Hope everybody is having a good day. This is what Santa left under the Christmas Tree for me.....
An Arturia PolyBrute 12 (left) and a Moog Muse (right). I have been regressing over the past few years into completely analog synthesis, and I think these two are the current pinnacle.
I must confess this year has been a bit extravagant. I was after something to celebrate a milestone birthday this year and couldn't make my mind up, wether it would be the PolyBrute or Muse, so ended up with both (well either that or UK Labour are after your disposable income!). On the plus side, I now literally cannot fit anything else in.
My old SY99 and AN1x that used to be in the corner where the Polybrute now is were stacked, but these two new units are quite deep and that stacked arrangement wouldn't work without the upper unit obscuring the controls of the lower unit. So I opted to go side by side for now and see how I get on.
What this has meant is that I have lost the free desk space where the Moog now is - this is where laptops went (like the video laptop) when programming them. But I found some stands that raise the laptops behind the synhs and I have underdesk trays for keyboard and mouse.
Also, because the Polybrute is quite far from the main DAW (as can be seen in final picture) I have set up the laptop by the PolyBrute so that I can use it to Remote Desktop to the DAW PC, so I can access the PolyBrute app (library) more conveniently.
I am still diving into the PolyBrute and Muse and just starting to program them - I often start off with some signature sounds to see how they turn out on a synth.
I also took the plunge and got Synthesizer V Studio vocal software, which I have had in mind for a while after Parametric started highlighting it and what it can do. People who have been here for a while might remember I had a project called Carreg Ddu with a local singer. For all sorts of reasons that collaboration came to an end five or six years ago with a few songs in an unfinished state, and I have not been able to find a suitable singer to complete them. Every time I listen to these demo songs, I keep thinking I need to finish them, and I decided that if I had not found a singer by the end of this year, I would take the plunge with a synthesized singer. With the little time I have had today, with Synthesizer V I am seriously impressed!
So plenty to keep me occupied over the holiday....
An Arturia PolyBrute 12 (left) and a Moog Muse (right). I have been regressing over the past few years into completely analog synthesis, and I think these two are the current pinnacle.
I must confess this year has been a bit extravagant. I was after something to celebrate a milestone birthday this year and couldn't make my mind up, wether it would be the PolyBrute or Muse, so ended up with both (well either that or UK Labour are after your disposable income!). On the plus side, I now literally cannot fit anything else in.
My old SY99 and AN1x that used to be in the corner where the Polybrute now is were stacked, but these two new units are quite deep and that stacked arrangement wouldn't work without the upper unit obscuring the controls of the lower unit. So I opted to go side by side for now and see how I get on.
What this has meant is that I have lost the free desk space where the Moog now is - this is where laptops went (like the video laptop) when programming them. But I found some stands that raise the laptops behind the synhs and I have underdesk trays for keyboard and mouse.
Also, because the Polybrute is quite far from the main DAW (as can be seen in final picture) I have set up the laptop by the PolyBrute so that I can use it to Remote Desktop to the DAW PC, so I can access the PolyBrute app (library) more conveniently.
I am still diving into the PolyBrute and Muse and just starting to program them - I often start off with some signature sounds to see how they turn out on a synth.
I also took the plunge and got Synthesizer V Studio vocal software, which I have had in mind for a while after Parametric started highlighting it and what it can do. People who have been here for a while might remember I had a project called Carreg Ddu with a local singer. For all sorts of reasons that collaboration came to an end five or six years ago with a few songs in an unfinished state, and I have not been able to find a suitable singer to complete them. Every time I listen to these demo songs, I keep thinking I need to finish them, and I decided that if I had not found a singer by the end of this year, I would take the plunge with a synthesized singer. With the little time I have had today, with Synthesizer V I am seriously impressed!
So plenty to keep me occupied over the holiday....
Statistics: Posted by Derek — Wed Dec 25, 2024 3:07 pm