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Buy a moog and all your problems are solved

 

I was just saying it was not okay to assume he would find you out of his league.
It has nothing to do with not being attracted to you, I am sure you are an attractive woman.

 

Especially for all my Hip friends. Enjoy!

 

Nice wig.

 

Why do you always have to be mean?

 

Thanks guys, I actually know who that is, I've seen the show before! Yea it's not so bad, he is pretty cool :3

 

I'm not really a fan of Nord in particular, and I do think they are severely overpriced. The first series Juno's are going for disgustingly high prices for the past 2+ years, and not because of it's quality, but because of it's image. The 106 goes, invariably, for less than half of the 6, and less than a third of the 60, and the only difference is that of a single option (I forget if it's on-board arpeggio or portamento) and the size of the patch-programmable memory bank (the 106 has, what, twice the amount?!), and of course everyone argues over the 'warmth'; newsflash: They are the same fucking machine!! My only hang-up is over the size, the 106 needs a small table of it's own, while the 6 can be put on a shelf attached to the wall and placed directly above my MS2000 (which is not as long as the 6, but is almost as wide as the 106). If the prices were not so insane I'd go for the 60, but I have plenty of effects and don't need them built in, nor do I care much for the memory bank as the whole point of analog synthesis is supposed to be the ease of direct modulation and control in sound-sculpting right from the face, which the 6 is beginner-level simple.

I do use the memory bank on the MS2000 (out of the 128 available, I have a total of 3 saved) and have actually recreated the sounds heard frequently on Oneohtrix Point Never songs, which are created on none other than the Juno 60, exclusively. It has a built in 3-track 16 step-sequencer, more effects than a multi-pedal, and sounds deep as shit, never understood why more people didn't grasp the brilliance of the machine (I don't know if you already knew this, but the MicroKorg is essentially a more compact version of the MS2000, it has the same interior, only the MS2000 has many more knobs while the Micro offers the same tools only more than half of them have to be clicked around to gain access to within the LCD display, something that only took me a few weeks to memorize and become proficient with). Both are 4-voice poly, and my favorite part of both is the availability of the Digital Waveform Generator System (DGWS) brought back from the early eighties DW-8000. The only problems I really have with these machines are that the harmonic additive synthesis only applies to the first oscillator, and of course the limitation of 4 voices (Juno has 6.. obviously, lol). The advantage the Micro has over the MS2000 is that the arpeggiator is step-programmable (which, with some advanced effort, can almost be replicated on the MS with the step-sequencer, although it is brutal because the notes are not directly programmed, one has to set the 16 step knobs to modulate the pitch, and as I'm sure you can imagine, this means turning each one of the 16 knobs ever-so slightly, as one would do on the back of a synth to fine tune the keys, in order to create variation in the linear/reverse/non-linear sequence, in order to reproduce the effect of sequenced notes) but the vocoder band is archaic compared to the MS, something I never really understood considering that the Micro is very likely as popular as it is BECAUSE it comes with the microphone and enables vocoding to be something that takes no real education, it's practically forced on you right out of the box.

Ultimately, with a Juno 6 and the MS2000, I will be right where I need to be to start recording music, my biggest road block is that I refuse to go the route of contemporary experimental / electronic and use computers and DAW to mix and arrange; I can create complex Berlin School / Synth-Pop style sequencing with what I have already, and the added layer of a polyphonic analog synthesizer would give me much greater freedom to have a total of 10 voices playing off each other, one as pad / sequence and the other as lead. I no longer enjoy playing with Ableton and the like, and do not want to record into a computer and copy and paste blocks of sound, nor buy a MIDI controller and modulate and effects process from that, this can all be done in real time with analog gear, the problem is the price of an analog sequencer and recorder. I have a mixer, so I'm part of the way there.

What about you Matt? Are you recording anything, or do you have any dreams floating around of getting further into it?

While I have the deepest respect for Moog and love the Minimoog probably more than all other synths combined, monophonic Moogs are not affordable enough to be considered for my plans, although I wouldn't rule it out in the future, absolutely not. I sold my Moog a few years ago and do not much miss it, only because I'm not in a position right now where that is the machine I just must have in order to proceed. Hopefully some day I will be able to afford another one and by then will have a small proper home studio set-up to include it with, but for now the Juno series and what I've already got is plenty.

 

nice pic Antithesis

me last weekend

 

That's cool, Jo!

What were you participating in?

 

One of my family wolf dances at a coming of age/naming celebration

 

It's really awesome that your family keeps the traditions, Jo.

 

Your pictures always make me feel so happy Joe

 

jo king 2016

 

Y'all better fucking watch it!!

 

Awesome pic, Matt!

 

i built a bunch of paia modules, because computers, you could get bare boards but you couldn't, or at least i couldn't, get the components needed to make power supplies that would produce the voltages needed for computer circuitry yet in the early 70s.

in 72 there was a butchla synth setup touring and being performed at college campuses. which i got to see and hear at uni.nevada.reno.

 

With my parents and my brother

 

You all look like very down to earth people.

 

Hehehe classic photo of bridesmaids and best man at my mums wedding