As your first synth, you want to get a synth with meny multitimbral parts.
This is the number of different sounds you can play on it at a given time and high polophony (the number of notes that can be played at one time).
My first synth (the JP-8080) was great but simce it can only play two parts at any given time.....it really made my move into hardware slow.
I would recommend the Virus (even the new cheapper classic) or a Novation K-Station. If you get a module (i.e. no keyboard) then you must also get a midi controller, thats why I think the k-station is a great first synth coz it has a little built in keyboard.
Now.....you will also need a sound card with good ASIO drivers.
If you don`t have one yet, for starters I would go with the M-Audio Audiophile. Thats about all you need.

thanks for that, i am running the SB audigy platnum 2, hasnt let me sown for software amyway, would that work for hardware

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Originally posted by eladla As your first synth, you want to get a synth with meny multitimbral parts. This is the number of different sounds you can play on it at a given time and high polophony (the number of notes that can be played at one time). My first synth (the JP-8080) was great but simce it can only play two parts at any given time.....it really made my move into hardware slow. I would recommend the Virus (even the new cheapper classic) or a Novation K-Station. If you get a module (i.e. no keyboard) then you must also get a midi controller, thats why I think the k-station is a great first synth coz it has a little built in keyboard. Now.....you will also need a sound card with good ASIO drivers. If you don`t have one yet, for starters I would go with the M-Audio Audiophile. Thats about all you need.

I've got some nice soft synths but I'm want to use some hardware too
I like to buy one or too hardware synth to start playing with,
and would it be better to buy Nord Lead 3 or Nord Rack for the start instead of K-Station cause K-Station has it's software analog V-Station 1.2 (and it's a very good softsynth)?

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Originally posted by eladla As your first synth, you want to get a synth with meny multitimbral parts. ... I would recommend the Virus (even the new cheapper classic) or a Novation K-Station. If you get a module (i.e. no keyboard) then you must also get a midi controller, thats why I think the k-station is a great first synth coz it has a little built in keyboard. Now.....you will also need a sound card with good ASIO drivers. If you don`t have one yet, for starters I would go with the M-Audio Audiophile. Thats about all you need.

Thats quite contradictorial, you recommend a multitimbral synth and you say go for the k-station, which is mono (or bi) timbral and only 8 note polyphony as far as I know.

I'd say buy a novation nova, waldorf micro q or virus b cheap from ebay and you'll fall in love pretty soon

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Originally posted by kaymak thanks for that, i am running the SB audigy platnum 2, hasnt let me sown for software amyway, would that work for hardware

It will work but I really don't like creative for producing, it's designed for gaming. From the moment you have the money get rid of it and buy a terratec, echo, m-audio or another semi-professional soundcard.

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cheers, you'll have to bear with me as i am a hardware virgin, is hardware basically like a vst for automation within your sequencer, you program a synth then automate it normally or do you automate is manually.

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Originally posted by kaymak cheers, you'll have to bear with me as i am a hardware virhim, is hardware basically like a vst for automation within your sequencer, you program a synth then automate it normally or do you automate is manually.

I didn't completely understand your question. On modern synths you can automate every single parameter, just look in the cc list in the manual and set the right cc.

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Thats quite contradictorial, you recommend a multitimbral synth and you say go for the k-station, which is mono (or bi) timbral and only 8 note polyphony as far as I know.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking! I would stay away from the K-Station. It has to be one of the worst buys ever. 1 part mulitimbral, scant effects section. Lord, you could buy a Supernova for just a little more.

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Originally posted by DeZmA Thats quite contradictorial, you recommend a multitimbral synth and you say go for the k-station, which is mono (or bi) timbral and only 8 note polyphony as far as I know. I'd say buy a novation nova, waldorf micro q or virus b cheap from ebay and you'll fall in love pretty soon

Hmm.....didn`t think of that .....your right I guess....my bad.
But the K-Station is still nice to start with coz it`s an easy synth to program and it doubles as a midi controller (and it`s cheap).
I still stand by what I said.....if your gona get just one synth, get one thats at least 4-parts (like the nord lead 3).
But if you only get the nord as your only hardware you`ll need the non-rack model unless you wanna program it all into the piano roll and not by playing on a keyboard.....it`s possible....but kills the mood for me.

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Originally posted by eladla Hmm.....didn`t think of that .....your right I guess....my bad. But the K-Station is still nice to start with coz it`s an easy synth to program and it doubles as a midi controller (and it`s cheap). I still stand by what I said.....if your gona get just one synth, get one thats at least 4-parts (like the nord lead 3). But if you only get the nord as your only hardware you`ll need the non-rack model unless you wanna program it all into the piano roll and not by playing on a keyboard.....it`s possible....but kills the mood for me.

Do parts really matter if you are recording individually though?

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Polyphony is definitely important, but I don't consider timbrality to be an issue. I run a virus C and I've never used it in multi mode. In a studio environment, I tend to do each sound by itself so that I can adjust it to fit.

As far as good synths go, the more popular are the VAs like the Virus, the jp-8080 and the nord and to a lesser extent the Waldorf Q.

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