From Nate Harrison Sent Fri, Oct 16th 1998, 15:26
While I agree with Kent to some extent, I will say that this crop of virtual analogs has an appeal (besides sound-wise) in the sense that they offer a lot more options than their older genuine counterparts: more polyphony, more mutlitimbrality, more outputs, and sometime even built in effects. Yes indeed the OG machines will win out soundwise in the end (but have you heard the Supernova yet?), but there's still the cost of effects boxes, needing more than one synth because the analog one you have only sends/receives on 1 MIDI channel, etc... just another opinion... peace Nate On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Chaircrusher wrote: > All of the new boxes are just fine, but in my opinion the whole retro-analog > thing is just about played out. The fact that there is enough of a market > for 'new analogues' and 'virtual analogues' indicates to me that the > wannabe market is coming into play -- there aren't enough real musicians > out there to support the R&D, manufacturing and marketing of a new synth > like the JP8000 or the Nord Lead 2, so they're designed to appeal to > amateurs with disposable income. > > If you want analogue sounds, look around for an old analogue. A jupiter6 > for 700 dollars is a lot more machine than a JP8000 at twice the price. > You have to put some effort into locating instruments, but you can get > the real deal for less than the tacky imitation. > >