You can find the full review on The Stretta Procedure.The following are a couple of excerpts:
"I spent all of last night playing with it, giggling. Tons of fun. I love putting reverb before the amplifier so the lines you play are smeared, but still gated by the keyboard. A reverb module makes patching far more easy, and opens up creative opportunities you may not have considered before. The Z5000 also includes a handful of other programs like chorus, flanging, but the real focus is on various reverbs. Now I really want the Plan B Model 40 Elf-series headphone preamp - everything is contained in the modular case!"
"When you get a new module, your old instrument is entirely new again. This is the really cool thing about modulars, and a concept I'm dying to exploit in software. You want to try the module with everything else you already have. It makes the entire system more powerful. You're not just buying a single new module, you're gaining what that module can do, in interaction with everything else in the system."
It's also typically much cheaper to pick up a new module vs. a new synth if you need a quick GAS fix.
if you are looking for fun software, give zebra a try! the closest you can come to the joy and flexibility of a modular system. Zebra2.
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Most zebra sounds I've heard have sounded sort of glassy to me.
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ReplyDeleteUnless you chose MOTM format. :(
There should be a MOTM module called "the Proxy" that has little arms connected from fake MOTM knobs that map to knobs of the hosted module. And little 1/4" to 1/8" mapping cables in tubes too.
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