Decisions Decisions... Plz Halp!

Right now, I've found a few arpeggiated settings in Analog Labs 4 what came with the Arturia, basically I just hold down a key and it does all this crazy do de da do da de do da stuff. I assume that's all there is to it?

yeah, that's it... usually. The sound design stuff is a little more complicated. Having mostly come from the unintelligible world of yamaha synths and non-preset storing mono synths as a kid I tend to just put up a saw or sine and design every sound ground up unless there's a something I made and saved for later on a synth during a fit of experimentation. Like I save patches but I rarely reuse them. I find it so enjoyable to just start with a blank slate. Its the direct opposite of how I am with guitar usually where I just turn up an old amp and plug into it with a good guitar and maybe just maybe a treble booster or fuzzy thing. I just fire up a synth on init patch and get imagining and if it won't do what I want I switch, although at this point I have a good idea of the style of synthesis I wanna use. 9 time out of t0 its some variation of subtractive, either a nice fat analog like the prophet or something wavetabley (especially since getting the argon8m, which is like wavetables on crack despite being fully digital). Even my go to FM has digital fitlers at this point. The DX7 coems out rarely and I'm all about the sy35 and EX5 that are kidna wavetable subtractive deals with a mr hyde personality that's 4 or 6 op FM respectively opening up a world of possibilities. Then there's the phase distortion synth, the casio cz101 that i should play more.... and the K5 additive synth that deserves more play time but is a PITA to program, need a K5000, just lost an auction for one on fleabay where I wouldn't pay over $750 for it, but I regreat it and and.... what were we talking about?

watch out for synthesizers. Rabbit hole. Worse than my amp collecting 10 years ago. During that phase I settled on Voxes and Hiwatts and let other stuff go. I let synths go but only if I get something similar and better or flat out hate the thing.

oh wait, headless guitars! did you buy one?

I did. I now have 3 headless instruments total. My Steinberger Spirit GT-Pro Deluxe, my Whatever-The-Hells-It-Is (Equipboard has agreed...ish that it's a Maestro BL52, though mine's black, so it may be a BK52?) headless fretless bass, and now my EART W2 .strandberg* copy. It's nice. I need to make a review video for each bit of gear I've acquired this year.

But bugger all... My bloody hands and the bloody nerve/tendon damage is just... It ain't great.

But yeah, so I have 3 now. And I love 'em all.

whoa, the EART is so weird looking

Looks like a .strandberg, just doesn't have the EndurNeck profile they have (which I found a knockoff that does, that's my next guitar--it's supposed to, according to .strandberg, reduce tendon strain and make it easier to play for people with tendon/nerve damage--you know, people like me).

It may look weird as hell, but I can tell you from experience of playing it, it is super comfortable to play on. It sits natural, there's no neck dive, and it just begs to be played. The only real issue with this one is the fact that since it's a cheaper guitar from China, it does have some sawdust caught under the clearcoat on the back of the neck--you can feel those bumps a bit.

Still, I suggest it to anyone that wants to get into headless guitars. It's cheaper than a Steinberger, plays just as good, and is a hell of a lot easier to tune.

Still, I suggest it to anyone that wants to get into headless guitars. It's cheaper than a Steinberger, plays just as good, and is a hell of a lot easier to tune.

my big turnoff to the steinberger was the tuning, when you could find them in stores in the 90s they were always out of tune and you could enver get them abck in fast enough not to lose interest and pick up a fender or something

This'n has a little chuck key that's magnetized to the bridge. You pop it out, you chuck it up, you tune. Done. My hands being like they are, there's actually more leverage than on most of my other instruments (basses excluded), so this may become my go-to just for ease's sake!

that's really cool.... hmmm

Darrell Braun just reviewed a guitar, ALP or some such, has the exact same bridge. They are not (from a cursory search) a Chinese knockoff company--so apparently the bridge is good hardware, at the very least!