From: sine path square field <tsines@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: techno equipment FAQ
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:43:22 GMT
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| On Fri, 22 Jan 1993, Rave Crusader wrote:
|
| > We could also get some FAQs like,
| > "What are 101's, 202's, 303's, 808's, and 909's?"
| > "What should I buy to get started?" etc..
|
| how about general summaries of what various pieces of equipment (that
| might be of interest to the techno musician) are and can do. i know it's a
| lot of information, but it's also very useful. allows some comparison
| between things, finding what you need.
|
| assuming there's not such a FAQ already in existence:
|
| if people are willing to write little descriptions of their favorite
| equipment, i hereby volunteer to compile it all into something. WARNING: i
| may not be the best for this job. after all, i know relatively little
| about the stuff involved. it seems to me descriptions should:
|
|    (1) be concise
|    (2) include what it is (drum machine, synth, sound module, sampler,
|         sequencer, computer sampling board, software)
|    (3) strengths compared to other things in its class (class of what
|         it is and class of how much it costs)
|         such as: nice sounds, inexpensive, good interface, etc
|    (4) weaknesses compared to same
|    (5) price - how much new/used you've paid or seen it for
|         (i'll add info from the rec.music.synth price list)
|    (6) what it goes well with - if you think the thing works particularly
|         well with some other device, mention it (i.e. "boy!
|         controlling my X1-ZZ47b couldn't be more pleasurable than
|         with my 27b/6!")
|    (7) what it doesn't go well with
|    (8) caveats and warnings (i.e. "no midi" or "you'll need a 386
|         with 8M of RAM and windows")
|    (9) be concise
|
| remember, there's a lot of equipment out there. try to compress your
| information. for example, if there's a line of related products, you
| can describe the cheapest and then say what each one up adds.
|

i have already made a detailed, yet brief description of some of the machines
out there. i was about to do a part 2, of the drum machines and other synths
(etc) yet i feel that i didn't have enough information in my brain to do so. i
know a lot about some shit...but i can't just say, well, this is exactly
this....blah blah blah... i just don't know enough about the hardware to do so.

i wrote before on the 101, 202, 303, as well as the sh-0X series and the
modular series.. but i put in stuff that wasn't really there (i messed up the
numbers)... stupid me.

there are lines of rolands i haven;t even heard of..// there is a string/organ
only synth with CV/gate <<OUTPUTS>> but no ins, the SA-09 analog saturn
synth... the s-700 synth, the mc-8, an analog 8-track sequencer that listed for
$4000 and was programmed in step time...

with this type of unique character to companies who produce limited edition
synths and all (i found some really really rare sequential stuff.. etc...)
we will have a grand old time listing everything that could be used for
techno...

this could include stuff like shortwave radios; televisions; sinewave 
generators; people have also built a lot of their own stuff, personal mods.



etc..

how about we post lists of our equipment and once we get the list, we could 
then each describe the synths in detail... and drum machines, etc.. whatever we
use for music... i like to do stuff with fucking around with the CV/gate 
controls. etc.. but some like to keep a cleaner setup. etc..


reply!





sines

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