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| jahnlay |
If you want to buy a synth and have the money ($1495) then the Moog Little Phatty is the one you want:
It's real analogue, not modelled, and has the best sound and features of any synth, except for it's bigger brother, the Voyager. Apparently there's a $1000 stage version of the Phatty on the way. |
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| Derivative |
Isnt that synth monophonic though? I think the voyager is monophonic.
Which means no chance of making interesting pads or anything with intervals or chords. Sounds great yea and the minimoog has got to be one of the most amazing sounding synths ever built, but a workhorse synth it aint. |
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| jahnlay |
| It's quite easy to create layers these days with digital audio recording! Hear it before you say it ain't a workhorse. |
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| Derivative |
But it isnt a workhorse though is it?
Its a monosynth right?
Dont get me wrong. Analogue monos are incredible machines and the 303 is still one of my favourite instruments. But still... |
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| Synchronicity |
| Well I've got a Waldorf Pulse and IMO it's not easy to layer. You don't know how the sounds are going to react by being layered until you record them twice. It's easy to make a sound which is too fat to be layered. And even if you do get a sound which layers nicely, then you have to record filter sweeps, pitch bends etc. to match (pain in the arse). With a monophonic synth I think you just have to accept it's monophonic. |
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| jahnlay |
| I understand what you're saying, but most soft synths can create and do the workhorse stuff. I'd rather have a fat analogue synth than a rompler like the fantom because you can create truly great bass and lead sounds, as well as analogue perc. Then use soft synths to create everything else. |
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| Synchronicity |
Yeah, I've got Spectrasonics Atmosphere which is nice for pads, I do want to create my own though.
What's the cheapest analog polysynth that could produce decent pads/atmos etc? |
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| Derivative |
Cheap? Analogue? Polysynth? HAH!
In all seriousness, cheap and analogue these days is an oxymoron.
Roland Juno 60/Juno 106 is fairly inexpensive. However, they have a well documented history of failing voice chips. The 106 is worse in this respect. Dirty sounding oscillators. Really dirty sounding saw wave. Can usually find a good one for £300 to £400. Beware the voice chip problem.
Sequential Circuits Prophet 600. I really wanted this at one point because its basically a prophet 5 minus a few features. But what killed it for me was finding out the filter is digital and it steps :( Arrrgh. You can usually find them for around £400 to £500 in fairly good condition.
Those are the ones I am familiar with. The Roland Jupiters are way too expensive for me. Yamaha CS series is way too expensive, although after seeing Vangelis demos on the CS-80, I have begun to pine for one :\
As a general rule analogue polysynths are all expensive. |
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| jahnlay |
| quote: | Originally posted by Synchronicity
Yeah, I've got Spectrasonics Atmosphere which is nice for pads, I do want to create my own though.
What's the cheapest analog polysynth that could produce decent pads/atmos etc? |
I think Dave Smith's Poly Evolver, but I'm not 100% sure |
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| Derivative |
| Poly Evolver is like a souped up Prophet 5 with digital effects, both analogue and digital oscillators etc. Alot of people claim it sounds better than a prophet 5 but its no way cheap! |
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| Synchronicity |
I thought the might be expensive:rolleyes:
So with the Junos, are you saying good dirty or bad dirty? And the voice chip - is this replacable? I'll have a look at harmony central about this too actually. Cheers. |
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| jahnlay |
| Well, he said cheapest, Poly Rack is R 1495, excluding shipping |
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