Sunday, November 14, 2010

gear lust part 50/11




For real analog polysynthness, holy crapstain that's cheap. Basically 4 of the Mophos Alex posted about earlier in one box.







Still way infatuated with this thing. Almost have the impetus saved up to purchase one.







Hey, Roland made a new VA synth with knobs and shit that doesn't look like it was made for 3rd graders, and isn't ridiculously large. Got to play with it a bit at a music store today. It's not bad. the voice selection switches that let you either edit one voice or any combination of them is kind of sweet, but you tend to get lost a little with the knobs' previous positions when you change groupings. It probably wouldn't be that bad after actually using it for a while, and I obviously didn't read the manual or anything.




In the non-plastic-and-metal realm, this is a pretty straightforward, cheap, and CPU-efficient plugin that sounds pretty boss. Or deck, or phat, or whatever the fucking kids are saying nowadays. Not that I would know, but my less law-abiding friends tell me crax are easy to find for both platforms. The built-in effects are kinda crap, but that's not the reason to use it. The reason to use it is 8 unison voices x 4 oscillators = 32 waveforms that'll make your shit thicker than Orson Welles, and the buttery (for a plugin) filters.

C'mon peeps. Share your funtime friends / wannabe fuck buddies. And I mean that metaphorically. Don't make me start doing some of my font diarrhea.

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