
infradead
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So is this true?
Are people so enaremored of presets that something like Arturia's Minibrute a very affordable monophonic analog synth is frightening off people?

Arturia - Musical Instruments | Intro
I remember those beasts - we had the System 100 modular series when I was at school (high school)
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and the System 700 modular at university a few years later,
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later still I had access to a EMS Synthi VCS3 (one of these recently sold for over $18000 locally, my university tossed theirs out before I could "rescue" it such a waste)
- most of these were avoided by other students because they were scared by all the knobs and sliders and teh words on the front panels were even more scary.
So, yes synths used to be for people who knew what they were doing.
I still have a SH101
without the nifty handle.....![]()
i found an old Yamaha synth/keyboard during a property clean-out around 1997(98) <> needed a few keys unstuck and had a few keys and at least one knob missing <> that thing was a lot of fun to play with, left it with a friend when i moved around 1999 <> at the time i was really getting into 'wintel' desktop pc's <> found Hammerhead around this time ;-) <> anyway, im not scared of presets, i just dont want to lug around a bunch of gear <> is there a monophonic analog synth than can do something that Reason + FL + a cheap M-audio keyboard cant ? <> is there anything my MPC2000 does that i cant do on my desktop ? <> i just read an article by Rob Swift about the most recent DMC competition, only ONE crew used actual vinyl(they took 2nd place ?), the rest used some sort of USB controller <> answer is NO
False. thats the best part almost. The best synths dont have presets. Im no fan of their software really but this synth was a real cool idea for them and cheap. obviously its not a robust synth but one doesnt need everything under the sun for every synth. Ive talked to a bunch of people who are going to buy it.
depends if reason or FL have a stiener-parker filter and waveshaping i suppose ... way to much fun.
SAFE <> i have much to learn ;-)
I hate the sound of a tr808 an old roland R8 beats it hands down if your trying to sound like drums. Sh101 isn't a real synth as someone tried to suggest it was, I had two of them 1 oscillator crappy step sequencer and the TB303 is a F*****g toy.c
I agree people have used Stylophones Casio VL1's Bent up Biscuit tins for drums. With commercial sucsess and if its Dance type Music your into then the Tb303 and the Sh101 do a solid job. But the sound they make is a variation on the same themeJust goes to show one's man great sound is another mans toy........