On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:

On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 21:56:26 -1000, david wrote:
>Sometimes I think the whole purpose of DAWs and VSTs and synths is to
>make it possible for someone sitting at home with no budget to write
>for whole symphony orchestras *and hear something like it* without
>spending the large amount of money needed to have an orchestra
>actually perform a piece.
>
>Being such a person, I'm not complaining. ;)

That is what midi and digital audio is good at. For me I am on computers too much already so for that I use an Access Virus and a Korg workstation sequencer.

Keep in mind, I'm a fan of real Curtis CEM based analog synth as well
as I like real non-analog iconic synth, such as the real old DX7 or
the TG33 with it's vector control. With modern emulations you can't get
all those original sounds, it at least does feel different when playing
those beasts live, compared to virtual synth, OTOH emulations become
better and better. Arturia and Nord are amazing PC/tablet PC synth
and/or stand alone hardware synth. At the moment I usually prefer
latest emulations over original synth. Not all oldish analog synth
provide the nice controls mentioned by robertlazarski. I own an Oberheim
Matrix-1000, it only provides MIDI IOs and an audio output and the only
potentiometer is to control the volume. A lot of people replaced a lot
of analog synth with a few Oberheim Matrix-1000 in the end of the 80s,
just using the factory presets, without a MIDI controller.

That's cool you have a Matrix-1000. About those Curtis Chips ...

This is where I have hope for Behringer as a few years ago they bought a big chip company. The sweet and short poly analogs of the 80's - Oberheim Xpander and Matrix 12, Roland Jupiter 4 and 8 etc - to varying degrees were analog chip based. I have a hard time seeing how a chip based clone could come up short.

For example. this is the Xpander. This is the one I want to see come back:

Xpander: 6x CEM3374 Dual VCO, 6x CEM3372 Filter/Mix/VCA

Best regards,

Robert