Torque wrote:I'm sorry but i understand Legowelt on this one pretty well. I know plenty about synthesis, in fact i've built my own analog pieces from scratch quite a few times down to the basic designs as projects for my apprenticeship. That being said i would rather have a ROMpler too. The main reason being that it's quicker to get an idea out. Let's cut all the BS for a minute. The modular thing is straight up a matter of taste, you get them because you're fascinated with the basics of synthesis. I get it...i like synthesis too, but even the most hardcore modular guy will admit that there are a sh!t ton of disadvantages unless you plan to spend $20,000 to get all the modules necessary to make everything. I'm serving an apprenticeship in Electroacoustics and the more i understand circuitry the more i realize how musicians get straight up ripped off. Some of the modules they sell for $700 a piece you could make with radio shack parts for $20. It has to be the most ridiculously inflated market next to the high fidelity home listener market i've ever seen. That being said though it is neat patching in your own chords and all that sh!t but unless you can show me a modular system for around $1000 that can do what an Access Virus TI does i'll stay off the bandwagon for a while.
Sure, it would be much quicker and simpler to pop in a bunch of presets and be on your way,
but if I'm going by that mindset why don't I just download some sample packs and drum loops and call it a day?
Oh and my modular was probably >2,000 and has infinitely more capabilities than the Virus, I can do polyphony, or monophonic leads while doing other things, multiple filters, VCAs, etc.
And another thing I've become addicted to on the modular you don't have as much in regular synths is being able to change the response curve, I never realize how much you could shape a sound solely by the shape of the envelope before I got into patching on the modular.