None at all... :) But I did use one old vst once... it was a harp physical modeling plugin, that I sampled every key from (61 notes) in 8 velocity layers on my hardware E-MU E5000 Ultra sampler.... it was used once... cause it's the harp playing on my "Entombed" remix :wink: So if I had to...

I also recently purchesed this rackmount polyphonic version of the Dave Smith's Evolver synth... I've had the desktop version for many years, finding this to be one of the finest of newer synths made... always wanted a polyphonic version for my rack... and lucky me; I found one for sale extremely ch...

Well... This one is on it's way into my studio very soon... it was actualy a bit unexpected, as I never heard of this rackmount effect before, but someone wanted to swap directly with a compressor I had for sale, and it looks interresting. It's basically an overdrive effect in rack format, and the t...

Here is a demo of the Yamaha FS1R's sounds... approx. 100 of them. The Yamaha FS1R is the most comprehensive hardware FM synth avaiable out there, and is extremely flexible with it's FM and Formant Shaping synthesis combined with more than 70 FX algorithms. It's particularly good at Chromatic and Me...

Sure... Here's a couple of Pictures of the studio in it's current state. It takes up about 1/3 of my livingroom, and it's deliberately placed about a meter from the walls as this is best with the accoustics... and I plan on putting up some basstraps in the corners along with frequency absorbing pads...

Yes... I'm using the Cakewalk UM-3G interfaces, and I will settle for nothing less than these because I am rather timing demanding when it comes to MIDI... They each draw approx. 100 milliamps, and no matter what I do... if I connect more than four devices of the same kind, the PC refuses to accept ...

I allready tried using an externaly powered USB hub, but it's the same... it does not Work with the mIDI interfaces I want to use. But limiting myself to 24 channels on a mixer, MIDI ports are just suficient to satisfy my needs as it is now, so I'm happy with what I've got now... If I got more instr...

Unfortunately, just throwing in some stereo rack mixers won't do the trick for me Commie User... I need every synth on it's own mixer channel because I need to have EQ, insert points, and AUX sends for them... I use every synth in single mode, even if they can play more than one sound at a time, mai...

It would be pointless rambling about synths without presenting some demo's of the machines, and as promised here are the first one. It's a few presets played on the Roland MKS-50 to show of why I like this machine so much. Unfortunately it's recorded in mono... the MKS-50 normaly has a stereo chorus...

About that video Jingle... it's tough to guess on so small a take, but it's definitely an early'er vintage machine that's for sure, and analog too... If I'd have to make a guess it's something ARP'ish, maybe even an ARP2600 which was used on many Things back then... it does NOT sound like a minimoog...

"So aside from refinements in filters, have things really changed all that much in the last 20 years? Or has fashion simply directed the presets? I certainly know that my JD-800 has the sound of its period but which can also be undone with enough fiddling. And my Alesis DM5 has 'olden days' sy...

Yes... that MKS-50 demo shows the nice warm character of the sound it can do, especialy for 80's like synthpop music... and yes, definitely above average :) But the sound I remember it for is a bit more rough, amely the hoover sound that was used on countless rave and techno music during the 90's: M...

@Commie_User The list is of what synths I've had over the many years of GAS... and no, I'm not recording accoustic sounds and never really have. My passion lies with synthesized sounds, but as I do have two samplers I could record anything if I wanted to, and I do have plans on getting myself a mobi...

:duh: Razmo's Gear rambling thread :duh: Yep... can as well keep it all in one post... the studio changes all the time, even if I try not to, so why bother :) So instead of making a new thread every time about something "morphing" in the studio, I thought to make this thread and bringing i...

A few Things need to be changed about this, now that I've heard it Again... Leads are a bit too wobbly to my ears.... but I'll have a look at it again.