I have wanted to try a new controller for quite a while. It is very difficult to choose one because there are so many good products. After a lot of indecision over a few months, yesterday I ordered a Novation Impulse 49.
Plogue Chipsounds because it was half off, and I get paid this week and worked a lot, so I can justify this
thanks a lot for the tip-off. I fought (and won!) many times with myself on their website, but half-price is a perfect reason to stop this battle for good!
So I wanted two more Behringers (both would've costed me about 160-70 combined), but I was an idiot, and was talking on the phone with my mom during the last few minutes of the auction, and got sniped on ebay. HAPPENS TO THE BEST OF US.
So I said crap, the next auction doesn't end till tomorrow, who knows the price it goes for, and who knows how long it takes to get to me.
SO...I bought a BCR-2000 new from Amazon (for 150 bucks, which to me, is a travesty, as I could've gotten 2 used for that price, but at teh same time, BCRs are a crazy good value in terms of usefulness)
In any case, I also got velcro, a laminating machine, and laminate, so I can make easily exchanged graphic templates for the BCR. I'll tell you all how that goes soon since I got the 2 day shipping.
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finally bought one of those, after having build a midipal, preenfm and STS in the past months.
i hope it is as good as the rave reviews it gets. i'd happily sell some bigger synths and downsize my studio...
finally bought one of those, after having build a midipal, preenfm and STS in the past months.
i hope it is as good as the rave reviews it gets. i'd happily sell some bigger synths and downsize my studio...
I'd be surprised if you were disappointed with it!
Im about to build yet another one myself.
Yellow Magic Edition. 2 pole LP MS 20 style filter, with a (digital) delay. So maybe like a Monotron delay, but better!?
(If anyone else wants one, semi kits are still up for grabs currently)
i decided against the yellow magic edition because i need a 24dB filter...
hope i can faithfully recreate some sounds of the moog rogue with it as i don't want to carry it to gigs. how's the SMR4 Filter is it moogish?
i decided against the yellow magic edition because i need a 24dB filter...
hope i can faithfully recreate some sounds of the moog rogue with it as i don't want to carry it to gigs. how's the SMR4 Filter is it moogish?
The stock SMR 4 filter is a good one
I don't have any Moogs here, so I can't easily say how similar they might be. In a recent Sound on Sound review the filter was described as being more Roland like (Which initself I believe is not totally unlike a Moog..?). I would agree with that, as I have an IR3109/Roland filtered Shruthi also. Indeed the core design of the IR3109 and SMR 4 filters are similar, so no real surprise that they also sound quite similar.
Im not sure how close to a Moog Rogue sound you could get out of a Shruthi. The oscillators are unashamedly digital. The filter of course, being analogue sounds as analogue as you might expect.
I wouldn't say vintage/analogue'esque style tones are a Shruthi's forte, but it can certainly get pretty close when suitably programmed. Either way, it will likely sound good regardless.
You can put that in a contract, and I will sign it.
My Lemurs sort of replace them, but I had two BCR2000s for years; they always did their job flawlessly. Flexible, efficient, handy... Behringer did a great job on these. Actually there are some Behringer items that are simply great work horses... like my earlier Truth 2031's, just great, 10 years solid and counting
WOW, 10 years?! I was about to say I didn't even think they had truths out in the 90's, but crap, 10 years ago was 2002. In anycase, that's amazing. I want a Lemur now though, but I'm out of money.
Had to look that up! It looks like real quality. I really like it.
I've been working on some MIDI controller stuff myself, but I haven't been able to fold those old-style lit buttons like they have. I'd give a limb to know where they got them from (or if they had them custom made)
Pete
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September is bonus month here, so got a bunch off my wishlist
Virus TI Snow: used off ebay for a good price. Will be here tomorrow. I've wanted a Virus TI forever, and as much as I'd like the more powerful knobby version, getting something for under $800 is much better for me.
Plogue Chipsounds because it was on sale and I love chiptune sounds.
EMW WCS-1 which finally showed up (shipping from Brazil was surprisingly slow). This is an interesting synth with some cool sounds, but has surprisingly less bottom end than I expected. EQ helps. Doesn't sound like other synths and is musical, which is good. EMW - Electronic Music Works -
I have wanted to try a new controller for quite a while. It is very difficult to choose one because there are so many good products. After a lot of indecision over a few months, yesterday I ordered a Novation Impulse 49.
Be sure to post your impressions. I don't need a new controller right now, but the 61 key version of the impulse caught my eye. It's a sexy controller; looks well-built. Curious as to how it feels (the novation keybeds feel better to me than most others)
I don't care for Automap, though, and hate how my current controller always wants to be in that mode.
I have wanted to try a new controller for quite a while. It is very difficult to choose one because there are so many good products. After a lot of indecision over a few months, yesterday I ordered a Novation Impulse 49.
im most intrigued how convincing will the feel of (at least by the looks of it) "piano" weighted keys be..
im using a cheap M-Audio Axiom, and its a weighted "piano" keybed is that only by the looks. however, for rhodes and piano lines i still prefer it to semi weighted synth keys i have on synths, because of the sharp feel of black keys... but quality overall, the feel, and velocity curves it has are prety much crap.
also, functionality wise Impulse looks like Novations version of Axiom, pretty much.
on a related note, i played the SL mkII in the store, and its one of the, if not the nicest semi-weighted keybed for synth duties i ever tried. just WOW. on par with Fatar one on Voyager, Andromeda etc.
back on topic: i bought OB-Xa voiceboard to have some spares for my CEM-based synthesizers (OBXa and SH101):
and i bought Expert Sleeper's system consisting of ES-3mk2 ADAT interface, ES-5 expansion for additional GATE/Triggers and MIDI-over-audio, and revamped Silent Way 2.01:
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