Perhaps seek out a Nord Electro? There is s massive free Nord sample library, including mellotron and real sampled choirs and soloists. You will need a Nord to play the samples back on, as they are a proprietary format.

If it is an 80's style digital reverb you are after, you could do a lot worse than pick up an Audiothingies Dr. 'A.' This is a combined reverb and delay, which to my ears emulates 12 bit technology, and sounds awesome on synths. Whats more it is a current product, and very reasonably priced. https:...

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Keyboard: Nord A1 Lead

I think these modern synth clones are a good example of the 80 / 20 rule, which says something like: "You can usually achieve 80% of the goal with 20% of the effort." It is achieving the last 20% that's the hard part. I think the Behringer clones are pretty damn close sonically to their targets. To ...

My dealer still hasn't delivered my keyboard version, nor does he answer my emails :bang: Now that I see there is a desktop version, I dropped him an email to cancel the "pre"order. Maybe I go for the desktop version or an entirely different polysynth. The mono output still bugs me . :confused: Wha...

I've got a bunch of Moog Slim Phattys (Phatties?) poly-chained along with a Little Phatty. I call it Phatt Bastard . IMG_4968.jpeg That's a really interesting project. So does the poly chain 'despatching' method default to 'round-robin'? The issue with round-robin is that the next note could be ass...

If it is an 80's style digital reverb you are after, you could do a lot worse than pick up an Audiothingies Dr. 'A.' This is a combined reverb and delay, which to my ears emulates 12 bit technology, and sounds awesome on synths. Whats more it is a current product, and very reasonably priced. https:/...

Wait, does the FS mean "full size" or something else? A full size miniKORG feels a bit confusing, if so ;) I reckon 'FS" stands for ' F uck's S ake' 2 grand for that? However, it looks gorgeous. As a teenager I used to lust after this. It would sit on top of a Rhodes stage piano in my local music s...

I fell in love with the MS-20 about 6 years ago, and so I own a pair. Not a perfect pair, mind, and not vintage; a full size keys kit, and a full size desktop module. My original idea was to manufacture a stand/case that would hold both together into a super MS(40?) configuration. I haven't done th...

Presumably, there will be a thread "20's Synths going for Peanuts," as we all wonder what made us so crazy "back then" to think that good music could come from such gear. I think you are right. This isn't about a defined cutoff point, after which synth design 'went south'. It is more like a sliding...

It's quite easy really. Without headroom you just don't have the space for all the tracks you want to mix. At the end it will get to (let's say) the same AD converter but it's all in the process of getting there. If you haven't got the headroom to mix before that, the mix will turn to mush before y...

Just got a nice Roland XP-30 mainly for the keyboard, which feels identical to the D-50. An unexpected bonus has been the arpeggiator, which can turn anything into Ennio Morricone. However, there doesn’t seem to be a latch. Anyone think of a workaround to this omission other than a hold pedal? A sm...

More seriously. I have heard it said that a perfect amplifier is simply a wire with gain. Any change to the sound of a signal, other than amplification or attenuation is color / colour.

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If you're doing things to build and to contribute and to help, you're part of a community. If you're taking and making life harder for others in a community, you're part of the community but are harming it versus building it. Why is this so hard? I want to infinitely face-palm. https://64.media.tum...

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speaking of "color". what does that really mean? i often hear about devices "adding color" and the "coloration" of sound.

what is colored? and what is not colored?

(no philosophy, please )

Color is what you get when Americans try to spell 'colour'

I don´t really get these "all-in-one" devices. If one wants something like that, why not use a (much more capable) computer? Don´t get me wrong - i love my hardware :mrgreen: But the Verselab just seems like one big compromise to me. If i want hardware, i want it to do a specific job really well. N...

I think the principle holds with smaller, less expensive desks too. Desks have a sound, and can be used as part of the creative process. However, if they sound shit, then that will form part of the recording too. Surely there must be desks that are neutral, though? It just seems odd to me, never ha...

I know it seems counter intuitive, but some desks ( even different examples of the same model!) can sound different from others, and the desk installed in a studio can play a large part in a band's decision which studio they want to record their next record in. Desks in studios where highly successf...

My Equator D5's sit on foam wedges that acoustically decouple them from what they sit on, and angle them slightly upwards These are an official Equator accessory. A pal used them as a pattern for his Mackie's but just got some medium density foam from a foam store for pennies, and cut it with a heat...

https://community.musictribe.com/discussions/178490/309762/thomann-and-music-tribe-to-enter-super-partner-relationship We’ll soon be rolling out a Customer Co-Innovation application that will allow our Customers to directly participate in the definition and design of new solutions, products and fea...

So basically high end mixers don't matter for electronic music then? There's no yes or no answer for that. There are so many different ways of doing electronic music that there is no one size fits all solution. What I get from a lot of the replies here is that there are many out there that aren't e...

I use a couple of Ikea HARTE led desktop lights. They are cheap at 15 GBP each, come in black or white, and are pretty compact. https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/harte-led-work-lamp-black-silver-colour-70266987/ That said, Ikea have a great lighting section, with a number of led desk light alternatives. ...

I guess that as long as the analog mixer sitting before the audio interface does not have a significantly constrained dynamic range, elevated noise floor, and decent frequency response... it should not impair the quality of the recorded audio. I have an aging Mackie VLZ 1402 sitting in front of my M...

I'd also like to give a nod to the Novation Ultranova which has a massive amount of programming strength, some pretty unique FX implementations,and pretty painless editing similar to a Ensoniq esq1. Sadly (and sort of critically IMO) it's a monotimbral synth. I hope they bring back the Nova series....