Yeah – you’d have to see some side-by-side comparisons to features to be sure but I suspect they’re equally capable units. For me it’s the live changes you can do that’s so much fun. Minimal setup required – just start playing and fiddle with the knobs ”til you get a sound you like.
And after not much time, you can figure out what everything does without having to know any music theory.
[I took an electronic music class in 1990 and played with an ARP and Moog.. but I honestly didn’t care about the wave functions and stuff… I just wanted access to the ancient analog synths with the patch cables along with their multitrack recorder. Totally worth it]
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my horrid final project for the class. Programming the sequences was fun, no idea how to do it now, 25 years later. I think I barely knew what I was doing THEN either… it was two separate keyboards I was using, patch cables everywhere… no idea how I did now… but I passed so I guess it was good enough for the teacher.
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well, I hope you didn’t get past 4:30 then… even on the big-reel 4 track –> cassette –> computer, the ear piercing tones remain… ugh… lol – I was 18 yrs old. Then again, I’d make almost the same now. I haven’t changed. I like annoying noises.
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I just wanted to get this stuff OFF cassettes collecting dust and get them “out there” somehow. Still have dozens of cassettes of piano playing, Korg stuff – from age 8 onwards. I hate the fact that they’re just collecting dust, magnetic fields moving the particles around, disintegrating.
Gave up on trying to “do songs” a long time ago. Too much pressure smile emoticon I just enjoy myself.
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Yeah, I’m not a fan of most computer music software. I mean I kinda understand it, but it seems very SLOW and tedius. I like on-hand, fast, speedy.
I like built-in stuff better too. http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/pixitracker/ is the only computer synth I kinda like. Works like mariopaint – chiptunes. SO fun to use.
Oh Ill have to find a pic of my fostex… I PROBABLY have it in a box somewhere unless I sold it on eBay a long time ago and forgot.
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