New toys

[F5D]

I will get some new toys soon.

I ordered a Moog Little Phatty stage edition (CANCELED) as well as SM Pro Audio Nano Patch (http://www.smproaudio.com/NANOPATCH.htm) passive volume controller and Proco Deucetone (http://www.ratdistortion.com/deucetonerat.htm) distortion pedal for my guitar. I will report later what I think about them. :)


I played a Moog Voyager in a local musicstore a week ago and fell in love with it. However, it costs so much that I decided to get a LP instead just to get the Moog sound.

I earlier owned SM Pro Audio M-Patch 2 but sold it just after they announced their new nano patch. The MP2 had too much features for me and a useless headphone amp. The new nano is cheaper and has only the volume knob and mute button, just what I need, nothing more.

I also decided to get an analog guitar distortion pedal for my electric guitar to get better distortion sounds. Let's see how the deucetone works...

[Merlot]

Jesus man! You have some deep pockets (or in serious debt :-) with all the equipment you got! j/k congrats and let us hear some patches when you dig in!

[Hollowcell]

Nice new stuff for sure! Use the pedal with the Moog instead though. ;)

[F5D]

:D In fact the Moog is quite cheap because I ordered it from USA. They have the right price for the moog and the exchange rate of dollar -> euro is very good right now. I don't have to worry about the power supply voltage either because the Moog can adapt to any voltage between 100-250 and 50-60Hz. The moog, nano patch and deucetone will cost me the same as the moog costs here in europe alone. :)

Anyway, I will post some demo clips when I get them. And I will use the deucetone with moog too. ;)

The nano patch is also very interesting product and I guess many people will buy it to avoid digital volume control. It costs about 50 euros/dollars. IMO everybody should use passive attenuation with any audio interface which uses digital volume control.

[F5D]

edit. Ok, I started 2 new threads to make discussion easier...

[jasedee]

Im in The USA at the moment and went into a Guitar Centre and played with a LP Stage... it's OK, but wierd how when you want to adjust a parameter you have to bring the knob back to it's original value...

Also sucks not being able to control Resonance and cutoff at the same time. Looked great, but I dont think I'll be buying one.

I did get a chance to finally play a Virus TI though... YUMMMMM

[F5D]

Im in The USA at the moment and went into a Guitar Centre and played with a LP Stage... it's OK, but wierd how when you want to adjust a parameter you have to bring the knob back to it's original value...
You can choose from the menu how this works. There are 3 different modes. You can completely turn off the feature and the knob instantly jumps to the value which it points when you start tweaking.

Also sucks not being able to control Resonance and cutoff at the same time. Looked great, but I dont think I'll be buying one.
I agree that dedicated knobs for both cutoff and resonance would have been nice but after thinking about it more I very rarely tweak both at the same time and I hate filter resonance anyway so I use it only if I make some acid bass sounds. Usually it's turned to 0.

I did get a chance to finally play a Virus TI though... YUMMMMM
Yes, it's a nice synth. Anyway, I have decided to wait for TI2 which will use firewire connection for real 24bit audio transfer and better resource allocation with more powerful dsp's and will also include an adat connection for 4x stereo (or 8 mono) outputs and a standalone Virus Editor (not just a plugin) with perfectly working standalone mode. ;)

At least I hope so that access have learned alot from the TI1 problems. :D

Edit. I canceled the moog because the delivery time was too long. Anyway, I may purchase it later this year or next year.

[DIGITAL SCREAMS]

Anyway, I have decided to wait for TI2 which will use firewire connection for real 24bit audio transfer and better resource allocation with more powerful dsp's and will also include an adat connection for 4x stereo (or 8 mono) outputs and a standalone Virus Editor (not just a plugin) with perfectly working standalone mode. ;)

At least I hope so that access have learned alot from the TI1 problems. :D

Wow, great minds think alike. Personally, im holding out for the MKII now. I've just gone a bought my first workstation....the Yamaha Motif XS8. Hopefully by the time ive paid it off...the TIii will be hiting the market...or anounced.

DS

[Timo]

Mk2 for me, too.

[ten]

Sold my Virus TI (had the 61keys then the polar then the desktop) as I just didnt enjoy programming it or the sound either.

Dont know why but the more I used it the less I liked it. Maybe its because I hear it so often in the music I listen to but I just had to get shot of it. I also sold the nord lead 3 and yamaha CS6R.

What I did purchase though was one of the new Studio Electonics CODE synths based on the Omega. Its an 8voice analog with overdrive distortion. This thing is such a breath of fresh air after coming from the virus and nord. I already own the A6 which is great but its so nice having another analog to play with. I know its cliche to say but analog just sounds so much nicer than VA, to my ears anyways.

Will do some demos for you in the coming weeks.... heres a pic...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/t.englefield/code12.jpg



tom

[F5D]

I know its cliche to say but analog just sounds so much nicer than VA, to my ears anyways.
But you're absolutely right! Analog synths do sound better. The sound is usually alot more powerful, interesting and "alive" and no aliasing etc. I already commented your new purchase at GS but it really looks great. I've been planning to purchase one of those SE synths for a long time. :)

[Old Vantaa Man]

What's the LP Stage all about then?

[waketek]

That Code looks and sounds killer! I have only heard some demos off the SE site. I can not wait to hear some of yours...