There appears to be a new Ebay scan in which the auction link on Ebay redirects you to a phishing site that looks exactly like the auction post. If you log into Ebay on that site you are actually logging into the phishing site where they can grab your info including your password. What is scary about this is that it is not an email link sent to you that is easily identifiable. It IS THE EBAY auction on Ebay itself. If you clicked on the auction link for the last EMS Synthi post I put up here, change your password immediately and check for any activity on your account. I would check any accounts for activity that you have link to Ebay such as Paypal. Do this immediately and be careful. Thanks goes to retrosynth for catching this one. I got caught on this one myself. BTW, please spread the news. This is real.
NOTE: If you want to be safe purchasing on Ebay, there is only one way to do it. Purchase by Credit Card only and make sure your credit card has fraud protection. Call your credit card company and find out. If it does than all you have to do is report the fraud to your credit card company and they will reverse charges and handle the situation for you.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
MACBETH STUDIO SYSTEMS Site Updates
There are some new shots of the M5N on the Macbeth Studio Systems website along with some news last posted on Novermber 12th if you haven't dropped by in a while. The following is just an excerpt of what you will find on the home page:"Each Oscillator now has the 'hidden' preset calibration parameters available to the user- with the use of a small screwdriver- parameters such as tuning, waveshaping and range are now at the discretion of the player- not everybody wants oscillators rigidly in tune- and some may feel that they prefer a more vintage sound by affecting how the oscillators track in accordance with each other- subtly adjusting the oscillator tracking can provide the user with some very 'fat' bass end sounds- conversely - high end detuning can add some real sparkle to recordings! Any of the adjustments can be quickly and easily returned to the normal without fuss. Other functions also have this facility and this also means not having to send a unit back to be recalibrated..."
marvin gaye - sexual healing drum beat Roland TR-808
YouTube via lewisjp8young.
"i created this sound completey by ear, i know its not absolutey perfect but if anyone can help me out to get it completey right i would appreciate it."
Vintage Synth Jam
YouTube via lewisjp8young. Sent my way via JB. Spot the synths.
"I was just having a late night jamming session and decided to post it on you tube. Hope you enjoy"
New Tracks via Carbon111
There are a couple of new tracks featuring the KORG OASYS, Yamaha VL1, DSI Prophet '08, Nord Modular, and Waldorf XT amongst other synths up on Carbon111's music page, specifically Dead Leaves and Crows for Marie. There are a number of older tracks on the page as well. What's great about the track listing is that each has the list of instruments used so you can get a general idea of what the instruments sound like. Definitely worth checking out. When done be sure to check out the root of Carbon111 for more synth resources including some of the best pages dedicated to individual synthesizers.
Tony Allgood on Propellerheads Thor
The following came in on the AH list from Tony Allgood of Oakley Sound Systems. I thought it was an interesting perspective.
"> Anyone had a chance of trying out the new THOR synth in Reason...
Yes. I've been a Reason user for quite some time now, and I signed up for 4.0 as soon as it came out. I don't tend to use Reason these days much though, but I thought that Thor would be useful. Indeed, my first thoughts were that it was very good. However, the more I played with it the things I found on it that I didn't like.
The filter's overdrive is no where near right. There's a harshness about it that sounds simply like Reason's own distortion unit. It has two modes for some reason - something about the overdrive being applied at different points in the filter. Anyway, it doesn't sound right.
The other thing is that the filter is not 'always on', I guess to conserve CPU. This means that at low frequencies and high resonance you can hear it 'warming up' at the start of every note. On a real synth, the VCF is always connected and always ready to accept its input. In Thor it must start at the same initialised state for every note. This means that every attack sounds wrong - its takes a while for resonance to start. Other VSTi do this much better.
The 'Moog' filter mode is the best one, but really its nowhere near as good as the donation ware ASynth.
The oscillators alias quite badly. The FM one is really easy to hear this, but the analog one does it too. Running Reason at 88.2kHz helps.
Expect aliasing at levels of around -55dB, which is pretty bad these days.
You can't detune them very easily. They're just too accurate in pitch.
ie. play an octave and they phase lock. Yuck.
The modulation matrix is good, but its a shame there's only two knobs on the front panel.
The wavetable oscillator is excellent. Limited waveforms though, but the PPG clones are wonderful.
CPU is quite high in comparison to the other Reason synths.
The note allocation, legato and glide modes are good. The EGs are not bad at all. Perfectly linear attack, but exponential decay and release.
Almost identical to the Moog Voyager I might add.
Reason's new sequencer takes more than a little getting used to.
In summary: Good, but there are better sounding VSTi out there. I prefer the Pro-53 and ASynth, coupled with the freeware GSuite effects. Routing is good, but its beaten by things like Vaz Modular and Absynth. CPU is fair, but it needs to run at higher sample rates to make it sound good.
But, after all that, if anyone wants to buy Reason 4.0. I'm selling my copy for 150GBP including shipping to UK/EU.
Tony
www.oakleysound.com"
"> Anyone had a chance of trying out the new THOR synth in Reason...
Yes. I've been a Reason user for quite some time now, and I signed up for 4.0 as soon as it came out. I don't tend to use Reason these days much though, but I thought that Thor would be useful. Indeed, my first thoughts were that it was very good. However, the more I played with it the things I found on it that I didn't like.
The filter's overdrive is no where near right. There's a harshness about it that sounds simply like Reason's own distortion unit. It has two modes for some reason - something about the overdrive being applied at different points in the filter. Anyway, it doesn't sound right.
The other thing is that the filter is not 'always on', I guess to conserve CPU. This means that at low frequencies and high resonance you can hear it 'warming up' at the start of every note. On a real synth, the VCF is always connected and always ready to accept its input. In Thor it must start at the same initialised state for every note. This means that every attack sounds wrong - its takes a while for resonance to start. Other VSTi do this much better.
The 'Moog' filter mode is the best one, but really its nowhere near as good as the donation ware ASynth.
The oscillators alias quite badly. The FM one is really easy to hear this, but the analog one does it too. Running Reason at 88.2kHz helps.
Expect aliasing at levels of around -55dB, which is pretty bad these days.
You can't detune them very easily. They're just too accurate in pitch.
ie. play an octave and they phase lock. Yuck.
The modulation matrix is good, but its a shame there's only two knobs on the front panel.
The wavetable oscillator is excellent. Limited waveforms though, but the PPG clones are wonderful.
CPU is quite high in comparison to the other Reason synths.
The note allocation, legato and glide modes are good. The EGs are not bad at all. Perfectly linear attack, but exponential decay and release.
Almost identical to the Moog Voyager I might add.
Reason's new sequencer takes more than a little getting used to.
In summary: Good, but there are better sounding VSTi out there. I prefer the Pro-53 and ASynth, coupled with the freeware GSuite effects. Routing is good, but its beaten by things like Vaz Modular and Absynth. CPU is fair, but it needs to run at higher sample rates to make it sound good.
But, after all that, if anyone wants to buy Reason 4.0. I'm selling my copy for 150GBP including shipping to UK/EU.
Tony
www.oakleysound.com"
drbloexcerpt - Waldorf Blofeld Demo
A super short but good one via Stefan Trippler: drbloexcerpt.mp3
The TR 909 meets the TB 303
YouTube via eljuanlux.
"This is a demo using a NanoVerb Multieffects Processor combined with the TR 909 and the TB 303, i hope u enjoy !"
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