From skkatter Sent Sat, May 19th 2018, 15:25
From skkatter Sent Sat, May 19th 2018, 15:25
Is this another one of those "everything was better a long time ago" posts? -Stephen On 19 May 2018 at 05:45, steven watzon via analogue <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > The YouTube clip just sounds like piano samples played in reverse. Great if > you are Brain Eno, It also reminds me of the backing music in a lot of > today's melodrama TV shows and movies. If you are going for that type of > sound then great, just like the Moog Grandma is a Board of Canada synth, > otherwise more synth fodder. Majority of the new low end analog synths are > fodder - Not crap in the sense that they are worthless but nothing special. > Like for instance the Maxibrute, Monoloque, stuff that if it was never > released nobody would really care but I guess history repeates itself. Many > of the cheap 80s DCO synths were rubbish like Seil or a Six Track, DW6000 or > whatever were not a s good as a Jupiter 8, and made great pawn shop finds > in the 90s. Just like Duran Duran and Sunglases At Night helped sell synth > fodder in the 1980s, and the E-tard brain dead techno helped sell VA's and > grooveboxes in the 90s, now EDM and hipster pop sells SMD cheap tabletop > synths where the novelty is people getting exited over something new. One > good grace in all that would be the advent of the clones, something like an > Arp Odyssey of MS20 doesn't have to be vintage pricey. Roland gave me a > cheap VA to at least satisfy my curiosity and there are a slew of 303 clones > in every variety.