viotones's forum posts 7

Good luck. I’ve requested things be added over a year ago that haven’t been. I’m pretty sure this site has been abandoned by any sort of management .

Is anyone even still monitoring this? Added equipment months ago and still no add...

Mods,

Can you please add:

Name: Yamaha Nio500-A16 16-channel Analog I/O for Nuage

Image: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/NIO500A16--yamaha-nio500-a16-16-channel-analog-i-o-for-nuage

This is a Dante audio interface for the Yamaha Nuage consoles.

Thanks!

Lately I’ve really enjoyed playing my Moog Matriarch. It is simple, to-the-point, and sounds amazing. Prior to this it was my Juno-106. As a teenager my first (real) synth was a Roland HS-60 (consumer version of the 106), so the 106 will always have a special place in my heart.

If you are storing/using your vintage gear in your studio with clean power, then maintaining it is negligible. I find updating software (driver issues, OS incompatibilities, etc.) to be more distracting than thinking about something breaking in my vintage gear.

At the end of the day I think that comparing the two is like comparing apples to oranges. VST’s sound amazing these days, and the ability to save and store patches, parameters, and controller automation is a feature that simply isn’t possible with a lot of vintage gear. However, I think that using Vintage gear still plays an instrumental part (pun intended) in making music due to the process of performance. There is a personal relationship that one can have with an instrument, through performance, that is hard to emulate (again, pun intended) with a VST.

In my workflow, I use vintage gear for ideation. The ability to perform with it and twist and turn knobs with both hands, as well as being constrained to the currently loaded patches and/or oscillator/ADSR/filter settings keeps me focused and allows me to go narrow and deep on a particular idea. On the flip side, if I where to start an idea with a VST I would very quickly find myself overwhelmed with the shear volume of possibilities; most of the time to the point of distraction.

Once the idea is solid on my vintage gear I move it to a VST because it gives me the utility to collectively save state (i.e., I have a Yamaha DX7, Roland D-50, Korg M1, and a Roland Juno-106. I also have the VST versions of these synths that I use in my DAW. Even though I use my vintage gear to generate ideas, all of the sequencing and printed tracks are derived from the VST’s; I don’t track with my vintage gear because it is much more efficient to use VST’s in production).

I believe that if one had to choose one or the other, then getting a VST is a no-brainer. They are (typically) less expensive, require no physical space, don’t consume electrical power (no ground loops, etc.), and have the ability to save state. Of course this is assuming that one has some sort of MIDI controller to use.

But…. If you find yourself generating ideas using VST’s that are emulations of vintage gear, and one day you have the opportunity to lay your hands on the real thing, your mind will be blown!!

Mods,

Can you please add:

Name: Kenton Thru-12

Image: https://kentonuk.com/product/thru-12/

This is a MIDI thru box. You currently have the Thru-5 and Thru-25 listed, but not the 12.

Thanks!

Mods,

Can you please add:

Name: Yamaha Nio500-A16 16-channel Analog I/O for Nuage

Image: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/NIO500A16--yamaha-nio500-a16-16-channel-analog-i-o-for-nuage

This is a Dante audio interface for the Yamaha Nuage consoles.

Thanks!