I honestly don’t know why I bought this. I have a soft spot for drum machines, but I still never use them the way they should be used. Besides, I think an iPad could be the perfect drum machine that would replace small boxes like this as well as a bunch of control surfaces.
Naturally, I have quite many iPad drum machines, but…I don’t really use them either. I really need to get a grip.
I sold this after Judgment Day.
Got it for some nice presets I heard on the net. Then I looked at it for a couple of years and sold it after Judgment Day. Nothing wrong with it really, it just wasn’t for me.
A standard MIDI interface. Works with USB power. Had to get two of them when my MIDISport 8×8 died.
This is quite a nice one. One oscillator, more or less, and quite a nasty sound. I’m actually tempted to upgrade it to its big brother with patch points.
I have a soft spot for drum machines. I have a soft spot for Clavia. My entire studio could be red. Nice enough, but had that thin plastic Clavia sound, so it became the victim of Judgment Day, as did many other items. Haven’t missed it. Or any of them, actually. Except Frank.
I was lusting for a PolyEvolver Keys for years, but it always felt like a bit of overkill. I think that I had come to realize just how much of a monosynth guy I really am. So when Dave Smith announced that he would be discontinuing the MEK, people started buying them from wherever they could find them. I found mine from Thomann, and just in the nick of time, as the next day they were sold out.
Sonically, it’s really impressive. It’s got both analog and digital oscillators (2 of both), a nifty sequencer and crunchy effects. I’m always on the hunt for the bass sound of Ultravox’ We Came to Dance, and this one (think PPG, or rather Prophet VS) comes quite close (Blofeld actually did that too).
I lost it to Judgment Day, but this is actually one I could buy again.
A really solid analog sequencer! 3 x 16 steps you can trigger in various ways. If you’re looking for an analog sequencer, you can’t really go wrong with this one. i sold it as part of Frank after Judgment Day, and I’m thinking maybe I shouldn’t have.
Another one of those ”small boxes” Korg put out during this time. I got a MIDI kit for this as well, and had it well-integrated into my setup, but didn’t really used it for anything else than mucking around. Again, nothing wrong with it, just not my cup of tea.
Sold it after Judgment Day.
Got this because I wanted to make a cover of Ultravox’ Mr X, so a violin was needed. Not an easy instrument; I ended up playing the violin parts one to three notes at a time, and then doing some cutting and pasting and creative editing. End result is quite nice though. Did Vienna later as well using the same proven technique.
Would be nice to be a real musician and know how to play this bloody thing.
This one is easy to waste hours at a time with. A really hands-on synth, and patchpoints always makes things more fun. Plays nicely with the modular.
I always thought combined D/R-stages in the envelopes are a bit weird. True for this one as well. On the other hand, that partly contributes to what it sounds like, I suppose.