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Ghetto TR-707
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Date:
Wed, 08 Mar 2000 01:25:40 PST
Subject:
(idm) Oops, gear talk
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this was my original message, got a stoopid mailer daemon thing again for my laughable misspellings of hyperreal (sad I know) My goal is to find a perfect balance between cheap gear and MAXIMUM live improvisation. The kit list, rather shitty as of yet, but making do Yamaha CS1x [synth/master kbrd] Roland MC-505 [beats, noises] Akai S1000 [even weirder noises, harder beats] Yamaha SU-10 [phrase sampler] Alesis MMT-8 [seq for CS1x, SU, and S1000] Mac running MOTU Performer and Rebirth 2.0 (I actually bought it, so there) I really want to get rid of the 505 and get everything it has, component based, but that's difficult because of some of the features it has. The sequencer can reload a pattern and all patches to original start points instantly, no matter how far off you tweak the sounds. I think that MIDI patch changes aren't as instant, am I right? The 505 has a feature where you can program a little pattern or hit or sequence or whatever, then trigger it real-time (banks of 16 sequences) It has 3 stereo outs, really nice for sending the kick, etc to a separate channel. Built in FX processor. But I want to do it all by components now. I don't want those tons of synth sounds. To replace it I'd like a: TR-707 MMT-8 x2 [or a Kawai Q-80ex] DW-8000 Some good FX processors Yamaha RY-30 (these are pretty cool from what I've heard, the poor man's R-8] Hey question: I'm dying to start out on FM synthesis, I know you all are way into that. Squarepusher, AFX, and ?-ziq all use those old FM synths to get their neato leads right? That FS1-r is floating around, but I'd rather start out on one of those cheaper old TX-whatever modules? any suggestions? ones around $125? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org