Re: [LAU] My JX-8P is dead, any SW based synth that can handle the heritage? :-(

Hi Jostein! I don't have much personal experience with SW synths, since a lot of the easy knob-twiddling kind are graphical only. That said though, I've heard a few just asthey are. AMS struck me at being very good, though being very good at Moog not Roland. :-) I've also heard some old Rolands, though I was never really fond of them. Still Yoshimi is very good for pads, the best I've heard on Linux. Otherwise you might try something like PD and build yourself an instrument, that reflects the features of a JP-8x. I don't know,if you can then also save patches for that specific synth, since for PureData - or other SW synths of that type - your whole synth-model will be a patch for a start. Something, which hasn't been mentioned yet: How about VST-plugins? I'm sure, there should be something - of not more than one something - to home in on your specs? www.kvraudio.com is usually the place to look for those. As for the knob twiddling: Did you ever consider one of those MIDI slider/knob boxes (Beringer BCR2000 or BCF2000, Korg Kaoscontrol or what3ever it was called). They are quite good, if you like to have real controls under yours hands, while building sounds. I hope, that something of this might help. Warm regards Julien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Such Is Life: Very Intensely Adorable; Free And Jubilating Amazement Revels, Dancing On - FLOWERS! ====== Find my music at ====== http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html ..................................... "If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you." (Winnie the Pooh)