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This bare bones microphone is not use for singing but for vocoding with Wavestation A/D, JD-Xi and Mininova. It was substituted by Audio Technica Pro 8 HEx.
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Useful alternate controller
Actually Yamaha breath controllers are items of a (recent) past. The three diapason brand decided not to produce them anymore and from Motif XS series on all musical instruments with keyboard are lacking of BC input. This is a pity, because BC allows the player to add subtle expression to sounds. On a synthesizer sometimes MW, PB, aftertouch and expression/volume pedals are not enough to mimic an acoustic instrument. That's why a BC can add what it lacks.
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Used as submixer's submixer. The audio chain is made up 2 MotU 828mk3 and 2 Pre, Yamaha 01v+MY-8AD-24 (submixer hooked to the first 828mk3 via SPDIF). MX-822 uses a couple of audio ins from MY-8AD-24.
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Used mainly to feed the vocoder section of my mini synthezizers: JD-Xi and Mininova and have free hands.
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Used s/h for a fair price. I wouldn't buy again. Quite disappointed by its microphone preamplifiers, expecially when trying to record line signals from analog devices. In particular, recording a Roland JX-10 was a pain in the ass... It's better having more background noise and a good overal sound or a weaker signal that must be normalized then?
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In a hate-love relationship since december 2016. While some sound banks, expecially Analog Voltage by the exceptional Don Solaris, transform Blofeld in a great sound generator, the factory patches are quite disappointing to say the least. Within 1024 patches I found usable a small part.
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Another under appreciated musical instruments from the nineties. The powerfulness of Z-Plane filters, although the internal WaveROM is quite small - 8MBs - allows to create lush and strange timbres, useful for sound resarch, electronica and soundtrack genres.
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This is was my first GM expander. It opened me the door to multitrack sequences played back by a single instrument. Since then I had to compose my sequences using several synthesizers driven by a sequencer. 03R/W has also a Program/Combination section that sounds stil good today.
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This is the rack version of the well-known Roland SC-88. It lacks display, but it gains a couple of separate stereo outputs, where different sounds can be routed to mixer inputs for diverse processing. All in all it's a Roland SC-55 Sound Canvas on steroids, its strenght is on reproducing multitimbral sequences with several instruments at the same time, while single sounds are a little weak.
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Perhaps this is one of the most misunderstoood and under appreciated synthesizer Yamaha has ever built. If FM syntesis is complicated and hard to carry out with just 6 operators, let's imagine what might happen with 8 voiced and 8 unvoiced operators. FS1R is a real power, but almost impossible to operate with its tiny display. Formant synthesis is a great thing, useful to create particular sound textures impossible to reproduce with other synth engines. Without an editor with graphical interface FS1R can't be managed. Period.
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In 1993 I bought a second hand D-50 but its keyboard was completely without aftertouch and dynamics was quite hard to manage. On one hand I was fascinated by its timbre on the other hand I realized that the instrument was really a crap and only when driven by an external keyboard I obtained the sounds I had in mind. Thus after almost six/eight months of suffering I gave it away to a musician who used it as an expander. Several years after, Roland had this great idea to reissue a great classic synthesizer such as D-50, in a more compact size. The sound is unmistakably the same.
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I have also a couple of them. FC-7 is one of the best expression pedals I've ever used. It's progressive and lets you managing controllers excursions the best way... Nonetheless it's very solid and sturdy.
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Impossible to destoy... I have a couple of them. The first one accompained Yamaha S90ES, bought in 2005, and it still rocks as if it were new.
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Bought new in 1992 after I had traded Yamaha DX7mkI few years before to buy a Fostex A-80 and 450, respectively reel to reel 8 track 1/4 tape recorder and 8:4:2 mixer. With Opcode Galaxy plus Editors I succeeded converting old DX7mkI patches into TG77 ones and the better clarity of converters added a crisp to the sound I've just imagined with the former synthesizer.
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the whole SY series is so criminally underrated. they're all DX7 mkIIs with wavestation features grafted on as well as filtering. I often consider losing my beloved IIFD in favor of an SY77 or 99
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In my studio I can include two Roland PG-800. This programmer is used to edit, respectively, JX-10 and MKS-70 patches.
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Althoug bought with great expectations, I found this software package quite disappointing. Several GB of samples, but not everything of pristine quality.
Version: Native Instruments Komplete 9
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This wonderful expansion board is installed respectively in a Roland JV-2080 and a Roland JD-990.
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I bought MS-70 CDR hoping it would substitute Strymon Big Sky, but I was wrong. All in all this stompbox effect has a great price quality ratio, but it's light years from Big Sky.