Jason Moyer on 17/11/2022 at 18:26
And this is dropping today too.
[video=youtube;itYRgI1wluk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itYRgI1wluk[/video]
[video=youtube;tNBzSMB6sS8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNBzSMB6sS8[/video]
Komag on 19/11/2022 at 13:00
It sounds sooooooo good! Something that baffles me though, how can a modern synth still only have a very small number of polyphony voices, in this cases just 6?? I can't play 7 keys at the same time? Seems like a limitation from 40 years ago. I'm sure I'm not understanding something correctly.
Aja on 19/11/2022 at 23:05
I think it's because people demand analog voices, which means seven times the number of components for a seven-voice synth. You want more voices, you either pay up or get digital.
Jason Moyer on 20/11/2022 at 03:36
Yeah, in the Prophet-6/OB-6/Trigon-6 you have voice cards with analog VCO's, VCF's, and VCA's, and those things add up. I'm fairly certain that, unlike the Take-5 (which I have) the voices are made of discrete components instead of being a voice-on-a-chip (the Take-5 has a chip for each voice with the VCO/VCF, and the VCA is digital), so you have 18 VCO circuits alone. That's a lot of parts, even if the LFO's and EG's are digital. The other thing with Sequential (and Moog) is that they manufacture as much of the instrument as possible in the USA, which isn't cheap. Packaging is a concern too; on the Korg Prologue there are 16 voices, but they barely fit into the massive case, and they get super hot.
SubvertizingOrg on 24/11/2022 at 01:09
Edit: NEVERMIND!!!
Komag on 24/11/2022 at 13:14
Thanks Jason, I knew they were analog but didn't realize that even nowadays it still takes up so much space, expense, and even heat!
Jason Moyer on 25/11/2022 at 16:21
It's better than it used to be, but a lot of the synths with tons of voices (the Prologue, the Moog One especially) had massive tuning issues when they came out, and a lot of people are annoyed that the One has a fan in it. The inside of the Sequential 6 voice synths seems like it has a ton of room, but they'd probably need to add a fan too which is something that seems to piss everyone off.
Aja on 22/2/2023 at 21:47
Another song I recorded got released last week on the same label as before, Imaginary North.
Please enjoy my wildly inaccurate but still hopefully pleasing Brian Eno impression:
(
https://open.spotify.com/album/7upDx7OdHN0zWO6ytkXWOE)
(And if you like it, check out the (
https://open.spotify.com/album/5J0KgIr4Thgdz4TIFHRezu) rest of the comp. They did a great job of sequencing it into a cohesive whole.)
In the interest of this being a synthesizer thread, here's the gear rundown. The main sound is a sampled Rhodes via a Nord Electro 3 recorded through a Twin Reverb, hence all of the hiss, which I decided to emphasize rather than hide by adding stereo recordings of me fiddling around with an Ebow on a guitar. Minilogue does most of the TNG-style drones and the retro-sounding notes at the end. And Shapeshifter's doing some chords, too, plus the deep bass pluck that appears periodically, which was my attempt to directly rip off a sound Eno uses on (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRiNpVslI_c) Lizard Point (at 2:29).
Sulphur on 23/2/2023 at 10:30
I'm not a synth-head or a big Eno fan, but I will say that that's just a gorgeous sound on the main instrument, and the ambient wash of the harmonies/drones complements the melody perfectly. Supremely pleasant indeed.
Aja on 23/2/2023 at 20:37
Thank you very much, my friend.
