[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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