[sdiy] Holy price tags, Batman!

[Rude 66]

> Actually they sound sort of tinkly. Great for sound effects and
processing,
> but it's next to impossible to get the oscillators on a VCS3 to track for
> more than a couple of octaves if you're lucky. The main appeal is the fact
> you get lots of patching flexibility in a small size because of the patch
> panel. And they look cooler than most synths. :-)

true.  a synthi is a toy. as in: very fun to play. we have a vcs3, synthi a
and aks in the cem studio. they are also excellent educational synths, which
is what we use them for, and somehow even people who normally aren't the
slightest bit interested in synths, end up sitting with t for hours.
the cool thing about a synthi for me is it forces you to think differently
that with normal synths.


> There's also the fact they're not scaled to 1V/octave, so they're pretty
> much useless in a larger setup unless you build interfacing circuitry.
Also
> it's very hard indeed to get signals into and out of the patchbay. So it's
> hard to plug them into other stuff. Which is of course the whole point of
> having a modular set-up.

not really.. the ysthi's not only have 2 line inputs, but also 2 mic inputs.
you can directly plug a guitar or microphone into them. there is a german
book that we have, i believe it's called 'spiel der synthi' or something
similar, i seem to remember Rehberg's name connected with this book, and in
it are various examples of connecting the synthi to all kinds of external
equipment. some of the cartoon style drawings are hilarious..

r./