Check out this one http://samples.kb6.de/
loads of samples from all kind of drumcomputers. >>Malte if you buy more than just a battery, you should compare prices >>between www.conrad.de and www.reichelt.de. I prefer to order by >>Reichelt. You are right but it was a kind of impulsive act. I wanted to do it for 10 years and recently decided if I dont do it now I would never so I needed a shop to walk in and get the stuff imedietly. The battery for Sixtrak was 3 euro there. >>I haven't the money for Sequential. One of my favourites is >>the revision of the Prophet 5 Yeah I bought it second hand in the late 80s/beginning of the 90s where you get the analogue stuff for real cheap because nobody cared, everyone except me loved the Korg M1 with hundreds of natural rom samples, not my way I use synthesizers. Meanwhile Ebay and the collectors ruined the market and actually I wouldn't buy vintage equipment now, at least not analogue ones. The prices are crazy and then there is the maintenance costs. But digital synths and samplers are rather cheap and sometimes even worth it. For Prophet 5 I would look for the recent Prophet 8 by Dave Smith Instruments, the closest thing you can get now. I still believe in hardware instruments although in my studio I use everything, analogue, digital and software based stuff, as you might already seen in my footer, I create softwaresynths on my own. On the other hand the instrument industry is not very healthy at the moment and everything commercial available tend to be boring. Dont get me started on VST plugins but I hate the most of it. Its incredible, we got now the possibility to create virtual synthesizers with endless possibilities but everything sounds the same, following a certain idea how synths should sound, very conservative. Many possibilities are hidden in software like CSound and it is possible to create a user friendly GUI shell around Csound patches so that this works like your usual synths, I mean that you have a certain polyphony and can store and recall sounds. Actually I working on it but my time is limited too. Another thing I am working on are alternative user interfaces. While commercial software vendours wants to make you believe their software sound better when they slap a picture of a Moog onto it, I really hate twiddling virtual knobs with the mouse. Alternatives should be created with software and hardware user interaction, I started some research with hacking a Korg PadKontrol: http://www.block4.com/index.php?id=101 Cheers, Malte -- ---- media art + development http://www.block4.com new release: free open source softwaresynth Minicomputer for Linux http://minicomputer.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
