The Synth Thread...

[StevenO]

The Ms-10 looks really cool, for sure. I even have a soft spot for the 770.

[OffYourFace]

The 770 is amazing. Not the best for bass but it’s a great synth.

[Zork]

The bassist of High Tone is playing an MS-10 at least half of the set and sounds awesome:
https://youtu.be/5QZNanyfZ7o

[Kent]

Here's what it is looking like now. I designed a custom case and had a friend in Paris build it up. It has allowed me to consolidate my 18-panel and 10-panel cases with room to spare whilst housing all of my previously sidelined modules. Does anyone wish to buy my 18-panel case?

[StevenO]

Yowzers.

I'm getting Flintstones vibes from it, like it would tip a car over...

Very cool. Very Tonto.

[mackerelmint]

Dude.

There's just something about a modular that looks like you could fly a spaceship with it.

And I just can't wrap my head around trying to program one. But I'm sure glad that other people can, and post their pictures!

[Kent]

That rig is more fat than that rack of dino-ribs. Love it to death.

mackerelmint, The Buchla stuff is relatively easy to understand once someone explains how Don Buchla thought and what his goals were. He differed from pretty much everyone else but those differences made for coherent performance systems and not just a collection of modules in a rack. He performed with the system himself and it shows. They are more ergonomic (he designed interfaces for astronauts @ NASA) and packed with performance features.

The only downside is the cost although the does help to slow one's G.A.S. and forces one to actually learn the damn modules more fully. I'm super-certain that you could program up something enjoyable within an hour of being shown the ropes.

[oid]

Anyone know about this Toraiz AS-1? Seems like the best x0x style box since the 777. The controls are not very well thought out, just a few hardwired controls and the rest being done with a knob and a menu or software editor, but hell a full single voice Prophet with each of its 999 patches having its own 64 note sequence, a ribbon controller with a latch feature, seems like great fun. It would be pretty much perfect if it had a matrix style interface, but at ~$400USD it is rather tempting despite the ridiculous interface. Anyone have some first hand experience they can share?

[DesmondWafers]

Just came in today. I was thinking about getting a sub37 a while back, but this is perfect for me. No digital menu, no presets and sounds HUGE. Already a pretty dirty sounding synth, the clangy spring reverb complements it so well. Modularity is new to me, but that makes it all the more exciting.

And perhaps most importantly, it's named grandmother.

[Zork]

Well done!

[StevenO]

That looks awesome. Seems like they really knocked it out of the ballpark with that one.

[Zork]

I finally bought me a Waldorf Blofeld after having wanted one for years. I thougt I'd prefer the keyboard version but decided for the desktop unit for easier transport. It looks less good and doesn't have the sample option installed, but I really don't want to lug around another big keyboard along with my Moog. The preset sounds are mostly crappy old school dance sounds but the interface is very self explaing and clever designed. I'm looking forward to tinker around and design my own presets with it. This is a truly powerful synthesizer and sounds very good. Will post pics of my full live rig later.

[oid]

I just got a Blofeld desktop after wanting one for a long time as well! It showed up about 2 hours ago and I have been playing with it since. I am really liking this synth. It almost replaces my Micron, the FM and sync is not as in depth though, and it does not have the awesome tracking generator. Right now I want to just offload my Micron but I suspect that is just because of the ease of editing on the Blofeld and once the newness wears off I will return to loving the Micron and its interface which is slow by comparison but quite quick once you learn its quirks and it forces you to form the sound and how to create it in your head before sitting down with it if you want to get anywhere with some speed. The Blofeld was worth the wait, took a few years to finally snag one at a good price and it looks unused, has the Analog Voltage sound pack is loaded in place of the factory ones, nothing special though. Will be initializing them all tonight so I can have a clean slate.

Odd thing about the Blofeld, you have to turn on the FM on all three oscillators before FM works on any of them, you can have the depth at zero on two of them and just modulate one, but have to have it on. This makes no sense in any world.

[mackerelmint]

Aw shit! Back that analog voltage package up, man! Don Solaris is a hell of a programmer, and those are great sounds that are worth the money. It'd be a real shame to just get rid of them unceremoniously.

[oid]

I never do anything 'unceremoniously,' generally there is at least some blood and a dead language or two involved.