[A6] A6 sine osc
MelloT at aol.com
MelloT at aol.com
Mon Mar 14 13:38:07 PST 2005
You act as if Alesis - a new company that did not design and build the A6,
could do something now. They really can't the synth is DONE. It becomes your
problem if your attitude is - this tiny flaw makes me not want to use such a
powerful instrument.
>>> Have fun, for you have contributed to the fall of manufacturing
accountability and the rise of cheapness.>>
We are having fun, making music. And evidently, you don't know the history
of keyboards, this is all nothing new to Alesis or this synth:
The Hammond B3 - has a noticeable "key click" as the contacts stuck down
each time. They factory could NOT get rid of it, but Hammond organs still
survived, I believe. And the players came to find that they WANTED this sound. The
Hammond is not considered cheap, but it has major flaws.
The Mellotron - used by Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Bowie, King Crimson,
Radiohead, Bjork, Moody Blues, nearly everyone. ALL of its sounds are recorded
out of tune. That's why it has character that is not found in samplers
nowadays. There is not Attack or Decay, which is unthinkable on any sampler-based
instrument. But it still gets revered and used all the time.
The Minimoog - with terrible oscillators that drifted out of tune all the
time. It was a success, and later, they "fixed" the oscillators until they
didn't drift - and didn't sound good.
The Prophet V - the Rev1 instruments ALL have major problems and blow up. It
went on to become one of the most popular analog synths of the 80's. When
they "fixed" it - it didn't sound as good anymore.
Old programmable drum machines (808, CR series, Linndrum, etc) used to
hesitate a slight bit before they jumped to a new pattern, during your song! But
it HAD to be that way - it's how the tiny slow computers worked then. And
people made us of them, and the companies succeeded.
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