MATRIXSYNTH: Creamware Prodyssey ASB - bass presets - part 1


Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Creamware Prodyssey ASB - bass presets - part 1


YouTube via triumphthruxton.

"Creamware Prodyssey is a hardware replica of the ARP Odyssey with an ARP and Minimoog filter. This video shows some tweaking with the preset bass patches. We really like it! www.clickpop.net."

9 comments:

  1. It is not a 'hardware replica' -- it is a 'facsimile'.

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  2. I tried one of those and was impressed on how well it was layed out, the sound was pretty nice also.

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  3. There should be a new list: Synths that put companies out of business.

    I bet that more often than not, the synth that put a company out of business was pretty rad.

    Like, wasn't the Memorymoog one of the last Moogs before they imploded?
    The Chroma was the last ARP, right?
    And didn't the Alesis Andromeda sink them?
    Then there's the one-hit-wonders like the Hartmann Neuron.


    I bet a list like this would represent *the* synths to own (well, maybe not the Hartmann Neuron :).

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  4. The Chroma was made by Rhodes..designed by ARP. It was the Avatar Guitar Synth that sunk ARP's boat. It's not accurate to point to the last product produced by a company as the product that sank them. In many cases it wasn't a single product like the Arp Avatar was, but poor management and products that were costly to manufacture (memorymoog)and difficult to market against the cheaper alternative products.
    Is the Andomeda considered Alesis's
    Waterloo ?

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  5. Well, no 'top n list' is entirely accurate, but such a list would be great to ahve.

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  6. Actually, there were a scant few ARP Chromas. Very few. I played one back when they came out, and even then I had some concerns about it. It just didn't seem like the right synth at the right time, plus some of the build was questionable, IMHO.

    I'd have to agree that more of what killed certain companies was mismanagement, especially in both ARP and Moog's cases. Moog was late to get on board with MIDI and topladen with non-MIDI devices, plus their weird flirtation with the C64 (Song Producer). And ARP's managerial cluster**** is one of the most infamous stories in electronic music, resulting in things like the Avatar (synth guitar before it was ready), Electronic Piano (with the melty membrane switches), and Quadra (synth sandwich that didn't know what to do best, if anything).

    Others, I'll give you, though...the Neuron really was/is a synth that was too perplexing for most people, too expensive to be sustainable, and took Hartmann down like a lead balloon. Which is a shame, because the Neuron's premise was promising.

    Notice, also, you didn't see much in the way of synths out of Kawai after the K5000. Again, brilliant idea + confusing implementation = tankage. Which is a shame, because I liked the K5000S as well as a lot of Kawai's other synth efforts.

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  7. That's a sweet looking software dongle/control surface.


    =)
    (runs and hides)


    p.s. not too impressed with choice of the sounds. ugh. donald duck quacking is all the rage lately, though.

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  8. zeroc001, it's not actually. They are stand alone boxes. No PC required.

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  9. this video doesn't show the potential of the beast.
    Do you think it sounds like a Arp according to that demo ? Or that it even sound at all ?

    I'll make some videos when I have time and when the paint dryed on my Prodyssey ;-)

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