Everyone these days is hearing without listening. Also talking without saying a bloody thing.
Argh, this is a pet hate of mine. I have a colleague who can spend an hour talking while saying nothing. She arranged an hour meeting with me to tell why she was too busy to provide 5 minutes assistance with a problem my team was having. I cut the meeting off after 10 mins and told her we would take the remaining 50 minutes in assistance. Didn't go down very well.
Everyone these days is hearing without listening. Also talking without saying a bloody thing.
Argh, this is a pet hate of mine. I have a colleague who can spend an hour talking while saying nothing. She arranged an hour meeting with me to tell why she was too busy to provide 5 minutes assistance with a problem my team was having. I cut the meeting off after 10 mins and told her we would take the remaining 50 minutes in assistance. Didn't go down very well.
Looks like there will be another version of the 2600 with a real spring!, I would guess it has the blue Marvin paint job too.
Just downloaded and read the manual and that is exactly how I read it...an alternate version of the design, called the Blue Marvin, with an actual spring reverb.
Just finished reading the manual and there are some curious mistakes: triangle waves ID'd as sawtooth, bad description of how the Frequency Sliders work, descriptions of non-existent 'blending' capabilities (particularly with the Envelope Follower and Ring Mod sections). Who's doing the proof-reading??
Just finished reading the manual and there are some curious mistakes: triangle waves ID'd as sawtooth, bad description of how the Frequency Sliders work, descriptions of non-existent 'blending' capabilities (particularly with the Envelope Follower and Ring Mod sections). Who's doing the proof-reading??
Interesting. I have just finished reading the manual for my Nord A1 lead. Amongst other errors & omissions: at one point it seems there were 100 programmes per bank ( not 50), and to get from programme 1:1 to 8:50, you just need to keep turning an encoder until it wears out. In reality, you press shift and scroll through banks 1 to 8 and then move around the programmes in each bank.
The point is that even the the best of brands can have blind spots when it comes to manuals.
To be clear, I own both Nord and Behringer products.
Just finished reading the manual and there are some curious mistakes: triangle waves ID'd as sawtooth, bad description of how the Frequency Sliders work, descriptions of non-existent 'blending' capabilities (particularly with the Envelope Follower and Ring Mod sections). Who's doing the proof-reading??
Interesting. I have just finished reading the manual for my Nord A1 lead. Amongst other errors & omissions: at one point it seems there were 100 programmes per bank ( not 50), and to get from programme 1:1 to 8:50, you just need to keep turning an encoder until it wears out. In reality, you press shift and scroll through banks 1 to 8 and then move around the programmes in each bank.
The point is that even the the best of brands can have blind spots when it comes to manuals.
To be clear, I own both Nord and Behringer products.
Not sure how it works in the music gear industry, but first hand observations in the software sector shows that content writers are squeezed hard to produce as many words per minute as possible. Quality obviously suffers.
Just finished reading the manual and there are some curious mistakes: triangle waves ID'd as sawtooth, bad description of how the Frequency Sliders work, descriptions of non-existent 'blending' capabilities (particularly with the Envelope Follower and Ring Mod sections). Who's doing the proof-reading??
Interesting. I have just finished reading the manual for my Nord A1 lead. Amongst other errors & omissions: at one point it seems there were 100 programmes per bank ( not 50), and to get from programme 1:1 to 8:50, you just need to keep turning an encoder until it wears out. In reality, you press shift and scroll through banks 1 to 8 and then move around the programmes in each bank.
The point is that even the the best of brands can have blind spots when it comes to manuals.
To be clear, I own both Nord and Behringer products.
Not sure how it works in the music gear industry, but first hand observations in the software sector shows that content writers are squeezed hard to produce as many words per minute as possible. Quality obviously suffers.
I agree. my point was that errors & omissions in documentation are to the sole preserve of one brand or another. It is a common theme.
Just finished reading the manual and there are some curious mistakes: triangle waves ID'd as sawtooth, bad description of how the Frequency Sliders work, descriptions of non-existent 'blending' capabilities (particularly with the Envelope Follower and Ring Mod sections). Who's doing the proof-reading??
Just finished reading the manual and there are some curious mistakes: triangle waves ID'd as sawtooth, bad description of how the Frequency Sliders work, descriptions of non-existent 'blending' capabilities (particularly with the Envelope Follower and Ring Mod sections). Who's doing the proof-reading??
you ever read an old Roland manual?
Hah!
Try an original PPG manual, translated into English -- this is where the real fun begins.
I remember many years ago working for a music store and a church had ordered a Roland Digital Piano (perhaps an FP8?) I sold it to the Vicar, and helped him put it in his car. An hour or so later he shows up and my first thought is “well this isn’t good”. He didn’t have the piano with him, only the manual. He came in and had a grin on his face. He showed me the manual. There is a part where you have to screw the legs into the bottom of the piano, but whoever did the translation, translated it literally, and it came out as “fuck the legs into the piano”. Needless to say I died. Thankfully he was cool.
I remember many years ago working for a music store and a church had ordered a Roland Digital Piano (perhaps an FP8?) I sold it to the Vicar, and helped him put it in his car. An hour or so later he shows up and my first thought is “well this isn’t good”. He didn’t have the piano with him, only the manual. He came in and had a grin on his face. He showed me the manual. There is a part where you have to screw the legs into the bottom of the piano, but whoever did the translation, translated it literally, and it came out as “fuck the legs into the piano”. Needless to say I died. Thankfully he was cool.
You know we now have to find said manual, I have found the manual for the FP8 but that does not go into detail about fitting the stand, and looking for a manual for the FPS8 stand there are no matches :-(
Stuff: Roland:SH-201/U-110/S-330/TR-626/M-48 Akai: miniAK/S6000 Yamaha:DX9/HS8/xs7 Korg:05R/W/AX10G Alesis: Vortex MK1 CME: UF70 classic V2/WIDI Behringer: DSP2024Px2/UMC204HD/MS-101/VC340/D/TD-3/RD-8/RD-6/XR12 MOTU: MIDI Timepiece AV ESI:1010e and a load of primarily handmade cables.
I find it subtly different, but then again I wasn't using my OG 2600 for that type of sounds back in the days, although the last bit is rather tasty ...
Sound of the raw oscillators in those demos sounds great, once the modulation starts to increase it starts to sound a little bit messier and not a good way. But I think that's down to programming rather than the device itself... Will defo think about picking one up next year I think
yes... that reverb stinks...they could have stuck a bbd delay in with some mod inputs... that would have enhanced the sound palette, avoided the cost of a real spring tank (which is apparently why they went digital verb) and kept it all analog...
