Muff's Modules & More

vox345 · Last edited by vox345 on Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:20 pm; edited 3 times in total

add to the list please.if it's like your secret weapon, pm me and i won't list it. Besides what's on main sites like Musicians Friend, Sweet Water, Samash, Vintage Synth Explorer, and Sonic State, I know of these:

Tom Oberheim SEM
Redsound darkstar 2
macbeth micromac
EMW WCS-1
Future Retro XS
Analogue Solutions Telemark
Spectral Audio Neptune 2
Spectral Audio ProTone and Neptune 1
SL-1 Synthlab - MODE MACHINES
PAiA - Fatman Analog Mid Synth
macbethMicromac x series
emwP-synth-1
emw Micromodular
Atomosynth Koe Desktop
analogue solutions Station X and station Y
analogue solutions semblance
analogue solutions leipzig and leipzig-k
mfbDominion-X
MFB-SYNTH LITE
MFB-SYNTH 3
MFB-SYNTH
Dominion
ruskys.net Museum of Soviet synthesizers
Microzwerg
Megazwerg
Nanozwerg
KRAFTZWERGe
domino eowave
Telemark semimodular analog synth
Leipzig monosynth
vermona perfourmer mkii and mk2

Junk Rhythm · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:33 pm Post subject:

No, no, no, no, no. None of that PMing secret weapons. If anyone is hiding secret weapons of mass distraction, we demand that they are shown out in the open. The public demands that secret WMDs be known. Who's holding?

RealDudes · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:39 pm Post subject:

this is my secret weapon

toppobrillo · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:23 pm Post subject:

hardandknobby.com is still available It's motherfucking bacon yo

mome rath · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:28 pm Post subject:

microKORG

ndkent · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 8:08 pm Post subject:

Don't get the criteria, seems like a hodgepoge list imho. Stuff out now, stuff announced but you can't get, a couple discontinued items, the entire ruskys.com site...

Well like just about everything ever made before the Rhodes Chroma (the first one slider interface) had knobs or sliders with the exception of some preset synths, though I am lusting over the Chroma Enabler.

Anyway my all time favorite hard to find knobby synth is also an add-on interface to something with no knobs

http://m.matrixsynth.com/2008/01/jellinghaus-dx-programmer.html

though I have a sneaky feeling they suffer from pot jitter

Jason Brock · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 8:35 pm Post subject:

It's spam. He did this on GS too.
(see the web link buried in the list?)

vox345 · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 8:43 pm Post subject:

this list is to broaden my/others' synth search.
I linked the russian synths so i didn't have to copy paste all their names.

sydilaxe · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:13 pm Post subject:

sydilaxe · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:14 pm Post subject:

But seriously...how are any of these non-mainstream or hard to find?

Technosaurus Cyclodon...now THAT is hard to find these days.

abstraktor · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:48 pm Post subject:

Why would anyone want to pm you with their "secret weapon" when the whole point of Muffs is to share knowledge? seriously, i just don't get it

vox345 · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:32 pm Post subject:

^because they like having something that isn't 'played out' but are willing to share it with only me.

since yous blew this way outa context even though i'm sure u know what i mean, i changed the title from 'non-mainstream hard to find knobby synths' to something like 'knobby synths less popular than these?"
now yer all gonan say "oh ur list is popular!" (cause yer such cool synth aphisionatos [sp?])

mome rath · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:06 pm Post subject:

meatcliff · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:12 pm Post subject:

vox345 · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:19 pm Post subject:

good luck w/ life if u didn't get what this thread was about.

mome rath · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:24 pm Post subject:

BananaPlug · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:37 pm Post subject:

It's better this way hihi

Whaddya mean off topic! (hides)

mome rath · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:44 pm Post subject:

bahaha

meatcliff · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:03 pm Post subject:

If a synth isn't a popular one, isn't it inherently a secret weapon of anyone that uses it?

A number of synths on that list are still pretty popular considering how few new production knobby synths are actually available.

You can add Flower Electronics Little Boy Blue and Jealous Heart to the list if you'd like.

ignatius · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:42 pm Post subject:

this thread smells a bit like gearslutz eek!

ignatius · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:45 pm Post subject:

"played out"

is basically bullshit anyways.. sh-101 is old as hell been around everywhere but if you can't make a decent bass sound with it then you need to find a new line of work.

really, it's not the gear.. plenty of people make pretty awesome music with synths that are "played out".

why would anyone PM you their secret weapon anyways??? if it's a secret weapon??? then who the hell are you that they are willing to surrender that info???

bleh bleck. sorry, don't mean to sound harsh but this is all just stupid.

mome rath · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:58 pm Post subject:

i even gagged twice in the car tonight thinking about what that dog horfed up on the floor

it was like a giant, clay-colored tootsie roll
it smelled like someone pooped on a bowl of shrimp-flavored ramen noodles

and then there was the thick, yellow, dog-vomit mucus

this was my alarm clock waah

ignatius · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:02 pm Post subject:

Noha · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:12 pm Post subject:

dan_k · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:19 pm Post subject:

My secret weapon is a guitar.

Wait, oh no! is it all played out now?

meatcliff · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:20 pm Post subject:

mome rath · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:32 pm Post subject:

meatcliff · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:37 pm Post subject:

I had a microKORG here for six months, turned it on once - played with it for 15 minutes before giving it to someone.

I should have kept it! it was fun.

SECRET WEAPON.

mome rath · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:38 pm Post subject:

i loved my microKORG

JohnLRice · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:51 pm Post subject:

vox345 · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:24 pm Post subject:

well then how could i have asked this better? i never heard of 99% of them untill laltely i've been reading a lot of synth forums. Am i supposed to read every page of all the synth forums!? google 'synth'? google 'synths for sale' google 'synth manufacturer'? i considered them hard to find and non manstream cause figured GC, Sam A, SW, sonic state would be all over them if not, and i said i already searched through all those. these are rhetorical questions and most of you are pricks. the end.

jonah · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:52 pm Post subject:

I'm guessing some of the negativity is because the question's kinda trainspottery or missing the forest for the trees to put it politely. Personally, I wasted too much time when I was younger buying into the gear collector mindset and honestly I'm a bit angry at myself for being duped and distracted from what I really enjoy which is making music, not listing gear.

I'm mean, you aren't even asking about the SONIC qualities of the synth. Actually, obscure would be a cool description of a synths sonics, it would tell me more that fat, warm and woody!

Anyway, in the spirit of the thread I had an Atomo Mochika, which I found to be super crappy. Very limited sonic possibilities. Analog doesn't equal good sound. It was alright for drones. The worst part was that the build quality was terrible.

abstraktor · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 5:13 pm Post subject:

richard · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 5:22 pm Post subject:

most of you are pricks. the end.

lol

We are indeed. You sir, are one perceptive gear slut

Junk Rhythm · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 5:25 pm Post subject:

abstraktor · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 5:28 pm Post subject:

vox345 · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 6:31 pm Post subject:

i'm not a gear slut, but don't want just one synth.Of all the synths I said i know of already, nothing really does it for me... I know there's more out there than on the sites I listed, but dunno how to search em out.

ignatius · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 7:06 pm Post subject:

carynrich · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:38 pm Post subject:

a tom oberheim SEM didn't do it for you. wow, thats pretty bad bro. maybe you tried the midi version, cause the patch panel It's peanut butter jelly time!

Drumdrumdrumdrum · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:20 pm Post subject:

Around here we replace all the knobs on our secret weapons.

screaming goo yo

vox345 · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 1:38 am Post subject:

i never tried the oberheim SEM.

carynrich · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:45 am Post subject:

causticlogic · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:09 am Post subject:

Anyone notice that the Leipzig and the Telemark were mentioned twice? Does that mean they are now played out too ?!

abstraktor · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:43 am Post subject:

M. Rishi · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:05 pm Post subject:

There are no secret weapons. Any synth of significance is listed on Vintage Synth Explorer or one of the other websites previously mentioned.

I think what most new synthesists don't grasp right away is that a synth is only as great as its user. The CS80, for example, while being a piece of art, will not make you sound like Vangelis. Rather, Vangelis himself is what made the CS80 sound the way it did. There is more theory, practice, and technique in synthesis than its public image will allow you to believe.

A synth is a synth. An oscillator is an oscillator. A filter is a filter. Yes, there are plenty of nuances to these statements but at the end of the day they can all do the same thing provided they have the features. The only secret weapons are the minds twisting the knobs.

Kent · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:30 am Post subject: