If I had the money ($3500.00 for the Kyma), I would buy a Symbolic Sounds Kyma system and a good notebook computer.. Essentially, the Kyma system has a hardware accelerator (a whole bunch of Motorola chips in a box) along with a wicked software package. The system is more a language than a synth, it can be a synth, a processor, or a sequencer. The system can be upgraded to the point of insane overkill and even the basic system will do 80 some bands of vocoding.It also does spectral morphing and all sorts of other extremely cool esoteric algorhythmns (over 300 algorhythmns so far) so it will do any synthesizer technique possible as well as any permutations you can think of-in other words, you can do granular synthesis with subtractive synthesis and throw in FM to modify any crazy thing you want then run it through a whole bunch of other things ad infinitum.Totally modular and totally flexible. http://www.symbolicsound.com If I won the lottery, I'd also like one of Rex Probe's Sound Transform systems. essentially Rex makes brand new Serge modular systems. A basic system runs about $8000.00. The sixteen step touch sequencer looks very cool as does the boolean logic module. http://www.scampers.com/EGRES/index.htm I also wouldn't mind one of the new Mini Moogs.I want one with a walnut cabinet.They're only $3500.00. http://www.bigbriar.com Man, I have expensive tastes. Rainbow Jimmy http://www.spaceanimals.com http://www.mp3.com/spaceanimals
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re: dream synths-was other synths
2002-07-25 by spaceanimals