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Is this a competitor to the Korg Minilogue XD?

On paper, if you tried to compare feature-to-feature, I can see how it would seem like a 5-voice Minilogue at twice the price... but, so far, it seems (and sounds) more like a Prophet 5 Rev4 offered at 1/3 the price.

$1299 for an all-VCO Dave Smith-helmed 5-voice polysynth.

Is this a higher-end alternative to a Minilogue or the cheapest path to Prophet-ville?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t1Sh0BX8-U

Did you implement this fix successfully?

I didn't see the Bruce Lee outfit coming. Hit me outta nowhere.

This is great, Jim. Do you get to publish this one in color?

Are you still open to submissions, and do you mind submissions from someone who's given one before? (Fair warning, this'n's stylistically totally different than my last one, if you are in for it)

Also sorry if I'm reviving a dead thread. Been... out of the loop a bit dealing with all my health stuff. Hoping to get back in the swing of things here soon.

I'm glad to hear you're still with us, friend :) And you've got some new music too? Bonus!

I don't want to speak for eyesee, but I don't think anyone minds the necropost in the least.

my pleasure!

@silic0ne_t0ad I understand your frustration; I've got a lot of stuff I submitted 2 or 3 years ago that still hasn't been reviewed... becoming a Moderator here didn't magically change that, lol.

I've reviewed every item on Jame's page. As you will see, reviewing is not one and the same as a "stamp of approval"... there are a lot of entries that need additional info. All entries on James' page that are currently in "Needs Review" status are items where I added missing provenance info, and now someone else needs to go in and approve them...

...speaking of which, something you might not have been aware of: all users can review/approve entries here on EB, so you've got the power to go in and help put the stamp of approval on any item where you weren't a submitter/editor.

SH-7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbp7880URV0

Does this mean you're committing to reviewing every Junkie XL submission that comes through until this list is done?

If so, that's a hell of a deal for anyone that wants to rack up some points.

The elongated facial features on this one remind me of Peter Chung's work, and the marking/hatching of Mark Teixeira (yes all my reference points are from the '90s... I didn't even know Jae Lee was still in comics until recently, he was still just the guy awesome enough to make me buy Namor in the early '90s)

I really like what you did with SID on this one. The look & especially the pose are great. Best version of this character I've seen yet.

I saw this and started googling "Marvel Shield 60s psychedelic" to remember the name of the artist this reminded me of... then I noticed you beat me to it. This is a fun one.

How do you all think we should handle iPhones?

I'm having a hard time grocking the benefit of more than one entry for iPhone, total. If there's a desire to have an Amazon link to each current model for sale, that makes some sense, but other than that, I'm not sure who cares? iPhone vs. Samsung vs. Google, etc would seem to be the significant thing to know about what an Artist is using, but which current iPhone model, specifically, is only relevant for about 18 months, tops... if that.

I'm glad you're working with ppl that appreciate your talents. :)

I'm not exactly Jack Kirby, but I'm not dealing with a bunch of Kirbies

There was an art exhibition that came to town in the '00s that featured a lifetime of original pencil & inks from Kirby, Will Eisner, Chris Ware, and the titans in between. Seeing that work at it's original (larger) scale, and getting to see the actual hand-marks and detail. OMG, I was a Kirby fan before, but this was a whole new level of appreciation. His work is that much more perfect and detailed before the degradations of mass market color printing. Ditto for Chris Ware, in his own way... just devastatingly intricate and masterful in-the-flesh. Really kicked every other Art In America-type exhibition I saw that decade squarely in the teeth... and I'm so NOT the person to champion handcraft over ideas, especially back then... there was just something so objectively undeniable about the mastery that was on display.

...but yeah, I don't imagine working with Jack Kirby was wine and roses all day. :)

I like the end result to look like the old stuff and not so much like the early 00s marvel stuff and I feel like the technology seems to push people that way although there's been a return to more ink driven stuff that leans less on the colorist which is nice...

Yeah, I'm no fan of the early digital color stuff. Gratuitous gradients and blooming highlights... barf. I hear you re: the aesthetic you're after. As a person of a certain age, I share those preferences: flat with a side of flat, easy on the color saturation... but a good artist is a good artist, the work will be good regardless of the tools... I mentioned only because newer tools might have eventually provided a real speed advantage, but it sounds like you've already explored those avenues for now.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Right now scanning is not my problem. I just crank out pages and turn them in to the other guys. Everyone oohs and ahs and then they deal with everything else.

I'm glad you're working with ppl that appreciate your talents. :)

I haven't really done a lot of drawing since college, so you know how long that's been... I don't know if I would be comfortable involving a pad, I'm pretty traditional and lament the death of the time tested ways of doing things

I hear you, and I certainly didn't think a pad was something you were open to right now... but also, I remember working at a great game studio like 15 years ago, and one of the lead concept artist was absolutely incredible on Wacom... that badass totally changed my outlook. Also, the last documentary I saw on making a comic @ Marvel, the lead artist did their work from a camper van, while sitting on the beach in SoCal, using an iPad Pro... how many decades and how many undeniably talented practitioners does it take for something to becomes time-tested?

thanks, I sweat all of this stuff as I'm doing it, at the end of a piece I get really nervous... I'm always busy with the white paint... which aside from second guessing is useful for adding last minute style points in negative space. White paint, whiteout markers and white gel pens....

I suspect that's only because it's a new routine/project. If you're still illustrating at this pace a few years from now, you'll be executing like it's all carved in stone. No doubt, no touch-up...

... orrrr you'll transition to illustrating on Wacom or iPad Pro so you can sweat it all with an undo/redo queue. ;)

the actual squared off style of the graphiti is really boring so I jetisoned it in favor of splattines.... I emean, I didn't draw the building correctly, it was a lst minute add on

don't sweat it. you made the right call.

notice North Philly's famous "boner 4ever" tag?

That's a real and current building tag in Philly?

boner 4ever was on CNN... near my old job over broad and girard

Epic!

notice North Philly's famous "boner 4ever" tag?

That's a real and current building tag in Philly?

A whole new level here. Nicely done!

I could, but what I was reacting to this morning was just "this is inconsistent, how could we make things more consistent?"... but if we're talking about reshuffling categories, I feel like we'd need your input/guidance from the business/site-traffic side first.

Is it to the site's advantage to have a multitude of sub-categories to keep individual category sizes manageable and allow more items to get a high category ranking?... or would merging categories have little impact on current traffic and SEO?

Why do I ask? Because both Reverb and Sweetwater just have a "Drum Machines and Samplers" category, with all pure drum machines. and all sampling drum machines smushed together. Then sampling keyboards and rack samplers are merged in with regular synths and rack synths, respectively. So samplers that aren't also drum machines/groove boxes don't even have a category.

The above would represent the fewest sub-categories possible. Site-wide, EB tends to favor more sub categories, not less... and if more sub-categories are best for the site, then I'll stick to that and just lay out a re-org without adding or shrinking the total number of sub categories.

I am up for merging and/or cleaning this up FOR SURE but let's discuss because if there are a lot of items to be moved over, it might be more efficient for us to whip up a little script to do it in bulk.

ok, great... because manually re-sorting everything was gonna be tedious, lol.

Per you and DJ_K9, I agree drum machines seem like an odd fit under DJ. All 3 categories should be under the same parent category.

To me, the Audio Samplers category would encompass all rack samplers (Akai S Series, Emu E series, etc) and Production and Groove would be any drum machine primarily geared towards sampling or any sampling keyboard with a robust sequencer (Akai MPC Series, Emu SPs, Ensoniq ASRs, etc).

Right now, we've got MPCs in both categories, the Boss SP sample boxes under samplers, the Electron Samplers in both... it's a mess.

Does anyone object to dramatically thinning out the "Audio Samplers" category to only include samplers that don't also sequence?

OR... maybe these 2 categories and the drum machine category should get a re-think before any changes are made?

Honor has been restored to the mighty OB-6:

https://equipboard.com/items/dave-smith-instruments-ob-6-synthesizer

:)

For the record, I demoed an OB-6 once, and it didn't really grab me... but it's hugely popular, and a very well-executed product... just wanted to see it be in the running here for buyers to consider.

Great question.

I poked around a bit this evening. Everything I've read gives the impression that Cakewalk by BandLab is really just the final version of Sonar Platinum re-released under it's new owner's brandname, and with some bundled extras that involved third party licenses removed... and an integration with Bandlab added in. Even if the product looks and feels nothing like Sonar a year from now, the fact that the first Bandlab release was essentially the Sonar Platinum codebase back from the dead would be enough to qualify the Bandlab version as part of the same branch/continuity/timeline, IMHO. Smush 'em all into one, I say.

Anyone who actually owns Sonar is welcome to chime in and counter. I've never been a Cakewalk license holder.

https://cdm.link/2018/04/cakewalk-sonar-windows-back-free/

https://help.cakewalk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039253773-What-are-the-differences-between-Cakewalk-by-BandLab-and-other-legacy-Sonar-DAWs-

I can't comment on how to get that tone on a 6-string, but the original tone was Gibson Ripper > cranked SVT > overloaded Sound City Neve console. No pedals.

https://youtu.be/dE2bf0NoIBU?t=1404

Earlier in that video, they quote Butch Vig stating he recorded the bass mic'd and direct, and for direct they used a modified Tech 21 Sans Amp Bass Driver. I owned a bass driver for a hot minute in the '00s, sent it back because it was too oriented towards that 90s distorted rock bass thing, lol. Sounds like the Sans Amp wasn't used on Breed though.

Thank you!

A buddy just pinged me to announce he'd picked up a Presonus Temblor T10 Sub to pair with his A7Xs, and I forwarded him my T10 review from here, in that "dude, I 100% get your excitement" kinda way... and noticed there's no Sweetwater link for that particular gear page, even though product is still current and still for sale @ Sweetwater. Is this something end users can add, or is that Admin-only?

T10 EB page

Sweetwater T10 page

Amazon T10 page

what's funny is I have a original sequential circuits synth and a DSI but in oldster fashion no 'sequential' gear yet

Well c'mon Pokemon, you gotta catch 'em all, right?

When are you getting a Prophet 10 desktop?

Love it! Thank you!

Yes. They only do business as Sequential now. All products are officially "Sequential" products, not DSI, even if they launched during the DSI era.

https://djmag.com/content/dave-smith-instruments-rebrands-sequential

I think I finally figured out why the seemingly-popular Sequential OB-6 is ranked so low (currently #93) here:

The EB entry for the OB-6 is linking to a Reverb landing page for the "Sequential" OB-6, which doesn't have any reviews... which was puzzling until I remembered that Sequential was still doing business as Dave Smith Instruments/DSI around the time these products launched. They didn't get the Sequential name back until a few years ago.

Take a look as the Reverb DSI landing page for the OB-6... reviews, sales, normalcy.

Curiously, the EB page for the Sequential Prophet 6 links to a landing page called "Dave Smith Instruments Sequential Circuits Prophet-6 Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer"... that's one way to cover all the bases, I guess.

Anyway, I know this is a very minor point, but does it make sense to link the OB-6 EB page to the more active DSI OB-6 landing page instead?

thanks for your support Gchiaren. because when i told what i do on other music site like audiofanzine moderators close my account.

Account closure is a reasonable outcome for a user that is repeatedly spamming links to their music video and/or forcing the same topic over and over despite a lack of interest from the rest of the community. Wouldn't you agree?

I appreciate the humor of responding to my inquiry with another link, weesch. :)

I'm not a Moderator, but to pofm's point, be mindful of staying on-topic... at least for these more important threads started by an Admin.

there's a link in the first post, and in the profile, and in the only studio photo... but the lack of links in the subsequent posts is a head-scratcher. Benefit of the doubt: it's some next-level Google algorithm-gaming I'm not yet hip to.

@weesch what is your deal? I do not mean to offend when I ask this, but are you a bot? You regularly post various text blocks about plugin delay compensation here on the site.

https://equipboard.com/weesch/forum_posts

This is all you post about.

I'm sure you understand my concerns, given the limited facts presented thus-far: your patterns of behavior don't yet match those of an actual human user with an interest in contributing to this community.

on further inspection, I'm going with Hofner Galaxie. The Super Solid has big Strat style knobs around the edge of the body, and the Galaxy has roller-type adjustments near each pickup... the guitar in the video would seem to be a Galaxie, based on this.

Thanks eyesee!

I'm not sure what the differences are between the Super Solid and the visually very similar Galaxie. This Reverb listing claims the Galaxie was the 3-pickup successor to the Super Solid, but someone is going to need to dive a bit deeper to sort out whether the video is a Super Solid 3 or a Galaxie. Can't take just one seller's word for it.

https://reverb.com/item/27728569-vintage-1964-hofner-galaxie-176-solid-red-electric-guitar

based on closeup @2:03, I'm going to go with 1960s Hofner Super Solid 3:

https://www.vintageandrare.com/product/Hofner-Galaxie-1963-Red-73939#prettyPhoto

Guitar spotting is not my area of expertise though, this is just me googling around a few minutes.