Re: [AH] Binson Echorec - what is so special about them?

From Florian Anwander
Sent Fri, Apr 5th 2019, 14:29

Hi Jesus

 > you could say this of any piece of vintage gear to be honest
Not for all. Todays digital delay machines sound much better, and even 
the digital re-emulations of old tape/disc-delays are superior to the 
originals.

But for other gear I still wait yearningly for a modern implementation 
of the seventies or eighties original.

Two simple examples:
A polyphonic synth with the basic voice architecture of the Yamaha 
CS-Series: velocity sensitive Hi/Lowpass-filtering on saw/rect with a 
sine from the same VCO which is routed parallel to the VCA. This is 
soundwise such a mighty architecture with astonishing few parameters - 
but we are still waiting for its revival.

Juno-6 -  THE simple hands on polyphonic synth with completely direct 
parameter access with full scale 5 octave keyboard, with an arpeggiator 
/ sequencer stepped by triggers.
Behringer started the project "Deepmind" with exactly this promise, and 
the outcome was an feature overloaded thing, with awful menuediving.
Roland is already very close with the SH-01a, maybe they learn that the 
worlds population does not consist of beeings with japanese child-hands.

Regards
Florian


Am 05.04.2019 um 15:38 schrieb Jesús Gallego:
> Truth hurts but you could say this of any piece of vintage gear to be honest.
>
>> They sound like awful 70ies echoe-machines and old geeks, who are now 
>> in the last years of their working life, can now afford to buy one 
>> for ridiculous prices to make a dream come true, which they had 45 
>> years ago ... That is what is special about Binson Echorecs.