As a fan of every style of music, having played and composed just about every style as well; I find it interesting to watch others experiment with gear. I remember running Roland drum machines through distortion and delay pedals in high school, trying to replicate some track from The Boredoms or Mr. Bungle or Squarepusher. And although I did not succeed, I learned how different gear interacts and that experimentation is the mother of invention...unless you're Frank Zappa!
I love Pigtronix pedals, I have been friends with these guys for a couple of years and highly recommend you all check out this video of the owner, founder and genius Dave Koltai. He demos their Mothership Analog Synth pedal controlling a Korg MS-20 Analog synth!
Korg recently announced the release of the MS-20M, which is basically the MS-20 Mini, without the keys and the added LFO sync and FM Filter. Plus it comes with a Volca SQ-1 Sequencer and ships for $1100. Forget that Mini!
Oh yeah, and they're releasing an updated Arp :-O
See my other post about the MS-20 as well, but I just found this amazing video of someone using an MS-20 and some other Korg products in unison, absolutely amazing.
Gear used, synths:
KORG volca bass x2, keys, ibanze es-2, jomox t-resonator II, elektron analog four, roland TR-8, kaoss pad, KORG ms-20 ---
Gear used, guitar:
Line6 variax 700, strymon timeline, zoom G3
Hi everyone, I'm working really hard on trying to get the Analog Four...taking a bit more time than I would like due to difficulty with getting in contact with the vendor.
However, in other exciting news, we did list our first analog synthesizer today! The Novation Bass Station II... Check it out and let me know if you have any feedback. Thanks for all the support!
What's the attraction of Elektron Analog Four over the others. A sequencer demo and no keyboard? I want something to play. The bonus of the Nord is that it gets you to modeling a lot of others.
Agreed, the A4 is a bit more of a groovebox. It does have a keyboard of sorts but it's more for programming than performing. You could always hook it up to the the MIDI keyboard of your choice, though.
Also, as macks mentioned - the Nord A1 is not true analog. Modeling is all well and good but imho you'll never quite get the same sound as the real deal.
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