Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock.progressive
Titolo: Looking for analogue...

Can anybody tell me about modern and contemporary keyboards emulating the
minimoog? It's too expensive and difficult in maintenance!
My friend told me that the most famous synth makers (like korg, roland,
ecc.) have started to build some keyboards with the control panel full of
potentiometers.
Thanks for any answer.
I'm sorry for my bad English.
Simone, Florence, Italy

The Nord Lead does an excellent job of emulating a Mini-Moog...IMHO
IIIC

forgot...
http://www.clavia.se/nordlead.html
IIIC

 potentiometers.
You have several choices. If you can tell the difference between a digital
and analog filter, look at the Waldorf Pulse. It's an analog synth under
digital control. It may have only six potentiometers, but it's got a very
elegant page system that allows you to control its parameters and modulation
matrix (which is extensive!). Every parameter is controllable via MIDI CC
messages and it has a filter that is based on the Moog ladder design, but
with some changes for the sake of stability. Check out the analog heaven
mailing list page for more views on it. Many put it on a plane with the
Minimoog and the Pro-One. Paul Nagle of Sound on Sound magazine prefers his
three Pulses to the Minimoog.
Studio Electronics makes the SE-1 which is another modern analog unit under
MIDI control. The synth follows the Minimoog paradigm faithfully, featuring
all the potentiometers you'd need, but some say its software envelopes are a
little slower than the Pulse's. They also make the ATC-1, which is kinda like
a Moog source...but one with interchangeable filters.
If you want polyphonic synthesis, you can chain several Pulses together
(extravagant...but what the heck?) Or you could look at the synths that
digitally emulate analog synths. The Nord Lead was an early leader in this
race, and it still has it's virtues. It's got all the potentiometers you
could wish for, killer looks, and a sound that's pretty close to analog. Korg
has produced the Prophecy, which is now out of production. Only a few
potentiometers, but a lot of great performance features geared towards the
soloist. Roland offers the JP8000 which tries to capture some of the glory of
the Jupiters of yore (though it falls a bit short in the eyes of some
purists.) Yamaha offers the AN1x. I never looked too closely at that one.
Access, whose wares are also assembled by Waldorf, makes the VIRUS virtual
analog synthesizer. A good offering, but some have complained of the
stability of it's OS.
If you read the analog heaven mailing list, you may be surprised that a new
digital synth is wowing many of the faithful. That synth being the new Nord
Modular. For approx $2500, you get a dsp based digital synth that
successfully emulates a modular synthesizer. If you have the money, that is
what the cognoscenti would recommend, short of a Doepfer or Serge.
Regards,
David

potentiometers.
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