Doepfer

Hé Synthfreak,

I'm not going to say told you so. But, cause I didn't know any other synths with orange lights, immediately when I turned the power on, I saw those fascinating orange lights. Everytime I switch on my machine, I'll stare at the those ultra brigth orange lights. I'm real proud there are orange. 
Have you see that Doepfer has made a blue series, yes real blue lights! Not the Doepfer, but the Maq 16/3, Regelwerk and Schaltwerk! Looks really cool. The Selector from Switserland has also blue lights. In fact blue and green. I think the Selector looks really cool (of course when you have a big one, like Bernd Kistenmacher has), with that black-dark blue tiger motiv and then those yello patchcords, which really contrasts with the other colours. If I had the money, the Selector would certainly be an option! 
But I have my Doepfer and I'm really satisfied with it. 
Talking about something else, I hear you have the Mono/poly. I lingered a while buy one, but since I have the MS20 I thought, it would be pointless to have a machine with almost the same options. I know the Mono/poly has some great tricks on it's sleeve. 
I never forget 1989, the second klem day (festival in The Netherlands which brought live em from 1988. Sadly, it doesn't exist anymore! But on that second edition I sad on the front row and before me sat Bernd behind his Monopoly, beside others. Further behind impressive walls of modular (Roland 100m). Bernd makes Schulze-esque cosmic electronic, although I has style of his own. The came these vast, thick deep synth soudns, layer upon layer. And he than in trance played over it a slow evolving solo on the Monopoly. Huge bass sound! It was so impressive to see his face so upclose, totally sunken in the music! 
Now comes the odd thing and a question for you. I've heard many people saying that the bass of a Monopoly is Korg like thin. That's strange, cause the sound as I said sounded huge!!!! Meaby he had driven through layers of effects to get it like this, but I don't believe that, cause it sound real pure, not drowned in effect. Very upfront. What's your oppinion Synthfreak on the power of the Monopoly and what other things do you do with it?
By the way I don't have a A112. I think that module is too fancy for me. I don't need the sample in it, the wavetable osc could be interesting, but I haven't planned in a future expansion. 

Roel.


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hi roel,
one word for the mono/poly:EXCELLENT!!!
i use it on every track!i mainly use it for wierd
cross mod,sync sounds as it has 4 vco's and the
combinations/possibilities are many and the sound is
huge!!the bass seems to me very fat...in fact i would
say that it has a better sound than the arp
odyssey(but i like both...).and make no mistake:the
ms10/ms20 synths sound different from a
mono/poly!that's why i want an ms20 despite the fact
that i have a mono/poly.i really love my monopoly!!!of
all my vintage synths it's my favourite and looks much
better that the more expensive odyssey...
as for the selector...who wouldn't want a big system??
but then again i think:for the same money i could
build a monster doepfer a100 system...
so,here's what i will do:first i will build a HUGE
a100 system(much more than 100 modules...).then if and
when i have the money i will go for a selector system
(that,i must admit,it has a very small selection of
modules...despite the name...)
as for the a112: i can not resist the possibility of
changing the sample rate in real time...that's why i
want it!
and who is that bernd kistenmacher???i haven't seen
any cd's of him in greece...
synthfreak(parallel worlds)
athens-greece

--- Roel Steverink <roel.steverink@12move.nl> wrote:
> H� Synthfreak,
> 
> I'm not going to say told you so. But, cause I
> didn't know any other synths with orange lights,
> immediately when I turned the power on, I saw those
> fascinating orange lights. Everytime I switch on my
> machine, I'll stare at the those ultra brigth orange
> lights. I'm real proud there are orange. 
> Have you see that Doepfer has made a blue series,
> yes real blue lights! Not the Doepfer, but the Maq
> 16/3, Regelwerk and Schaltwerk! Looks really cool.
> The Selector from Switserland has also blue lights.
> In fact blue and green. I think the Selector looks
> really cool (of course when you have a big one, like
> Bernd Kistenmacher has), with that black-dark blue
> tiger motiv and then those yello patchcords, which
> really contrasts with the other colours. If I had
> the money, the Selector would certainly be an
> option! 
> But I have my Doepfer and I'm really satisfied with
> it. 
> Talking about something else, I hear you have the
> Mono/poly. I lingered a while buy one, but since I
> have the MS20 I thought, it would be pointless to
> have a machine with almost the same options. I know
> the Mono/poly has some great tricks on it's sleeve. 
> I never forget 1989, the second klem day (festival
> in The Netherlands which brought live em from 1988.
> Sadly, it doesn't exist anymore! But on that second
> edition I sad on the front row and before me sat
> Bernd behind his Monopoly, beside others. Further
> behind impressive walls of modular (Roland 100m).
> Bernd makes Schulze-esque cosmic electronic,
> although I has style of his own. The came these
> vast, thick deep synth soudns, layer upon layer. And
> he than in trance played over it a slow evolving
> solo on the Monopoly. Huge bass sound! It was so
> impressive to see his face so upclose, totally
> sunken in the music! 
> Now comes the odd thing and a question for you. I've
> heard many people saying that the bass of a Monopoly
> is Korg like thin. That's strange, cause the sound
> as I said sounded huge!!!! Meaby he had driven
> through layers of effects to get it like this, but I
> don't believe that, cause it sound real pure, not
> drowned in effect. Very upfront. What's your
> oppinion Synthfreak on the power of the Monopoly and
> what other things do you do with it?
> By the way I don't have a A112. I think that module
> is too fancy for me. I don't need the sample in it,
> the wavetable osc could be interesting, but I
> haven't planned in a future expansion. 
> 
> Roel.
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
> 
> 


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