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> This reads like a promo piece for Teenage Engineering. Yeah. As an electronic music hobbiest, this has a really odd feel to it. TE's stuff is really not all
by nkozyra 7y ago
> This reads like a promo piece for Teenage Engineering.
Yeah. As an electronic music hobbiest, this has a really odd feel to it. TE's stuff is really not all that innovative and while it has its niche isn't really blowing the doors off of anything. I've never personally liked their stuff - it seems so rigid and lifeless.
The Monotron + Monodelay were, admittedly, toys, but still very fun to play with and definitely ushered in a modern age of small, cheap fun synths.
- bredren 7y agoYou can buy your way into the NY Times with a high priced PR firm.
- anchpop 7y agoWhat would you recommend to buy instead?
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- cl0ne 7y agoKorg Volcas. Arturia also has some fairly affordable analog synths like the Microbrute. It doesn't have any presets, so you have to figure out how to create sounds on your own and the manual that comes with it is great in explaining oscillators, filters, etc.
- jgalentine007 7y agoHad the Microbrute, volca beats/keys/bass. All of them sounded awesome. The only problem is you couldn't really make songs (with distinct parts) without an additional controller (a squarp pyramid would have been cool. ) and the whole point was to not have to use a computer. If I did it again a I'd probably go with an octatrack or mpc live or something where I could do more in a single box.
- nkozyra 7y agoJust fyi the mpc live is an absolutely drag without the mpc software and a computer.
- puranjay 7y agoIt is a toy. A fun toy, but I've never walked into a studio and seen a producer producing actual tracks on it. Serum + a decent keyboard is the basic setup
- BadassFractal 7y agoSerum is an absolute marvel. I'm amazed a super small team of people managed to put that all together.
- puranjay 7y agoI would also love if more software companies adopted its sales model. I "bought" it on a rent-to-own basis from Splice. $10/month for 20 months and then I owned it fully. No subscription, no payments in perpetuity.
- kabes 7y agoEuhm... Omnisphere?
- TheOtherHobbes 7y agoSerum. Omnisphere is for ad spots.
- nkozyra 7y agoI don't think VSTs are a fair comparison to hardware synths. They may be used a lot in the studio but there's a very different niche for real synths and the gap is closing in the opposite direction lately. It used to be you had a handful of audio units to emulate specific hardware synths. Now hardware is getting flexible enough to handle a lot of different flavors.