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Alpha219
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Recommend hardware based synth module

I've got a zillion software-based synths, but I'm looking to design my own strange droning noises with a hardware-based synth module. I really don't want to spend more than $2,000. What would you recommend I look at? Something from Waldorf? Moog? Roland? Novation?


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cryophonik
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Registered: Jan 2008
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So many options to choose from with that budget! Where to begin…. Do you have a favorite soft synth that you’d like in hardware form (or similar)?


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Alpha219
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After watching a video about the Waldorf Iridium, I think I'm gonna spend more and get it. This thing makes insane noises!


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Good choice! I've never owned one, but have almost pulled the trigger on one a few times and it definitely seems like beastly synth.


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Re: Recommend hardware based synth module

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I've got a zillion software-based synths, but I'm looking to design my own strange droning noises with a hardware-based synth module. I really don't want to spend more than $2,000. What would you recommend I look at? Something from Waldorf? Moog? Roland? Novation?

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Zak McKracken
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I’ve had many hardware synths back in the day. Roland JP8080,
Access Virus Rack XL (basically C), Clavia Nord Rack 3, Waldorf MicroQ.
These were all virtual analog they all sounded good and was rather easy to program.
Also had a few groove boxes like Elektron Machinedrum and Korg Electribes.
My challenge though with them all was interfacing to the sequencer with MIDI and Audio, timesync and automation - it was just not logical or practical. For some time I kept them to make samples which was then added to samplers in my DAW but eventually got tired of it all and sold everything.
Make sure you know you can interface your synth to your computer in a practical workflow before investing.
The only thing I miss are the electribes, they were so fun for ideas.

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cryophonik
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I'm still using a hybrid setup with a bunch of hardware and software. I've always been primarily a hardware user when it comes to synths, just because I'm old af and stuck in my old-school ways, but I do all of my mixing and most of my effects ITB. I think the one thing that people get hung up on is the idea of having total recall with their synths, but I take a different approach and treat them as if I'm recording vocals, or a bass line, or guitar part. I usually just play them in real-time and quantize, or I record or sequence the MIDI, overdub for automation, etc. Then I just bounce it to audio and mute the MIDI track in my sequencer (Logic), and I save the patch on my synth in case I ever want to go back and redo the part. I just like the idea of committing it to audio and moving on to the next sound. I know that's all counterintuitive to the advantages of soft synths and total recall, but I find it pretty liberating to complete a synth part and be done with it. That said, yeah I also use and love my soft synths.


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Zak McKracken
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treat them as if I'm recording vocals, or a bass line, or guitar part..


This mindset is very important glad your brought it up.
It took me a decade understanding that this is the approach almost all hardware based artist exercise, and it took another decade to accept that it is the only way to get anything done and by then realizing I had to sell it all as it was not a way to stay creative for me, I’ve always been a midi and soft-synth editor fanatic starting out first in Rebirth and then Reason where I had endless of control and edits. Now I’m just too old to change to anything else. I just love the robustness of Reason and its synths and project handling. I do miss the sounds of the hardware though. Maybe I should get one synth just to play a little with and not have any ambition to sequence it.

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