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Broadwave
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| Joe Gerardi wrote: | I don't get the OSCar thing- it was a short-lived and not very popular synth.
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It was designed and built here in the UK by the same team that gave us the Wasp. It sold very well at the time, but not outside the UK. I wasn't that bothered about it at the time (I'd just bought a Prophet 5), but I wouldn't mind one now.
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GregC
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| Broadwave wrote: | | Joe Gerardi wrote: | I don't get the OSCar thing- it was a short-lived and not very popular synth.
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It was designed and built here in the UK by the same team that gave us the Wasp. It sold very well at the time, but not outside the UK. I wasn't that bothered about it at the time (I'd just bought a Prophet 5), but I wouldn't mind one now. |
you can make room for it, somehow 
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Bertotti
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Well if Broadwave gets to really wanting this and it doesn't hit, he will just build one!  |
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Jan1
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With Behringer the clone market is going to get a huge boost.
You can see it in a negative light ('cheap lookalikes but nothing like the real thing', 'where's the innovation', etc.), or in a positive light ('great forgotten designs coming to life again, finally an affordable version', etc), but I am willing to bet that with the entrance of Behringer a LOT of musicians will be spending their money on the revived old synth designs.
Personally I'm more interested in something new and innovative, but I can see the appeal of having for instance an ARP2600 clone in your (home-)studio. |
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GregC
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| Jan1 wrote: | With Behringer the clone market is going to get a huge boost.
You can see it in a negative light ('cheap lookalikes but nothing like the real thing', 'where's the innovation', etc.), or in a positive light ('great forgotten designs coming to life again, finally an affordable version', etc), but I am willing to bet that with the entrance of Behringer a LOT of musicians will be spending their money on the revived old synth designs.
Personally I'm more interested in something new and innovative, but I can see the appeal of having for instance an ARP2600 clone in your (home-)studio. |
I think we, as musicians, have to consider that business people ( who understand the industry and/or their niche) run these cos and make product decisions based on cost/profit etc. If they make faulty decisions, there are consequences.
I think its that clinical. Having worked for Sony for 9 yrs ( and other tech cos) has given me that perspective.
Failure is not cheap.
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Broadwave
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| GregC wrote: | | you can make room for it, somehow |
Hmmm... Possible I suppose. I've just tidied up my studio, so I now have room to swing a relatively large cat without the poor blighter incurring concussion
| Bertotti wrote: | | Well if Broadwave gets to really wanting this and it doesn't hit, he will just build one! |
I only have one more project on my mind - and that's to do something about those ridiculously tiny sliders and knobs on the JP-08. It'll probably involve tears, tantrums and a box of Band-Aid.
But as far as the Minimoog is concerned... honestly? I've always thought it over-hyped  The crosstalk is dreadful, the VCO's are incapable of producing a 50% duty square wave (without a trimmer mod), both the VCF & VCA distort, and don't even get me onto the bleed from the mod wheel. It's not character - Electronically, it's bad design, and always has been. But... BUT - it's probably still one of the best synths out there as far as playability is concerned, apart from the 2600
Can you imagine the uproar if a $3K analogue mono synth was produced today with theses problems - it would get slated.
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