September 2012 New Gear Thread

[Eric J]

I ordered this a couple of weeks ago, the unit and panels arrived earlier this week.

[BTByrd]

[acealive]

Originally Posted by BM0

This looks neat. I never heard of it so I checked it out on Mutable Instruments site. Does some pretty cool stuff.

indeed, it does

a user at sequencer.de even rewrote the firmware, so that the sequencer now works like the SH-101 sequencer when you update it with the customised version.

[Reptil]

Originally Posted by acealive

indeed, it does

a user at sequencer.de even rewrote the firmware, so that the sequencer now works like the SH-101 sequencer when you update it with the customised version.

mmm interesting. a link please? (I did search for "midipal" but no results)

Originally Posted by BTByrd

nice score
please report what your impression is?
been messing with half finished J3RK 258j board
and have two M15: I'm wondering is this two and a half x M15?

[acealive]

Originally Posted by Reptil

mmm interesting. a link please? (I did search for "midipal" but no results)

the midipal is from mutable instruments :

Instruments | Mutable instruments

About the rewritten firmware, it's somewhere in this thread at sequencer.de : (there are several versions, also some float around in the mutable instruments forum I think) :

Forum • mutable instruments midipal als fertigprodukt

[Reptil]

dankeschön schildkrötiger Freund
yes I've got 2 midipal kits here

edit: I've found the .syx file for the polysequencer. no step length though.. hmm
question please? did you try installing that? if so, which do you prefer (the original sequencer or the new one)?
(I realise you've only just got it )

[ozy]

I preordered the Kurzweil PC3 Kore64 ROM expansion.

This is not another order in addition to my August order for the same item.

It's still the same order.

I'm just one month older.

And still strong in my faith that one day Kurzweil will take my money.

[acealive]

Originally Posted by Reptil

dankeschön schildkrötiger Freund
yes I've got 2 midipal kits here

edit: I've found the .syx file for the polysequencer. no step length though.. hmm
question please? did you try installing that? if so, which do you prefer (the original sequencer or the new one)?
(I realise you've only just got it )

I had no time to test it yet or to install the update

[EvilDragon]

Originally Posted by CfNorENa

Great suggestions (big fan of the DP/4). I'd also add the Kurzweil Rumour to the list. Reverb algos from the flagship KSP8 for pocket change. Easy to use, and as good for big, strange, out-of-this-world reverbs as for small, realistic spaces.

Kurzweil's reverbs are awesome.


As for me, got this bad boy for cheap on KvR marketplace:

[tilman]

hopefully shipped next week. Just paid the invoice!

[mildheadwound]

'Just traded my classic MAMadx-1 for a nord drum. pretty happy with this trade, but i already miss the MAM, for it's odd sound, and my fave, the hihat. Definitely a day n' night in the number of knobs dept, but the nord seems to have some pretty sublime kick to it though.



for



Also grabbed a cool little sequencer utility for the Euro...

Not received, just yet, but already have tons of ideas on how i'll use it.

[phreak260]

woot woot (so much for me not buying anything else, damn GAS):



so, i found a compromise for my lust for the mkii... picked this baby up for roughly half the price. i know it doesn't have ALL of the features of the mkii, but at the price i got it for i can live with that

now, if it will just arrive in one piece....

[Luke44]

Got this bad boy




Having a blast with it, presets are shitty but its a sound designers dream

edit - almost forgot to include this guy, a Lexicon MX200 got this hardware FX unit to add some spice to the sound of the P08

[Beany]

Originally Posted by Beany

Been having stupid fun & shaking the foundations with these today



I'd never tried a Novation synth before and I must say I'm pretty pleased with it. Teeth-loosening subs, squelchy acid-leads, sweet pads and some nice 'FM' tones for £100 = bargain! Very hands-on and easy to learn.



Bass Pedals has helped me enormously in exacting sweet revenge on the next-door neighbours who kept me awake until 4am last night

OOOOooooh! Plus I just got confirmation that my MINIBRUTE will be turning up TOMORROW (even though I actually bought it in Feb)

[ExtraGarlic]

i just got a k1r for $20



lofi diggi time!

[squatski]

Originally Posted by Jim Stout

Finally replaced my 303 that I sold in 2008. This one is fresh! :-)

you could of just got rebirth

[djshire]

Originally Posted by Eric J

I ordered this a couple of weeks ago, the unit and panels arrived earlier this week.

I love mine, very versatile. I can make everything from chiptunes to percussion to Moog basslines.

[Beany]

Originally Posted by scottdavidson

many years ago i used to have a "problem" downstairs neighbour who used to come home drunk and play Meatloaf at stupid volume till the early hours.

After several instances of this my flatmate and i discovered the perfect soloution, we buggered off to amsterdam for the weekend, but before we left we put "Thousand" by Moby on the cd player on repeat at top ,top volume.

When we returned we found our neighbour outside in the street crying and shaking , promising never to play Meatloaf again.

Flat 35B- one......Flat 35A- nil.

Game over.


btw, the Astation is a smashing little synth, especially for a hundered quid.

That'll learn 'em

They had a full-on PA in the back garden that pointed pretty much directly at my bedroom window. I couldn't really complain as it was a wedding reception, but after about 1am it just seemed to be the teenagers playing Rhianna, Ke$ha & Tinie Tempah but, most annoyingly, never the whole song! Someone would suddenly hit the 'next' button or something.

I just had to forget about sleep and put my 'mixing-head' on & revel in how much sub modern pop music uses nowadays. Which I then tried to faithfully re-create and even exceed at a wholly acceptable 9.30am on Sunday morning heeh!

[Mr. Varaldo]

I got an AMS DMX15-80S from OldGearGuy, amazing box

[Eric J]

Originally Posted by djshire

I love mine, very versatile. I can make everything from chiptunes to percussion to Moog basslines.

Yeah, it's one of the first synth's I can remember owning where I just sat there and played it. Not sequenced, not tried to fit it into a track, just sat there and played, enjoying the sound of it. Something about those 24db filters...

[djshire]

I bought Hollow Sun Broken, which sounds just amazing....no presets, just f*cking around, I feel like I'm making 80s Proto-EBM

[Jim Stout]

Originally Posted by squatski

you could of just got rebirth

I've had a 303 since 1993 and I really regretted selling it in 2008.

I've had/have most of the software versions and I've had x0xb0xes,

This is personal and I wanted my 303 back.

[zzzxtreme]

[MinoCan]

Nothing fancy this month, bought a MOTU MTP AV for synth sync.

[EvilDragon]

Originally Posted by djshire

I bought Hollow Sun Broken, which sounds just amazing....no presets, just f*cking around, I feel like I'm making 80s Proto-EBM

Thanks for your patronage!

[ionian]

Originally Posted by clusterchord

not rambling, its my favorite subject

anyways, i have Eventide Orville, and for special reverbs, vast (i.e. coming from Pluto or Uranus type stuff) soundscapes with pitching down the reverb etc, or when you need a complex multifx preceeeding the reverb algo to get this , then yes Eventide shines on synths. however,

in 90% of the situations where you need regular hall, diffused delays, rooms on synths.. i turn to Lexicon.. and i dont mean VSTi suite, or their cleanish/pristine PCM92/96 range... i mean old Lexicon. it makes things fit the mix, it makes em sound "bigger than life". i use Lexicon 300 and PCM70 all the time. if you can find one, 224 or 224X/XL as well..

Thanks so much for the detailed reply! I've spent the last few days comparing the H7600, H8000fw and the Orville, and I felt like the Orville was the best bang for the buck for me at the moment (maybe if I didn't buy the Bricasti, I'd get the H8000!) so I managed to pluck one from our very own classifieds and it will be heading my way. So my purchases for September are now:

Synthesis technology E340
Bricasti M7
Eventide Orville

Which taps me out for the rest of the month, if not the year! Although this still leaves a single space in my rack before it's all filled up. I've been in love from afar for the longest time with the Eventide 2016 and I still want to get one in here to test. The demos I've heard always blow me away and I'd love to hear if it's something I couldn't get from the Orville or the Bricasti.

I also have thought about getting a PCM 70 more than once because I've also heard great things about it with synths so maybe I'll end up with one of those instead of the 2016. Two great units but only one space left! But that's a discussion for a much later date as I have to recover from the massive financial blow to me this month before I start wondering about another reverb unit.

Thanks again for the suggestions!

CfNorENa -Thank you as well for the suggestion of the Rumour. I've heard a lot of good things about that unit as well and I've been meaning to pick up one. They seem fly under the radar and still are affordable so maybe sooner than later I can get one.

Regards,
Frank

[Syn303]

One of these coming shortly... with added +Drive

[Hypnocil]

Originally Posted by Mr. Varaldo

I got an AMS DMX15-80S from OldGearGuy, amazing box

That is a beautiful thing - congrats.

[mike vee]

This was a great month. I splurged a bit

[rasmus]

some tools, a few square meters of particle board and rockwool, maybe a shruti later this month
still got to build 3 plate resonators, a cloud and two more 250l helmholtzresos for the back of the room...