I keep trying to sell the BIM (I also have a Rubberneck, a Volante and a Korg Stage Echo) because of the inscrutable interface and really only a couple of useful modes for me... but it excels so much as a special effect I haven't been able to do it.

There have been other attempts to make downloadable effects pedals in the past, most of them unsuccessful... UA have a solid reputation in plugins´ audio quality, but I don´t know if this is enough to be accepted I think most people in the big pedal market (guitar players) don´t care for studio gra...

In terms of quality, if you're running to a DAW anyway, a quality reverb plugin (UAD or Relab's 480 for instance) will be as good as any affordable reverb pedal. A pedal has the hands-on tweakability, though. Delays, tape and BBD may not be perfectly emulated ITB to you, that's a judgement call. I k...

I've found the Moisturizer to be pretty useless, to be honest. Incredibly narrow band of control - as in 'no reverb, no reverb, no reverb, 10 degrees of movement where there's a mix, then 100% wet reverb.' Same with the filter and all other controls.

The target seems to be ~28-40 - not kids but not old enough to have to bought up Minimoogs and Junos when they were $250.

Ah, nothing like having to pay return shipping to send back a defective item.

donato wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 10, 2021 1:39 pm

Holy shit! Moog is reissuing the Minimoog!

Psh, if only.

Bummed that my Bi-Phase II outputs an audible click in time with Phasor A - passable with the rate under ~10 o'clock but too much otherwise. Guess it's going back if I can get them to return an e-mail.

Now being carried at Detroit Modular in the US - just ordered a B-Stock from them

Honestly, I'd try selling it as-is - knock $8 off for a cat-bit knob and explain that up front. Most people aren't going to care, something like that is factored into the used discount.

That's a lot of 'musts' without corresponding evidence - no synth companies appear to be hurting based on the extra competition, even with COVID, no one in competition seems to be closing up shop, all the usual suspects are rolling out products regularly. The digital 303 was a widely disliked produc...

The main problem is the blatant and effortless copying of products currently in production. It will be interesting to see how this affects innovation in the future as a conundrum of sorts has been presented... Small people with innovative ideas may be hesitant towards releasing a new product only t...

are you serious? thats a fpga based hybrid and only the user interface is copied/derived from a juno 60. not even close to a juno 60. and its 2k+ which is a totally differnt idea. Moving the goalposts isn't a good look anyway, but particularly here - a Juno 60 cost a couple of grand more (in adjust...

MS-20 FS reissue - wouldn't have pre-ordered if I'd known that Sound Parcel was going to charge me in early September but I haven't gotten annoyed enough at the delays to ask for a refund. Have wanted a big boy MS-20 since I saw one on-stage with the Fall circa 2010.

Isla S2400

In the crowd of synth makers, Behringer seems to me the most punk, in-your-face, fuck you, hahahahahaa, teenage of the bunch. Which isn't actually distasteful to me. It's not something to aspire to, but it is more than mildly entertaining to watch. And often cringey. Harassing people via lawsuits c...

the interesting questions (to my mind) come down to what makes Behringer different than other companies who copy old designs. I'm not the one to try to articulate exactly what they are, but i think that putting out a blatant copy of a current product, they keystep, is different than copying a 40 ye...

thats not ok but he is running a big company and actually seems to treat workers way better than the competition. have you been there when he personally lied and bullied? i kind of know the man and he is not the type. one of his officers might be? He's the face and primary beneficiary of the compan...

then somebody like U.B comes along and does a very deep market analysis which results in a list of stuff that sounds amazing but is totally overhyped and -priced by now. the infamous i-will-copy-all-that-for-you-at-a-reasonable-price list, and actually does exactly that and better than all the othe...

Let me ask this: how is Behringer doing anything worse than all of these builders making clones of Buchla, Serge, Roland, Yamaha CS80 (you know who you are)? Lawsuits against individuals and harassment (and lying about charity). It's actually extra disappointing - I support making affordable versio...

winn3r wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:52 am

Also starts clipping way too quickly, so better save some extra cash for an attenuator to put before it

Definitely - no issue with synths yet but when I put it behind a Strymon Iridium or HX Stomp going into my interface, it clipped incredibly easy with longer decay times.

Torn on this so far - went for it on a whim, thinking it could be my one stop reverb pedal shop (ie sell my OTO Bam and it's minimal interface) and flying faders are cool. Compared to the UAD 224 and Relab 480, the plugins win pretty handily. ValhallaVintageVerb probably also wins, but it requires m...

re: how it will be used - My 'real' music computer has an Apollo Twin X that only has two inputs so until I have more space to get some kind of ADAT preamp setup, I think I'm going to get a Tascam Model 12 or 16 when my S2400 arrives and do an all-hardware setup with the S2400 - delay and reverb on ...

Drum machine is commonly used to describe an instrument that creates sounds on its own. Sampler describes a machine that records and plays back audio files - quite often of drum sounds but also of loops and melodic sounds. The S2400 is pretty obviously a sampler and calling it a drum machine would b...

Novation's keybeds (Summit is the same as the SL Mk3 series IIRC) feel shallower and a touch lighter than the Fatar keybeds I've used (Prophet/Matriarch). Not worse but different. The velocity curves work better for me than Sequential, though. My Summit's keybed is even and I got it swapped out for ...

'60s Fender metallics (ice blue, firemist silver, sherwood green, etc.) with matching headstocks make Jazzmasters and Jags sound better.