Instruments • Re: Cherry Audio's next synth is (probably) a Polivoks on steroids

would you like Atomika if they made it better so it was very clean and didn't have a filthy filter that could create distortion? Of course not

How would that be "better"? It would just be another generic synth like 50 others I already have. What makes it worth having is the fact that it's not "clean" and it does have a "filthy filter".

When you make an emulation of a classic synth you emulate it the best you can, you don't make "improvements". The Minimoog is used on kinds of classic records including for bass

So what? That doesn't make it any good, it just means that's what was available at the time. How many of the artists on those records kept using their Model D's once better synths came out? I'll tell you - none of them.

If you "improve" the Minimoog it's no longer a Minimoog

Which is precisely what makes it worth having. Look how much better The Legend HZ is, compared to the original The Legend - it's chalk and cheese. Similarly, MiniMonsta is much more useful with GForce's upgrades than their original emulation was. In fact, that's true of pretty much every emulation out there. They are only worth having because they've been dragged, kicking and screaming, into the modern age. Honestly, who would want them if you couldn't save patches, if they were monophonic and couldn't be sequenced?

He is talking about fundamentally changing the character of the filter

Which is exactly what GForce have done and just go and see how well that's been received. I'll give you a few cherry-picked quotes - "The bass-preserving filter is a great idea" and "The option of maintaining the bass is great to see". That's just page 1, before a long list of people unable to access the server to buy it kicked in.

You could always have a polyphonic minimoog by chaining them together

How would you achieve that without MIDI? CV+Gate might let you play the same note on multiple instruments but that's about it.

the Ladder filter that gives the Minimoog it's iconic sound

Except it wasn't unique, lots of others copied it because it was so cheap. e.g. ARP's Odyssey had one until Moog sent them a legal letter telling them to find something else. What made the Model D worth having were it's oscillators.

Again Bones considers the Moog ladder filter to be a f*uck up that needs to be improved

As did Bob Moog.

If you do that it is no longer a Minimoog

Who cares? Who wouldn't want a better synth if someone made one? And if they didn't, why would everyone make them with lots of better/extra features?

Statistics: Posted by BONES — Thu Nov 07, 2024 8:52 am

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