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Analog 4.....would you wish you had MOOG or Analog 4?
Just wondering if the channels and features out weigh the "real synth" physicality....
Tempted by the Anla4
Haha no hater here! Lovely.
My next hardware will almost certainly be Behringer and I feel no shame or embarrassment.
Hardware
Octatrack
Nord G2 engine
Bass Station 2
Minilogue
Faemi (soviet string machine/organ with resonant filter)
MFB Tanzmaus
Korg ER-1
FX
Lexicon MPX1
H9
Plan to sell:
Vermona DRM
Sequential Circuits 6 Trak
In answer to the original question as to why HW:
1) Hands on
2) Mostly prefer the sound over SW
3) Doesn't require computer or soundcard for live use
4) My HW never crashes
I wish I still had my ER and EA-1.... and EM-1. I wish I had them all still lol..
@RUST( i )K So how's the Octatrack working out?
I only really use it for sampling, but it's still good for that. The sequencer is way too basic.
3 Christmases ago
Meeblip
2 Christmases ago
Mother 32
Birthdays
Keystep, Beatstep Pro
—— nada since
Want
0-Coast
Arp Odyssey
Zoia
Merris pedals
Modal synth
Micro freak
Want but looks intimidating
MatrixBrute
Akai Miniak
Microkorg mk1
Novation X-station 49
Novation XioSynth 25
Kawai K1II
Yamaha P60
All bought as cheaply as possible and all capable of producing sounds I love, but having said that, some of my very best timbres come from softsynths, both PC and iOS.
LOL
Great
I am actually still feeling out the role it will serve and then specialize on the skills needed for that task.
It is at the moment in a holding pattern but a functional one at that.
I am also coordinating some other hardware moves to that is also impacting the whole thing.
It is more a utility for me at this point than an instrument per se...that will change I am sure.
I got the Analog 4 as much for the Elektron sequencer as the sound engine. One of the cool things is that it’s CV outs “speak” to my vintage MS-10. I also just love hardware sequencers, groove boxes and drum machines. So no wish for a Moog really :-)
Anyone here got the Modal Craft Synth 2.0?
Really tempted by this tiny synth but as a recent ios convert whose been hugely impressed by ipad synths I told myself: analogue only for hardware synths from now on.
Hard one for me...I want keys but I want multi timbral Chan action!
You can run audio thru for FX as well?
Prophet Rev2 is bi-timbral and can have 8 or 16 voices
I am not sure about routing audio through the A4 effects. It’s not something I do (and I have the v1 which is not exactly the same as the v2).
If you don’t want/need the A4 sequencer then it might be worth looking elsewhere, though analog + multi timbral is a tough thing to find. The Analog Keys can be found for a decent price second hand nowadays as it uses the v1 engine and that will get you the voices plus keys. The Tempest is effectively 6 independent analog voices, though not cheap (even second hand) and you’ll need to bring a keyboard to the party. If you want to consider digital then there are Far more options.
Praying for an iOS editor for my Kawai K5000W. Adjusting 128 partials via the data wheel is no fun 😢
MS-20
Nord Lead 3
Matrixbrute
Prophet 12
... are the synths I’ve used with the iOS stuff, the ms-20 was simple and familiar and is easy to get it to sound good. Getting into midi sequencing with iOS apps like Genome and StepPolyArp led me to the matrixbrute as a sort of update to the ms-20- sequencing notes, so you can change the sound while the notes play, and you can automate the knobs with midi, sync lfos to midi clock, there’s a basic step sequencer, and arp+sequencer, that you can get cool stuff by sequencing chord shapes, with something like MidiSteps, to get the majors and minors to change right. And it has presets, mod matrix rather than patch bay. Monophonic isn’t always ideal, but it kind of leaves room for other sounds. I’ve sampled it with SynthJacker and AudioLayer, to make a poly. It can do a paraphonic thing, I’ve used Quantichord as a MIDI harmonizer, to play the two vco’s paraphonic with the 1st and the 3rd, and Quantichord switches between major and minor in an intelligent way you don’t get detuning one vco from another. The Matrixbrute can take in an external audio source into the oscillator mixer, and it is a winner using Sir Sampleton as an oscillator, you can add a simple, sk-1 type sound to the analog synth waves, which makes a more complex sound.
The Nord is pretty cool with iOS, with all of the lit encoders, so if you automate something from a midi sequencer, you see the knobs turning. Also it is 4 part multi-timbral, 24 voices, which goes great with a sequencer, you can keep a whole orchestration all midi, all on the synth, and go through and change the 4 different sounds. I struggled with the sound, it’s colder and harder than an analog synth, but at this point I really like it, it kind of has some of the vibe of an FM synth, but in a VA/subtractive synth. It has an interesting quality of working well with a big, buzzy analog synth, which can start to sound bad (too phat) with other big, buzzy analog synth sounds. A cold, precise sound can fit in there nicely. It does pads and stuff well, and has an interesting “chord stack” feature which is handy for sound design, like you have a thin sound, but then get a chord stack going, and it is lush. It can stack the same note, too, and detune the stack, and evaluate the voices in the stack separately, like the LFOs can by polyphonic, and random modulation is different, per voice. Really interesting filter section, with HP/LP (like ms-20), LP+BP in parallel, comb filters. It also works as a midi controller, very nice with Animoog, because Animoog updates the midi controller with knob/cc positions.
The P12 is similar to Nord, with how it works with iOS, but I got it because of the mod matrix, between that and the matrixbrute, it was this search for a modern take on the semi-modular synthesizer. It has digital oscillators, but an analog filter, and ends up sounding pretty different from the Nord.
I think the MatrixBrute is one of those "holy grail" synths for me. Probably won't get one ever, but it's on that list. Same with Waldorf Quantum but I look at the screen on it and think, I've already got this in spades with the iPad, but unfortunately that doesn't stop me from wanting one.
My Waldorf love extends to Pulse, Blofeld and the Rocket. Honestly, haven't had much time with any of them (as I said in earlier post) but this is where I see myself in 2020. Wish me well.
Roland FA-06 mostly used as a master keyboard
IK Multimedia Uno synth to scratch the surface of analog sound in hardware
Other than that I am completely iPad-based.
In addition to Peak/Virus/Blofeld, received a Hydrasynth yesterday!
So I ended up getting an OB-6 desktop because I fell in love (meanwhile, my SE-02 is now sad, pushed off to the side, though still hooked up). It is, without a doubt, the most beautiful synth I've ever heard. Almost brings tears to my eyes. It's only been a few days so I know I'm in the honeymoon period, but I've already created two patches I quite enjoy, and it took almost no time at all - I lost 40min to audio bliss after creating the last patch, just getting lost in playing it and tweaking knobs.
I own many of the "top" software synths on the market, and have at least auditioned most of the rest. I've NEVER heard any sound like this (I'm hopeful that Synapse Audio will have an OB-Xa that comes close, though that emulates a different chip).
I'll add modulation to the OB-6 using my iPhone as needed using midimux, since it has 1 global LFO, 1 cross-mod, and the 2nd osc can be used as an LFO.
Casio CZ3000
Yamaha RX21
Yamaha FB01
Korg Z1
Korg Prophecy
Freebass 383 (303 clone)
Novation circuit mono station
Behringer Pro-1
Arturia DrumBrute
TE PO-32
Plus a couple of hardware samplers and some ROMplers.
Edit. And a Novation Xiosynth. I forget that’s also a synth.
Oh how I miss my Prophecy. I lusted after a Z1.
Roland RD-700gx
Roland D70
Roland Jupiter 80
Roland JD800
Roland JV800
Roland JV1080
Yamaha TG77
Arp Odyysey
Waldorf Streichfett
Waldorf Blofeld
Korg MS20
Korg O3R/W
Korg Radias
Korg Minilogue
Oberheim Matrix 1000
Peavey Spectrum Bass
Peavey SP Sample Player
Peavey SX Sampler
Alesis D1
Prophet Rev2
Behringer DM12
Moog Voyager
Moog Grandmother
Moog Minitaur
Moog Mother 32
Moog Mother 32
Moog Mother 32
All collecting dust since discovering iPad Pro’s and synth apps 🙄
Sweeeeeeeeeettttt
Ha! No kidding. Still the nicest keybed I’ve ever had the pleasure to finger as Mr. Haq would put it.
hey @cloudswimmer i see you've got a roland a49 there. could you tell me what the keybed's like in general and compared to your other keyboards (is that a novation sl?)? i really need a new keyboard but there's nowhere to try them out round here.
Thanks @Processaurus for the Animoog vs NL3 hint.
I didn't know about this level of controller support!
MS10
MS20
SH-2
SH-101
MG-1
DX7
O Coast
Minitaur
I'm going to sell all of them except the SH-2 and 101.