Jason Moyer on 17/12/2020 at 17:56
I'm trying not to buy anything unless it does something I can't do. I'm still waiting on the MS-20 FS that I preordered a year ago, and that's a synth with a bunch of features you can't really replicate (particularly the screaming dual hp/lp filter and the amazing signal processor section). There are a couple pedals I want (Collider and Nightsky). Even though from a practical standpoint I probably wouldn't do anything with it that I couldn't do on a modern Korg analog, I might reward myself for purging most of my Behringer crap with the new Prophet 5. I might sell my Digitone/Digitakt and consolidate them into a Rytm Mk2 to cover sampling and analog percussion-with-presets. I think other than picking up dream official reissues from Moog/Sequential/Korg/ARP if/when they come out, I have all of the important bases covered. And a few bases I may end up selling off if I don't find a use for them (VA, FM, Wavetables).
faetal on 17/12/2020 at 17:57
Both the DFAM and Grandmother have been on my wishlist for a while.
The Grandmother just sounds amazing.
Jason Moyer on 17/12/2020 at 18:12
I dunno if it sounds better recorded than just using VSTs or whatever, but "in the room" I have never heard a synthesizer that sounds as good as my Moog gear. Even something that unpatched is a fairly basic 303 type synth, the Mother-32, almost made me poop my pants the first time I heard the raw oscillator tone.
The thing that's cool about the Grandmother is how flexible it is. With a couple patch cables you basically have a Minimoog. Without them you can basically mimic every Roland SH synth. It's probably the best old-school style monosynth ever. I mean, if you don't count the Matriarch which is kind of a superset of the Grandmother. The whole series is golden though, best thing Moog's done in ages.
Aja on 17/12/2020 at 18:20
The MS20 is the one synth I'll never, ever sell. It's got lots of flaws and the build quality is not great, but for me it's magical; there's an indescribable "rightness" to the sound that I don't really get from anything else I own. The 0-Coast maybe comes close sometimes, but I still feel like it takes effort to get it to that special place. For some reason I imagine a real Moog might get there as well. Maybe it's psychological, but if we've established anything, it's that synths are inherently so.
I've kind of lost my appetite for pedals. Between having to use a million AC adapters or daisy chains, I'd rather just buy whatever latest thing Valhalla has come up with and keep my effects in the box. Make Noise effects excepted, of course.
Aja on 17/12/2020 at 18:30
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
best thing Moog's done in ages.
Urge to buy... rising
faetal on 17/12/2020 at 23:06
There's definitely some magic going on in Moog circuitry somewhere.
demagogue on 21/12/2020 at 17:53
This is what my imagined setup is shaping up to right now.
It's an interesting thought process, trying to find the best mix that fits one's sensibility.
Edit: This isn't what you'd call efficient. It's like two semi-standalone systems, so it's duplicating almost everything (osc., waveshaping, filters, envelopes, LFOs, sequencers, etc.). But I had an intuition that they could run in sync with each other and play off of or complement each other well, since they still have their own sound and approach. I was thinking the Mother 32 would be a kind of solid backbone structure and the Swarm some crazy layer on top of it with some edge. I was originally thinking about the Subharmonicon, but watching the videos of that, that's really unstable and it's hard to make it play nice if you're just improving on it, so it's definitely never going to fit with another system where you have to claw on to stability. But it did make me think two independent sequencers that worked off each other (e.g., triggering each other's reset or advance trigger) could have some cool polyrythmic effects while still keeping everything in a harmonic neighborhood not derailing the harmony like the Subharm. could.
And for rhythm the Erica Sample Drum is like a mini Digitakt that just lets you gets a nice drum loop in to do the job, and you can cut it up and switch it around. Then there's a mixer and the Expert Sleepers Disting mk4 is a kind of multitool utility that just packs a lot of random utilities all together.
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https://i.imgur.com/kebJgPm.jpg
demagogue on 23/12/2020 at 02:30
Yeah I just saw that. Omri Cohen put out a (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL8hsIiEv68) video walking through them. I haven't watched it all yet, but I like what I hear & I like their style.
Jason Moyer on 23/12/2020 at 14:11
Whoa, I haven't been to the VCV Rack site in awhile. There are a metric fuckton of modules now.