"600 Bucks: So Much Money, So Little Time
We ask PC World staffers how they might spend their $600 economic stimulus payment.
Harvestman Modular Synthesizer
Peter Tripodi, Facilities Coordinator: Assuming I can get it together to find all my paperwork (I'm a tax "extentialist"), I'll probably spend the payment on a few modules for my ever growing modular synthesizer. Maybe a bitcrusher to offset its mostly analog composition. There's a voltage controlled 8-bit delay/looper by Harvestman that I've had my eyes on. Lo-fi? Sub-fi, baby!! Or I could get a Flame Midi-Talking-Synth; having dual Speakjets is like having two Stephen Hawkings doing bird calls and barnyard impressions at the twist of a joystick. That's what I call economically stimulating."
link to article on PC World. via Mr. Array. You might recognize the image from
here.
Official Harvestman website
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"600 Bucks: So Much Money, So Little Time
images via this auction. There is also one here.
"I have one and I use it all the time it as a kind of musical "leatherman" for testing MIDI related devices, or ideas .......I've also taken it with me on Craigslist purchases so I can check stuff out before I hand out the cash....although I haven't bought much in the last year....just a T-resonator ...I don't really use it for music making much, but sometimes when I travel I throw it in the suitcase as a sound module for the laptop. .....the canned sequences, tacky as they are, are also good for for trying out chord sequences because you can chain chords together within the sequencer and get an idea what it might sound like with better equipment, more space and more time. it has 16 channels so when I need a GM MIDI sound source it is a whole lot better than the built in one from microsoft woindows.. it does eat batteries however, so I carry a power adapter when I can. The LCD is barely readable in certain light conditions too"
