Also, the Neumanns are very neutrally voiced. I haven't heard the Genelecs but suspect, like some of the Adam range, they may be a bit more like "pringles" with a somewhat "seasoned" top end. For some genres like EDM this voicing might be preferred by the listener, making the Neumanns seem a bit ...

I remain hopeful (one of the reasons I haven't jumped for an XK) that Hammond will eventually find the technology to create all 9 contact points. They did... years ago... in the New B3 model (and its siblings) which actually has ten physical contacts under each key (nine for the drawbars and one ...

I’d like to ask the OP a couple of questions, have you, or anyone else, been unhappy with your recordings in the past, the technical quality? and was that traced to monitoring?

I'm struggling to think why key pitch and depth would be critical for a 37 note keyboard. I mean, you're hardly gonna be playing jazz or Rick Wakeman solos on it, are you?. With that in mind the Hydrasynth Explorer would give you proper polyphonic after touch but the keybed is not standard pitch ...

Oh absolutely! I find Egyptian cotton especially good: it somehow manages to make the notes sound more exotic... I’ve got a collection of 70’s towels, lovely patterns, mushrooms, plants, fruit and vegetables, psychedelic patterns, they just set a nice mood. As for deck savers? they just seem like a ...

Ultimately, I suppose it’s the sound quality that should be top priority, and there is a difference between some of them. People wouldn’t prefer some over others if that wasn’t the case, depends what your budget is, but sonics aren’t always related to price, and a lot you just can’t tell they sound m ...

FrankF wrote: ↑Wed Dec 17, 2025 9:35 am

Arpangel wrote: ↑Wed Dec 17, 2025 9:02 am This isn’t a big issue, all you need to do is stop the dust, I use a mixture of table cloths and 70’s tea towels, I find the tea towels definitely impart sonic benefits if left on long enough.

Ah yes, the famous Ringo Starr technique.

I see we’re on/off the same planet.

Driver support.
Input/output count.
Sound quality, differences.
Plug-in environments.
USB/Thunderbolt etc.
Size, rack or desktop.
Budget!

Most of these things are easy to decide, some not, depends on your priorities.

Sold another one of my 118’s yesterday, one thing about them that has always bugged me, the random waveform isn’t slow enough, it would be perfect if they gave you an option, a jumper, that’s why I bought the 118-2 you can clock it externally. I do love Doepfer stuff though, old school, simple to und ...

This isn’t a big issue, all you need to do is stop the dust, I use a mixture of table cloths and 70’s tea towels, I find the tea towels definitely impart sonic benefits if left on long enough.

Martin Walker wrote: ↑Tue Dec 16, 2025 5:18 pm

Arpangel wrote: ↑Tue Dec 16, 2025 7:41 am I don’t know if I have a favourite module, probably Rings, as it gives me the most fun per twiddle.

Oh, I lurve that analysis Tony

Couldn’t think of anything else to say!

I'm going to test running the 118 through the Buchla voltage processor today to get unipolar voltage output into a comparator. I’ve got that processor too, it’s one of those modules that definitely does stuff when I twiddle the knobs, but that’s about how much I actually understand it, my yardstick ...

My new favorite module! And only $75! https://i.imgur.com/PYD72F7.jpg https://photos.app.goo.gl/mFSTbxwbV6YKoi157 The Doepfer A-118 module is a must-have if you're looking for an affordable way to write generative music. Just add a step sequencer and you're set. If you want more complex ...

Just a thought, there are a couple of things in readers ads that are priced suspiciously low, just wondering if they may be scams, they are quite obvious if you know the scene, keyboards, synths.

I’ve been using an 1820 for about four years, previous things included M-Audio, and Focusrite Saffire, never, ever had an obvious issue with the Berry, also, I’ve no intention of upgrading.

I’ve been using an Arturia Keylab 37 for a while now, and I really don’t like it, I broke it recently, repaired it, and still hate it. It’s got so much on it I never use don’t want to use and don’t understand, all I need is a small keyboard which outputs CV pitch gate and mod, that also has an inbuil ...

This could be very beautiful, but it’s a bit schizophrenic, it sounds like it’s had a bubbly filter added to provide a more commercial feel, the result IMO is it’s trying to please too hard. If I were to mix this I’d ditch the bubbly filter, add more good quality reverb, some Eventide magic, and poss ...

Bob Bickerton wrote: ↑Thu Nov 27, 2025 10:02 pm
Now if it only had a decent meter........

Bob

The curse of all pedals, that’s why I still buy rack effects.
As for distortion, pay for it? It’s all over the place here! All I have to do is overload the inputs of anything I own, especially my Mackie mixer, which has great distortion.

CR78, or, get a cheap secondhand home organ, some of those are well worth having.

If it had a psychedelic paint job, it would be worth it.

Wonks wrote: ↑Wed Nov 26, 2025 10:42 pm

tacitus wrote: ↑Wed Nov 26, 2025 8:48 pm

Arpangel wrote: ↑Wed Nov 26, 2025 8:13 pm I bought the cheapest on Amazon, about £4, they are thick, so they must be good.

So there’s hope for me yet?

You'll never be as good as Arpangel.

At being cheap!

I bought the cheapest on Amazon, about £4, they are thick, so they must be good.

Buy a Behringer Odyssey if you want extra snappy bass, the Odyssey is well known for it.

My wife’s birthday, we thought "we’d better have some music" so we hired a pianist, thinking back on it, he really wasn’t necessary, he played pretty bland standards, and no one really took any notice. Last New Year we organised a party for our gardener/ handyman without whom we could not survive. It ...

Talking of buying anything, soon they’ll be paying us to take it away.
Behringer are doing the Wave for £479, and a lot of their Eurorack modules are under £30 now, that means mine are virtually worthless.