[A6] Mini vs A6 part 2

[Colin Chung]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Remi Flygel" <tom-rf at online.no>
To: "A6" <a6 at code404.com>
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: [A6] Mini vs A6 part 2


> I found that keeping both autotunings off for a long time would put my A6
> badly out of tune after a few days (or even if I opened the door to let in
> fresh air). And we're not speaking pleasant detuning here, more like the
> lower part of the keyboard would be a halfnote lower than the upper part.
So
> I turned temp tuning back on and kept background tuning off.
> Funny you mention this, because the unstable tuning WAS referred to as a
> drawback among minimoog players. Rick Wakeman for instance, says that his
> synths could drop the pitch several halfnotes during a whole concert,
> forcing him to transpose his parts accordingly down the keyboard to get
the
> right pitch. He would start on a C and end up playing A at the end (to
keep
> the same pitch that is)


if you turn both background and temp tuning, yes you do need to autotune
a lot. But once its been on for a while it's quite stable
No different from any other vintage analog polysynth really
except the A6 autone is really slow :)

but the sound is totally different, especially when you do a whole
multi-timbral track in realtime on one A6


My Mini isn't too bad. It doesn't go wild or anything :)
But it does makes it sound organic and alive.
Not just the pitch but the envelopes and filters
probably drift too. Just enough to add that random element
but not enough to be obvious