marf Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 we've got one... my housemate "borrowed" it broken from a well-known london art college, we fixed it and kept it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundwave Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 we've got one... my housemate "borrowed" it broken from a well-known london art college, we fixed it and kept it. I'll give him £85 for it cash in hand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted December 5, 2010 Author Share Posted December 5, 2010 Ill give you 100! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted December 5, 2010 Author Share Posted December 5, 2010 people a;ways get into the self oscillating madness of this synth. The high pitched sounds, but I think it shines in the big farty bass territory. The oscillators are really old school and fat sounding like test generators Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 wicked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tapeghoul Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 That things like a sonic game of battle ships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest futuregirlfriend Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 Has anyone given that XILS Lab's XILS-3 a go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 arturia should do a faithful VCS3 VST... the amount of fetishisation this synth gets, they'd clean up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rbrmyofr Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 It's a great synth but it sounds horrible in that video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lady kakapo Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 Has anyone given that XILS Lab's XILS-3 a go? Yes. It's good. But it's not in my go to list, seemed a bit tempermental, although my set up was due a good clean up at the time, so I wouldn't read anything much into it. Might go back to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted December 6, 2010 Author Share Posted December 6, 2010 I like the sound of the oscillators of the synthi. Most demos are sqeeeling with high pitched sounds. Im not into that. Thats what I like about this demo. It has nice thick throbbing fartyness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 is this the synth eno played in roxy music? maybe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVeEBMJt8vs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted December 6, 2010 Author Share Posted December 6, 2010 yes, eno was all about the ems synths. Then he discovered the DX7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundwave Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsxMRz477jM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J08mjAl-yw (EMS do do a VST but its overpriced you cant get the torrent anywhere) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beariksson Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 speaking of vcs3 http://touchshop.org/product_info.php?cPath=35&products_id=437 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mafted Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 fuck, I've never seen a woofer cone abused like that lol. Especially when the waveform "sucks" the cone in briefly in the beginning part It appears his monitors were in the red for the majority of that video, which seems like it contributed to the gonzo nature of the synth. exactly what i thought when first watching.. i can't imagine it lasting much longer than that vid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fahz0r Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Ah, i've played with that exact VCS3 in the video of the first post. I have to admit, since it didn't have the/a keyboard for it, it was just a noise box and it got rather boring after half an hour playing on it, but that's in my opinion. I mean, you CAN make actual music with this synth.. And don't worry, the woofers were fine, until i touched their arp2500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted December 9, 2010 Author Share Posted December 9, 2010 fuck, I've never seen a woofer cone abused like that lol. Especially when the waveform "sucks" the cone in briefly in the beginning part It appears his monitors were in the red for the majority of that video, which seems like it contributed to the gonzo nature of the synth. exactly what i thought when first watching.. i can't imagine it lasting much longer than that vid. Im sure we are hearing the synth + speaker +air movement + microphone + mic preamp + computer soundcard..Not just the vcs3. Some people mic the internal speakers on the arp 2600 for instance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted December 9, 2010 Author Share Posted December 9, 2010 I could see getting bored if you arent familiar with the layout Im not which i like more the 2600 or the ems synthi There are vids by tonetweakers of a 2600 that are absolutely amazing. The mixer in that particular 2600 overdrives so nicely. Other 2600 vids i see are meh. So it is highly dependent on a each individual synth and the components inside and how they have aged or whatever. It really varies from synth to synth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Babaluma Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 i had a chance to play with my friend hataken's ems synthis aks recently. three hours of pure bliss! the sound of the 70's! i don't really see how any digital emulation could come ever close to that experience. the thing has built in speakers and spring reverb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fahz0r Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 I could see getting bored if you arent familiar with the layout Im not which i like more the 2600 or the ems synthi There are vids by tonetweakers of a 2600 that are absolutely amazing. The mixer in that particular 2600 overdrives so nicely. Other 2600 vids i see are meh. So it is highly dependent on a each individual synth and the components inside and how they have aged or whatever. It really varies from synth to synth The reason the other arp2600 videos are meh is because the people using them are shite at using them, it's not the synth's fault :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest David R James Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 speaking of vcs3 http://touchshop.org/product_info.php?cPath=35&products_id=437 'Mastered by Jason at Transition' lol, i bet he was quite suprised to recieve a project like this to master considering most of their clients are drum and bass/dubstep/dance artists/labels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BCM Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 gear lust! jesus, wish I could afford a 2600 :( I'll have to nick one from Jean Michel Jarre or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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