any analog synth users here? post your analog shit
pic related, my eurorack modular which I love more than I love my own silver-haired mother
>>65098483
>dat intellijel
>>65098483
Jeez, how much did you spend on this?
i have an op-1 and a microkorg
>>65098505
the Atlantis is pretty cool but it doesn't do throbbing bass like the Frequency Central System X stuff on the top row
>>65098515
a lot
and then a lot more
modular synths are a big black hole to throw money into
>>65098527
i've never used any system x stuff. ill have to check them out
>>65098545
I just finished building them last week, two System X VCOs and two VCFs, they are the best sounding modules in there
the akai rhythm wolf i have has an analog bass synthesizer. Not the best but it has me intrigued. I have been experimenting with hooking the rhythm wolf up to effects pedals and I've been enjoying myself. I'm looking into getting a minibrute or microbrute. Which is better?
>>65098483
Autism: the instrument
How do you even play that, you fucking nerd?
>tfw want one but don't want to spend however much ungodly amounts of money just for something to screw around with since I don't really make any music
>>65098562
MakeNoise DPO high five
I really need to put my shit in a better case
>>65098577
Generally with a keyboard. Do you even know what a synth is?
>>65098562
hows that clouds treating you?
>>65098577
Arturia Beatstep Pro sequencer
and it's got seven channels of MIDI to CV so it can be triggered from my DAW
>>65098590
>Generally with a keyboard
Do you even know what a modular synth is?
>>65098590
No. I can't play a single instrument or read music.
>>65098583
oh wait, it's not a DPO
as you were
>>65098577
those black units with the gold zig zags
>>65098562
I like the sound of the Korg but the CV is Hz/Volt so I hear it's a pain to get them to work with modular stuff
>>65098621
what he said, the MakeNoise Pressure Points. Plug those through a voltage quantizer, spin the knobs, listen to the weird noises.
>>65098599
I don't hate it but it's my least favorite module I own. If I planed to do all of my composition in the modular it would be indispensable, but I don't. I'm not a fan of intelijel typically but I think I'm gonna replace it with a rainmaker.
>>65098483
I forgot, there's this too
>>65098645
I've got a module for correct conversion but I've found I prefer the non-traditional digital VCOs that have come out over the past few years.
>2016
>needing a spaceship to make a sin wave
hmm
>>65098483
nice deodorant can, good to see musicians who give priority to personal hygiene
>>65098711
>not wanting a spaceship to make a sine wave
>>65098620
I want one but there's so much shit and I've already got 3 analog voices
>>65098699
I've got one digital oscillator, the Pittsburgh DNA Symbiotic, barely use it. It just can't compete with the System X and Pittsburgh stuff. If there's one module I could happily live without then it's that one
>>65098760
The DPO sounds fantastic but it's a bit confusing to use. So many options for cross modulation it just gets chaotic in no time at all. Damn thing never makes the same noise twice.
>>65098769
Tell a lie, I've got the Telharmonic too. Another module I barely use.
warmth doesn't real
>>65099099
tru but the digital sheen do
>>65099139
muh high frequency aliasing
muh quantization noise
muh digital to analog converter resolution
>>65098527
>microkorg
>A true synthesizer with an analog modeling tone generator
get out
midi fag here, ive been using ableton for almost 2 years and just mainly make stuff with samples and field recordings.
Always been interested in analog, how does one get into analog. im also in college so money is a concern.
>>65099275
muh can't into C++
muh can't into DSP papers
>>65099354
>>65099275
muh inferior myopic process
prophet 5 and jx 3p here. love the prophet 5, jx 3p is great for live gigs. record with both but mostly just use the prophet 5.
>>65099322
First off, find out what the different parts of a synth do. VCO, VCF, VCA, ADSR, LFO, get your hea round the basic building blocks of synthesis. Watch some yootoob demos of how to get a sound out of a modular, the same process applies to all in one synths like the Minibrute but it's easier to see how it all goes together on a big modular.
Then look at individual synths or modules if you want to go modular. Muff Wiggler is the place to lurk for all info on analog gear. If money's an issue then modular isn't recommended, look at a Microbrute or Minibrute. If you think you might get into modular later then there's stuff like the Moog Mother, Dreadbox Erebus and Doepfer Dark Energy that have V/Octave patch points to connect to modular gear. Even a Roland JD-Xi has an analog engine mixed in with the digital stuff. No patch points on it though, very much a standalone monosynth from an anlog viewpoint.
The prices on analog monosynths are dropping all the time. Decide what you like then scour ebay and ask on Muff Wiggler.
>>65099545
pics or you have a Novation Xio and a cracked copy of Fruity Loops
>>65099354
screw you buster, I can Arduino with the best of them
muh MCP4922 12-bit DAC on the SPI bus
![1463556880182[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/3Je9rrt.jpg "1463556880182[1].jpg")
This is my only analog stuff.
Maybe in the future I'll get a VC10 and an Odyssey or something similar.
>>65099772
>Odyssey
I did a little sex wee when I heard Korg were doing the reissue
>$10,000 monosynth
where do I not sign up for this
>can't save any patches
>>65100735
Kek. No shit
>>65100835
lolwut there are a million analog synths with patch memory
>>65100856
Sorry, should've specified. I meant modular synths can't save patches.
>>65100866
to be fair the only point of a modular synth is to patch it
its like the audio equivalent of jerking off
>>65100931
Yeah but I don't need to put a patch cable in my ass to jerk off.
>>65100835
Take a photo
>>65101037
Yeah, OK. I'll just look through a fucking photo album whenever I want to recall a sound.
>>65101083
Embrace momentary living.
>>65098483
how do you make notes with these things? I see them a lot but I don't get it. Is there a keyboard or something? Can you play music on it or just get sounds?
>>65101767
sequencers. you can hook keyboards up but that kinda defeats the purpose.
>>65098527
>op-1
uuugh i want one so bad.
how do you like it? does it have a lot of storage for saving songs? is it easy to put them on your computer, if so, what format is it?
is the mic any good? post some stuff
>>65098572
i have a microbrute, love it really, though i dont know much of the minibrute so i can't tell you honestly which one's better. but i say go for the minibrute, just for the sequencer alone
Anyone have the Akai MPX-8? It looks cool for triggering samples and such but im not sure if its worth to buy it
>>65098483
can someone ELI5 me what the wires are connected to and why they need to be connected like that?
this thing is one fun motherfucker
just the arp editing+trigger+infinite lenght....I spent hours just fucking around with one track
>>65098483
>thousands into a mono synth
>a fucking quadraverb
>>65102858
The wires carry sounds/signals to different parts all of which affect the end sound in different ways. The cables are physically connecting different functions because there is no internal wiring. This gives the greatest flexibility in how it is used, as opposed to having the signal path pre-configured.
>>65102858
you won't really get it unless you watch these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atvtBE6t48M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJkxGvhOS-M
at least watch the first part
modulars would seem a lot cooler to me if they could play chords. every time I see a video of one on youtube it's just these random beeping noises with a randomly modulating filter on them.
the mother 32 sounds so damn juicy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCaLG6Whnls
>>65098483
got a Poly-800 here, love it lots
>>65098483
That costs tens of thousands of US dollars. I honestly don't believe you own this unless you sought out this board to make adolescents jelly, pervert.
>>65098577
no he just plugs it in straight to his buttonhole and farts out sexy synth farts
>>65103714
Not him, but /mu/ isn't just made of people doing noise or rap beats. Met a few professional music composers here. Your projection just hurts you.
>>65105109
a pro wouldn't spend that much on a monophonic toy meant for fiddling around/collecting modules
>>65102887
why aren't you on that 90s IDM steeze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2bS7Tw-l5Q
>>65102887
the Quadraverb's there for for storage until I give it to my brother, I use a Lexicon MX200 SPDIFed into the Focusrite for everything.
>>65103714
>>65098697
how can you forget about a prophet what the fuckkk
>>65105565
Simple answer - it's not that great. Seriously. The filter has no balls and the sounds need to be drowned in effects to sound good.
>>65105467
>MX200
but that's even worse nigga
>>65105655
This guy is correct. One time I posted a Prophet 08/Microkorg comparison on here and everyone preferred the microkorg.
>>65105691
Nigga, do you even multifx? The QV is a 20 year old 16-bit piece of shit. Maximum delay time is fuck nothing, it doesn't sync to MIDI clock and the memory battery dies every 18 months. The Lexicon does MIDI clock and it's 24 bit and sounds ten times better than the QV.
>>65105693
Dave Smith went fucking insane with the oscillator detuning on every fucking preset in the Prophet 08, it just ends up sounding out of tune unless you fuck about editing four lots of detune and two lots of "oscillator slop", whatever that is.
>>65105727
the MX line is shit though, like, its just for cheap people who want some verb into their rawk bands. I would never put a fucking synth to it.
get a fucking mpx1, or if you are too poor, a mpx500
>>65105781
I'm not too bothered about the reverb, I never record it. It's there for when I'm noodling around and just want a plate or a tempo-sync delay in the speakers, I can add far better reverbs in the DAW when I need to.
I might make a proper DIY plate reverb out of stainless steel though, that would be a fun project.
>>65105770
I think some of the presets are actually out of tune because of all the modulation. Highway bass is the only good one imo, everything else is way to complex.
>>65105953
I'm maybe being too hard on it, it does good string and brassy sounds and the stacked AB sounds can be really good. It just doesn't get near the low down dirty filthy bass throb that the modular can do. And when you turn up the filter resonance all the low end just disappears so it won't do any squelchy bass noises. For things like high arpeggios and pads it's really excellent, just more of a piano player's synth than a driving, angry synth for noisy fuckheads.
>>65099322
Moog mg1 falls out of tune occasionally but pretty standard intro synth. Fat bass, and all sorts of sounds to field capture, sample, loop etc.
>>65098483
how can you afford it?
>>65106081
>implying that isn't his dad's gear
>>65106096
yeah i dont imagine someone under 30 could have that kind of disposable income unless daddy gives him money.
>>65106081
>>65106096
Where do you think the money from my dad's estate went?
>>65106196
a meme synth for farting sine waves and a cheapo fx box
>>65105137
>a pro wouldn't spend that much on a monophonic toy meant for fiddling around/collecting modules
The fact you think it's a toy just because it's mono proves you're just not in deep enough.
>>65106290
the mono is an afterthought. the fact still remains. most module synths are for hobbyists and math PhDs that don't even record anything, they just want to pretend they're in a spaceship making pew pew sounds. lol even OP just admitted he doesn't record anything
>>65106152
>2016
>unironically not living with your parents
what's it like being a rentcuck? slaving away hours a week so your landlord can make tons of cash ;^)
>>65106366
Where did I say that I didn't record anything?
>>65106366
>OP just admitted he doesn't record anything
you do know what an octopre is for don't you?
Here is my small system that I use for vanilla mono lines and fart sounds. Thinking about adding the wogglebug and pressure points next.
Couldn't find a good pic, enjoy the pic from my feature phone.
>>65106621
>dat Pittsburgh tho
I'm watching the demo video of the Maths now, that's a crazy fucked up module. Pressure Points is fun but it's much more fun if you have the Brains expander with it so it reads clock.
>tfw jumo 106 has been out for repairs for a month now
I thought I was gonna have it back by now.
>>65106904
bummer
I always figure that when a guy takes a long time fixing gear, he either doesn't have the parts or he's got no idea how to fix it and he's just hoping it gets better by itself
>>65098483
Fuck man, that's glorious.
I have a TB-303 and a Moog Voyager. That's my synth brag but honestly the Moog is boring compared to what you can make on a modular. I just can't part ways with it cuz it feels like a piece of furniture.
Lately I have been making tons of music using a sampler on the computer. I might build a modular synth to trigger a little analog renaissance in my life.
>>65098577
Modulars are pretty autistic, but I have no doubt that in the right hands people could make amazing music with them. Unfortunately, most modular people just make noise and post shitty videos on YouTube of them dicking around on $10,000 rigs.
I just think it's amazing how there's always going to be a bitter poor person every single time without fail trying to shit on people having fun with expensive synths.
>>65107152
Yeah I mean who doesn't love people with more money than sense.
>>65102714
Almost everyone in the fucking industry uses an OP-1 now. AnCo especially, and over at Warp Records.
>>65107167
>stop having fun
it's their money my nigga
cry when someone spends yours
>>65106975
Come on, you can't sell a Moog Voyager. You'd miss it instantly and pine for its glorious, throbbing, pulsing squelch in no time. Nothing sounds like a Moog, nothing comes close.
>>65107008
I'm far more interested in playing something that at least sounds like music. Youtube is full of pricks who just fuck about plugging the LFO into the frequency mod input so it sounds like a fucking car alarm.I'm a big fan of the Doepfer voltage quantizer, precisely because you can feed it random voltages and it tunes them into notes of a scale.
>>65106152
Yeah obviously there are always little rich niggas but there are young adults who make money. Seems like people are making a killing selling le dope t-shirts, for example.
>100+ posts
>op still hasn't posted how it sounds
>>65107553
I was kinda hoping this would be a thread about analog synths in general rather than just mine.
>>65107226
When i saw panda using it made me want it even more. too bad it can do much more than just making beats but i've never heard any unique stuff coming from it.
this is great though
https://youtu.be/nPG56n5gTYM?t=31m34s
