Members flat earth Posted April 3, 2007 Members Share Posted April 3, 2007 Hope you dont mind me posting links to your demos at VSE Chip, but i thought they were so good, that it was only right that people here heard your excellent work. The DSS-1 is a superb underrated darkhorse of a synth. I would have purchased one long ago if it wernt for its size Pads: http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/cs80_vangelis_sound.mp3 Leads: http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/arp_zawinul_lead.mp3 http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/moog_modular_emerson.mp3 http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/multimoog_winwood_lead.mp3 http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/ob4voice_lyle_mays_lead.mp3 http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/trident_flanged_lead.mp3 Synth-Brass: http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/p5_brass_1.mp3 http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/p5_brass_2.mp3 http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/obxa_brass.mp3 Synth-Bass: http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/ppgwave_bass.mp3 Synth-Strings: http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/emulator2_marcata_strings.mp3 http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/jupiter8_strings.mp3 http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/jx8p_strings.mp3 http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/polysix_phased_strings.mp3 http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/trident_phased_strings.mp3 Pianos: http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/piano_acoustic_grand.mp3 http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/piano_yamaha_cp70.mp3 http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/piano_rhodes.mp3 http://glenstegner.com/dss1/demos/piano_rhodes.mp3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Metrosonus Posted April 3, 2007 Members Share Posted April 3, 2007 is that with the factory sounds or samples? i have the EX8000 / 800. Ive been meaning to pick up the dss1 rack sooner or later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members syncretism Posted April 3, 2007 Members Share Posted April 3, 2007 Tony demoed his once, and hell yeah, it sounded great. I'd love to have one and the Prophets VS and 2002, miaow.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kazper Posted April 3, 2007 Members Share Posted April 3, 2007 It's sized killed it for me back in the apartment days. Now I litterly trip over gear and can't afford to add it because I have no room for one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Metrosonus Posted April 3, 2007 Members Share Posted April 3, 2007 I sold my dw and bought the EX for the same reason.. A friend of mine had the DSS1 and we allways joked that we need to start a band ala zlad with the two of them since the looked like something out of an eastern bloc country.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flat earth Posted April 3, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 3, 2007 is that with the factory sounds or samples?i have the EX8000 / 800. Ive been meaning to pick up the dss1 rack sooner or later. These were exactly my thoughts, but alas, the DSM-1 rack lost oscillator sync and resonance. Even the Delay fx are gone i believe. (But it gains more memory and polyphony) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paolo Di Nicolantonio Posted April 3, 2007 Members Share Posted April 3, 2007 It sounds really nice I almost bought a DSS-1 many years ago, but I decided it was too big for my apartment, at the time. I remember the guy who was selling it, he demonstrated it to me with a diskette containing a piano sound called "Steinway"... it didn't sound like a grand piano at all - more like a glockenspiel These DSS-1 sounds remind me what I was able to do with my Roland W-30 and an Alesis MidiVerb II, utilizing just the internal waveforms. The W-30 is a - hint, hint - true sleeper, I'll never sell it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChipCurtis Posted April 3, 2007 Members Share Posted April 3, 2007 Thanks flatearth for posting those here. I don't mind at all. MetroSonus, those are not stock sounds, they are programmed by myself except for maybe one brass and one lead sound (which were tweaked anyway). The acoustic and EP pianos were also sampled by me. The acoustic grand sounds a hell of a lot better than the Korg factory disk. I don't mind the size of this synth, it actually looks very impressive in a rig. I have mine on a 2-tier stand with the JD-800 above it. (The DSS1 is actually larger than the JD!!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members urbanscallywag Posted April 3, 2007 Members Share Posted April 3, 2007 It's sized killed it for me back in the apartment days. Now I litterly trip over gear and can't afford to add it because I have no room for one.The DSS-1 is so large...that my MPC1000 fits on the front panel with room to spare! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tony Scharf Posted April 4, 2007 Members Share Posted April 4, 2007 is that with the factory sounds or samples?i have the EX8000 / 800. Ive been meaning to pick up the dss1 rack sooner or later. the DSS1 rack sucked. its a totally different instrument from the keyboard version from what I understand - and they are extremely rare. the keyboard is BIG. like, it makes an EMAXII look petite. but its a mean battleship of an instrument. also, there arent reallly any factory 'sounds' that I have heard for it. I know there were some floppy disk sample libraries out there, but I cant imagine they would be that good. Besides...its so easy to just draw your own (yes, I said draw). It is one of the most unique s+s architectures ever. and with analog filters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members urbanscallywag Posted April 4, 2007 Members Share Posted April 4, 2007 The DSS-1 is so large...that my MPC1000 fits on the front panel with room to spare! http://homepage.mac.com/nicksdsu/dss1/dss1_mpc.jpg I think there's room for 2 evolvers on the rear of the front panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChipCurtis Posted April 4, 2007 Members Share Posted April 4, 2007 It is one of the most unique s+s architectures ever. and with analog filters! Yes, this is why I considered it sort of an "analog M1". In fact most of the M1 ROM is made up of samples that were first made for the DSS-1 and DSM-1 floppy libraries. The DSS-1 is the direct precursor to the world's biggest selling synth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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