What I love about this forum is that unlike many corners of the internet you can have a discussion without people descending into discourtesy. Ah, yes, decent chaps, or "Johnson’s" as William Burroughs would have called them. But many of us are saving up for the one synth of our dreams. I wonder w ...

I almost got into this situation regarding the Arturia Polybrute, it seemed like a good idea, and "sometimes" what it does well seemed to justify the purchase, but the more I played it, the more the sound became apparent, it was too much of a one trick pony, you could say that about a lot of things ...

I’ve had this for quite awhile, but lately I’ve been using it a lot, and it’s changed to way we work, literally. I used it on a couple of our duo tracks a few weeks back, listening to them back I said to my friend "what on earth is that sound, it’s amazing" then it dawned on me it was me playing TC11 ...

I phoned Andertons about the Magnolia, but it’s only available in silk, I wanted matt.

When you say "one track" are you referring to a stereo track or a mono track?

Oh, and completely unrelated. Needed two cables for the new synth to go back to the mixer. Andertons sell 3 metre male XLR to TRS balanced cables for £9.99. They seem well enough made and even if I used fairly cheap connectors I wouldn't be able to make my own for a heck of a lot less. https://cpc. ...

Reminds of a nasty little man I met in a car showroom, just took one look at me and did a little laugh and smirked after I asked him a question about a car there, You met Swiss Toni? Ha Ha! yes, but no, this guy "was" a joke, it was an independent Porsche dealer in NW London. They had a nice ...

On the other hand, the D minor Toccata and Fugue, BWV 565, definitely doesn't read, or sound, like a Bach organ work. This is very interesting. One of my old professors, Dr.Gifford, once gave a talk to us about Bach's organ works and presented this same hypothesis. Which I would be inclined to go ...

I have trouble with the one synth challenge, as most of my pieces are done with one synth, it’s just the way I work, it’s nothing unusual or special, it’s certainly not a challenge.What would be a challenge would be to use many synths.

Oh, and completely unrelated. Needed two cables for the new synth to go back to the mixer. Andertons sell 3 metre male XLR to TRS balanced cables for £9.99. They seem well enough made and even if I used fairly cheap connectors I wouldn't be able to make my own for a heck of a lot less. https://cpc. ...

At this price point anything with the required number of inputs will do, pick one you like the look, shape of. Tsk tsk! Toni mate! You of all people should know, going for the lowest common denominator eventually bites you on the bum! Dave. You don’t have to go for the lowest, there’s a few out the ...

The only thing I’ve been tempted by is that Magnolia, not the Dulux version! But I know what will happen, I’ll end up trying to get it to sound like everything else I’ve got, that’s the trouble with me, I sound the same on every keyboard I play. PS Eddy, I’ve just recorded a track with a sound we got ...

At this price point anything with the required number of inputs will do, pick one you like the look, shape of. Tsk tsk! Toni mate! You of all people should know, going for the lowest common denominator eventually bites you on the bum! Dave. You don’t have to go for the lowest, there’s a few out the ...

Many of the Hydrasynth presets were somewhat underwhelming as well, but when you sit down and actually program it, the sheer sonic palette becomes evident. This new synth is clearly even more capable. From an FM programming point of view, I think my FS1R is still the ultimate synth with the ability ...

* Many of the first 30 or so single-voice presets are surprisingly bland. Though there are some nice ones in there a lot of them sound like <insert any FM synth you like here>. This isn't a criticism of the synth but I would have expected ASM to put stronger ones in the 'everyone tries these out ...

At this price point anything with the required number of inputs will do, pick one you like the look, shape of.

You mean? but? I’ve already ordered one.

I have to have everything within reach, like a cockpit, my studio is a horseshoe shape, and "everything" has to be in there, I really can’t get my head around these studios that have everything all over the place, like effects racks on the floor so you have to kneel down squint and operate something ...

Sounds like peaks distorting, just flatten them out, limit or compress, don’t know if Audacity has volume editing envelopes like Reaper, but that’s what you need, just go through and reduce the spikes.

Been listening to Just Be, started out and drew me in, but then the drums came in, not a reflection on you, it’s just my drumaphobic nature.
It would have been good to think of a more unpredictable way to develope it, the sounds underpinning it sound great.

I solved this problem using two ART CLEANBoxPro Pro/Consumer level converters between my Allen & Heath GL2400 Mixer and my Dangerous Compressor patched into the master bus inserts. Works flawlessly. And as I recall it was Hugh who suggested it! So did I, balanced mixer outs to my Quad 405, and, it ...

Thats the thing with modular. NObody ever finishes music it's just bits and bobs :P Guilty of that myself with mine It’s got to the point where the time I spend rearranging, trying to think of starting points, and just not using it at all, has made me take it out of the studio altogether. Modular i ...

I’d go the vintage desk route, the number if amazing old desks in good order I see these days going for little money is incredible, something like a Midas Venice, or a Soundcraft 24 easily found for under 2k GBP.

Get Reaper, and just dive in with a few good sample packs, Spitfire Audio for example.

Bob is right, I think you’re trying to do too much here, and your expectations are way too high given your current resources. What form do your compositions take? if they are orchestral in nature you will never get the results you expect with a keyboard, you may with a decent sample library but even ...