Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

�>I've had a lot of good gear recently - is it my perception or is stuff

>getting better generally?

>Paul

My thoughts exactly. I like synths (an understatement) and although when I was young, just about anything over a grand was almost too expensive for me to do more than just dream about. These days, nearly 20 years later, things are quite different financially. So I have quite a, er, group of synths, but�do not want to be a collector of any synth just for the synth of it,�so bought�most used, and always with an eye to quality and some distinguishing quality/characteristics and a great deal. Over the years it adds up! minimoog, pulse, MW1, wavestation, k5000, fs1r, jp8080, uQk, mc505, XL7, ASR-X, ( I always liked grooveboxes) Fizmo,�Notron�and PC88 about sums it up. Oh yeah! 2 Evolvers! Most of the time I have been able to identify "special" instruments and�wait for the bargains, and then�pounce�and not be taken by anything just because it was new or latest greatest, etc. These days, I try to enforce the "if anything comes in, something must go" rule. But lately, the stuff that is recently out, and is coming out, seems to be mostly top drawer and it is causing me to have to reset my gear acquisition rules to not only look mainly to quality because I don't really want too much overlap in the sound department.�I.e. the novation stuff and perhaps the new V-Synth by Roland are all good stuff.

For example, I could live without anything by novation, but right now I have a chance to get a pretty good deal on a 24 voice SupernovaII keyboard (about a $1000) and it is compelling to me because of all the great reviews, tons of knobs,�etc. But then there's the new K4, K5 which you Paul gave top marks to as well. And then again I already have the jp8080 (sure the uQk is a VA but waldorf sounds enough like itself to take it out of the standard VA category, plus the small keyboard has its uses for me too, especially live).

Any advice on the SNII? All this good quality relatively inexpensive stuff out these days is�fun! :)

Ravi

>From: Paul Nagle >Reply-To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com >To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com >Subject: Re: [Evolver] SOS Evolver review >Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 09:08:21 +0000 > >On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:13:06 -0000, "Ravi Ivan Sharma >" wrote: > > >The biggest most bitter complaint was with not the Evolver but the UK > >duty and VAT. Oh well, there must be something good about living in > >UK though . . :) > >I'd love to know what it is. I'm planning to leave and move to >somewhere that *wants* to be part of Europe.... > >As for cons - I could only think of "lack of a headphone socket", and >the typical ones about the matrix and display - all of which we know >the reasons for already. > >I've had a lot of good gear recently - is it my perception or is stuff >getting better generally? > >Paul