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Rogue Process
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My first thoughts: ANOTHER VA using basic sampled waveforms with paltry front-panel control and a software-based editor? Nigga, PLEASE!
Seriously, I dunno why I'm even posting this. Maybe somebody can give me some reassurance that this won't totally suck?
@RP I am so sorry bro but there are no assurances to be had. I feel for ya though...
soillodge
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That is a really ugly interface..
`michael
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a drive stage on the filter really sets it apart?
digitalgeist
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I dunno. I keep coming back to this: unless you can write/design your own one-cycle waveform in the digital domain and send it to hardware for serious processing you aren't really breaking ground anymore. Hell you could do that in Absynth in like '04 without hardware, or Ableton Live's Sampler with any waveform from a source sample. Distortion/bit reduction is the big sell with this? I'm pretty sure Access is confident in the TI that had that with the primary release in '05 and they should be.
And don't get me started on the knobs. Any VA that's released should be ashamed of itself if it doesn't have a knob to control a parameter - at least envelopes! The Roland JP-8000/8080 is a prime example and that came out in '97. If you want to cycle through menus be my guest but it shouldn't be necessary. Not 14 years after the JP-8000 at least.
@Alex: every played around with a Nord Lead *G*?
Rogue Process
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I'm not even too worried about having a function per-encoder or anything like that. I just don't want to have this thing hooked up to a bloody computer just to edit my damned patches in a reasonable manner.
And for $600 I could easily just go get myself a good second-hand 90s VA like a JP8000, a Prophecy, or even an old Virus and have a ton more control.
grittiness edgyness? wtf?
and the included audio interface assures me that both the synth and the interface are of high grade...
and in the end, will someone PLEASE stop hiring Richard Devine to do presets for every fucking new piece of gear that comes out???
Rogue Process
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"Hi, I'm Richard Devine" *sioujfrnw934tg934gtn93u4h5goi3n8498gt8n3o4ugb230o49gh9348bhg93ng934ng9348bg9384gh923084hgtsplrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*
Lucky guy getting to brap for a living, but still, he's almost becoming the new Jordan Rudess of 'default big-name synth endorser'.
To be honest guys I don't know what you're talking about, this is obviously the most original and ingenious piece of kit ever. It can make 'DOWN RIGHT RUDE' sounds.
I'm getting this, right after I buy this new piece of kit I saw called a drum manine...no..drum macine...drum machine. Right after that.
Rogue Process
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Hey, I can make a downright rude sound as well...
FROM MY BUTT LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL :P
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soillodge
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ROFL at Seamus.. :D
`michael
digitalgeist
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@Alex: every played around with a Nord Lead *G*?
No I never did actually. I haven't played around with Nords much, my friend used to have a Nord Modular that had some nice patches to it though...
It's probably something they want to sell to all the effing hipster electro house producers :) More of the same shit, yay!
Has anyone actually played around with it?
Eric Christian
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Has anyone actually played around with it?
I've spent at least a good accumulated 2 hours on it down at Guitar Center plus read the manual online between visits. It makes some really interesting sounds but overall it has too many problems. First and foremost it looks like a kitchen appliance. Fuck that. It should be offered in black. So yeah, when you switch patches you have to press the key twice to get it to play a voice. I'm not kidding, I turned it off and on several times and asked the drone there about it and yeah he verified this "feature". Maybe it was just this particular keyboard, I don't know. Also, numerous times it would freeze up and be totally unresponsive. Again, turn it off and on. The knobs and buttoms seem pretty sturdy and the learning curve is real quick. The display sucks though. I just expect more from Avid however.
the sounds on the video seem really flat and uninspiring, nothing I couldn't achieve with a cheap VSTi. M-Audio really needs to step up their game but I suppose they're shooting for the entry level prosumer market.
isn't the owner of m-audio the guy who made the beast of an analog additive synthesizer.. the Con Brio? .. or something like that
seems like he started out a dreamer and then fell in love with the american dream
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