Tiny synth recommendations?

[01010111]

I've been able to get some pretty thick sounds out of it. They all still have that steel-and-mortar flavor, but that's kinda the nature of the beast. I'll do a quick and dirty run-through of some of the thicker sounds I've made with it and post a link here latter today.

[curt]

Is a Korg MicroKorg too big?

[behndy]

hurm. hadna even thought about the MicroKorg. it has some cool stuff, but i kinda hate mini keys. i'll run through one at GC sometime though.

[curt]

i kinda hate mini keys.

So the Teenage Engineering OP-1 is out?

[curt]

i kinda hated the no interface thing on the Evolver. even after i'd had it awhile it was super easy to get lost meu divit where i'd have to back out of a patch and start over. i like the display on the Blofeld a lot. looks usssseful.

True. I think with the Tetra you'd want to use the computer editor for sound design and assign the 4 encoders to whatever you want to tweak in each patch. Kinda like a Nord Micro Modular.

[behndy]

oof. the OP-1 is so hawt. but yeah, all the goodness would be lost how i plan to use it. i think RobotSpeak DOES stock DSI stuff. i might try to hit there this weekend to play with things.

PLAY.

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

kp pro?
mininova?
minibrute?

[01010111]

Here're some of my favorite settings, I programmed all these because I've hated all the presets. I probably should've included the one I call faptain kirk...oh well.

[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/williamstewart-1/blofeld-sound-examples[/soundcloud]

[behndy]

awesome. so much hawntess.

does it do more pad'ish/ambient stuff well too?

[behndy]

nurp. just found some pretty extensive YT vids on the preset pad stuff. sounds like it's pretty much exactly what i'm looking for. WOOT.

now i'm trying to decide if an octave and a half floor keyboard makes more sense. i think it does. i'm so used to thinking of B as the lowest root note that probably would be better to have two B's to work with.

[MEC]

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[bigchiefbc]

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[MEC]

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[01010111]

nurp. just found some pretty extensive YT vids on the preset pad stuff. sounds like it's pretty much exactly what i'm looking for. WOOT.

now i'm trying to decide if an octave and a half floor keyboard makes more sense. i think it does. i'm so used to thinking of B as the lowest root note that probably would be better to have two B's to work with.

I left out my pad settings on purpose because I remember when I was trying to decide on whether or not to get this synth it seemed like it was impossible to find people demoing sounds that weren't pads. I remember I was a little worried when I got it that it would only be able to do good pads and nothing else. And pads are way easy to do with this, as are organ sounds for some reason

[behndy]

oof. i wish i had the extra cash right now. it's going to be about a month probably. just paid off the Ciokolate and Pitch Grinder, then i leave for Tokyo on the 9th. monies a bit tight for fun stuff for a hinute.

waiting until the next GC sale isn't a bad idea at all though. hurrrrrrrm.