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Nord And QS
Clavia Nord Lead 2 and Alesis QS 6.1 synthesizers in Heavenside Labs Studio 2, 2004.
The alesis is one of those standard boards you find in a studio. It has all the right sounds- none of them perfect, but all of them close enough for good music. I like them because the operating system is easy to scroll about in, and the sound banks contain the kind of stuff I need- good pianos, organs, and rhodes... decent synths, decent pads, decent string and weird sounds, good percussion. Of course, I thought this until I heard a Yamaha Motif for the first time and changed my pants (after seeign the price tag that is).
The Nord Lead is an analog synth for the Bob Moogs and Keith Emmerson's out there. There is no effects unit, and no special modern features like a 1000 preset smart arpeggiator or a KAOS pad. This is pure analog, or pure analog modeling as it were... just oscillators and sound generators, how all modern virtual analogs should be. The Nord Lead, unlike, say a Microkorg or Virus Indigo, is really meant for a pianist who plays synthesizer, not a DJ who uses VST's in an industrial or techno band. I'm of course not trying to insult DJ's or techno artists, it just seems that many people have a Nord in their arsenal just to say they have it, without really utelizing the beautiful sounds that one can generate with a bit of tweaking.
I've owned about 2 dozen synths in the past decade, ranging from old digitals Casio CZ3000's and Ensoniq ESQ1's up to more modern stuff like roland JP8000 and Korg Trinity, and old analogs like MonoPoly, Micromoog, Polysix, and then some. I prefer the simple stuff, like the Juno 6/60/106 and the Korg MonoPoly/Polysix, where the waveform creation is ovbious and well laid-out. All this scrolling through menus and setting up presets that you need to do onboard the computer OS in a Fantom or Triton is just frustrating to me. I was raised on a Fender Rhodes.
My favorite synth of all time is the Juno 106. My favorite device with an AC plug and piano keys is the 76 Fender Rhodes.
Nord And QS
Clavia Nord Lead 2 and Alesis QS 6.1 synthesizers in Heavenside Labs Studio 2, 2004.
The alesis is one of those standard boards you find in a studio. It has all the right sounds- none of them perfect, but all of them close enough for good music. I like them because the operating system is easy to scroll about in, and the sound banks contain the kind of stuff I need- good pianos, organs, and rhodes... decent synths, decent pads, decent string and weird sounds, good percussion. Of course, I thought this until I heard a Yamaha Motif for the first time and changed my pants (after seeign the price tag that is).
The Nord Lead is an analog synth for the Bob Moogs and Keith Emmerson's out there. There is no effects unit, and no special modern features like a 1000 preset smart arpeggiator or a KAOS pad. This is pure analog, or pure analog modeling as it were... just oscillators and sound generators, how all modern virtual analogs should be. The Nord Lead, unlike, say a Microkorg or Virus Indigo, is really meant for a pianist who plays synthesizer, not a DJ who uses VST's in an industrial or techno band. I'm of course not trying to insult DJ's or techno artists, it just seems that many people have a Nord in their arsenal just to say they have it, without really utelizing the beautiful sounds that one can generate with a bit of tweaking.
I've owned about 2 dozen synths in the past decade, ranging from old digitals Casio CZ3000's and Ensoniq ESQ1's up to more modern stuff like roland JP8000 and Korg Trinity, and old analogs like MonoPoly, Micromoog, Polysix, and then some. I prefer the simple stuff, like the Juno 6/60/106 and the Korg MonoPoly/Polysix, where the waveform creation is ovbious and well laid-out. All this scrolling through menus and setting up presets that you need to do onboard the computer OS in a Fantom or Triton is just frustrating to me. I was raised on a Fender Rhodes.
My favorite synth of all time is the Juno 106. My favorite device with an AC plug and piano keys is the 76 Fender Rhodes.