface is ingenious very easy to do things that normaly take a lot of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beermaster Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Nord Lead 3 - Blows all the others out of the water, Asssigning mod sources and destionation and haveing all the amounts lite up on each dial is a Breaze ! - puch and hold the source, twist the destinaion dial and watch the increase in leds on the dial, the pitch bender stick is very organinc - the 'programing ' of new sounds is a so obvious and simple yet dense and exciting too Love this synth for making sounds - just wish the A6 had this simp-licity ! Beer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Audacity Works Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 For how deep it is, V-Synth. Extremely easy to get around. It just begs you to mess with stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members eminor9 Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 WYSIWYG, immediacy is my main aim ...Gear that has drastically improved workflow:Elektron Machinedrum for beats & pieces Clavia Nord Lead 2x for digital goodnessRoland Fantom FA-76 for rompler purposesSequencing with MD & Fantom (synced with Fantom as master) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flat earth Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Oberheim OB12. Makes my JD800 feel like a DX7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members orangefunk Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Originally posted by The Audacity Works For how deep it is, V-Synth. Extremely easy to get around. It just begs you to mess with stuff. +1000 I just wish it had more memory and more polyphony. One thing I've got into is sampling solo choirboy phrases and then messing around with variphrase and playing the keyboard to get it coming back as a full on choir in sync with one another... talk about an idea machine.. this thing rocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hobbes Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Nord Stage 88, and basically all other Clavia products Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tusks Posted November 21, 2005 Author Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Kewl. Keep it coming. What's so funny about the Novation oscillator section? What does it let you do, and not do? The only thing I have against the NL3 is that they didn't put a delay on it. Sure you can buy pristine outboard efx, but for live use, mid-ing up and controlling an external processor is convoluted. Apart from that it butters my toast. YMMV. Agree that having a 100% sweet spot (as in the Mini) is the ideal. I do think the NL3 comes very close to that. The original NL was closer to my ears. But is the Mini an ideal because it defined the instrument? Or to put it another way, what are the interface features that we added post Mini that people would consider a necessity in a modern synth? I would say velocity sensitivity and aftertouch are the big two. Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members eminor9 Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Originally posted by Tusks Kewl. Keep it coming. The only thing I have against the NL3 is that they didn't put a delay on it. Sure you can buy pristine outboard efx, but for live use, mid-ing up and controlling an external processor is convoluted. Apart from that it butters my toast. YMMV. Line 6 DL 4 -> tempo tap Sweet as pie & easy as hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pix Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 I really like the Q keyboard interface. It's the best blend of deep arquitecture with intuitive and fast interface (in my opinion that is). Elektron has the most intuitive sequencers. Mono analogs for that 1 on 1 intimacy. I'd love to try a v-synth one of these days.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members J3RK Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Microwave XTQIONMonoMachineAnything ModularVoyager (Haven't owned this one.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members carbon111 Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Originally posted by Beermaster Nord Lead 3 - Blows all the others out of the water, Asssigning mod sources and destionation and haveing all the amounts lite up on each dial is a Breaze ! - puch and hold the source, twist the destinaion dial and watch the increase in leds on the dial, the pitch bender stick is very organinc - the 'programing ' of new sounds is a so obvious and simple yet dense and exciting too Love this synth for making sounds - just wish the A6 had this simp-licity ! Beer Couldn't agree more on all the above points. Its a joy to program! Though the NL3 isn't the best-sounding synth in my arsenal, its not too shabby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HuskerDude Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Modulars always make the most sense to me. Esp. if you have multicolored cables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members greenshag Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Originally posted by The Audacity Works For how deep it is, V-Synth. Extremely easy to get around. It just begs you to mess with stuff. v-synth for me as well.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members program_insect Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 SidStation: Programming a 20-year old chip with a telephone keypad always puts me in the mood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tusks Posted November 21, 2005 Author Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Hey, its got 4 knobs and a dial too. Sure they are good for something. Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tusks Posted November 21, 2005 Author Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Originally posted by HuskerDude Modulars always make the most sense to me. Esp. if you have multicolored cables. So, um where's the keyboard? Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tusks Posted November 21, 2005 Author Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Never mind. It's here. http://www.analoguesystems.co.uk/Reviews/fconnection_review.htm Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HuskerDude Posted November 21, 2005 Members Share Posted November 21, 2005 Originally posted by Tusks So, um where's the keyboard? Jerry If you're lucky... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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