Howdy Serge-people:
While I've been fascinated with these synths for a long long time, I've never touched one. Given a recent peek at the bank account, I'm thinking I may just go ahead and splurge on a panel.
Now, to be fair, I'm probably not the synth-savviest; there's a busted crumar ds-2 in my living room, and I have spent a good couple years (quite some years ago) front-panel programming an oberheim matrix6r and a yamaha tx802 (which is to say i'm well acquainted with frustration, but have no real modular experience). I've really been much more sample-oriented (mpc3k and a pair of s900s), and have actually returned (atop this all) to playing guitar.
Serge-wise, to say I'm fascinated by the TKB would be a vast understatement. Unfortunately, pairing it with say, an Animal panel... well... I'm not sure I can justify the expense at the moment. Plus I suspect the TKB would be somewhat underused in such a small system - but there's no way for me to really know without having spent some serious hours (days) with both.
So I'm leaning toward an M-boat loaded with a Creature and either sequencer A or an SQP. Would the SQP be underutilized in this setting? Keep in mind that I can certainly figure out how to convert some midi from the mpc into cv/gate (I hope that doesn't offend you guys), but at the same time I'd like to not be forced to. I kind of like the idea of dual sequencing (externally from the midibox and natively). I suspect the sequencer A may be more interesting in this regard. Again though, I'm sure I won't fully understand these funtions until I've messed with them for a while.
Sorry if that was longish, but what do you guys think?
While I've been fascinated with these synths for a long long time, I've never touched one. Given a recent peek at the bank account, I'm thinking I may just go ahead and splurge on a panel.
Now, to be fair, I'm probably not the synth-savviest; there's a busted crumar ds-2 in my living room, and I have spent a good couple years (quite some years ago) front-panel programming an oberheim matrix6r and a yamaha tx802 (which is to say i'm well acquainted with frustration, but have no real modular experience). I've really been much more sample-oriented (mpc3k and a pair of s900s), and have actually returned (atop this all) to playing guitar.
Serge-wise, to say I'm fascinated by the TKB would be a vast understatement. Unfortunately, pairing it with say, an Animal panel... well... I'm not sure I can justify the expense at the moment. Plus I suspect the TKB would be somewhat underused in such a small system - but there's no way for me to really know without having spent some serious hours (days) with both.
So I'm leaning toward an M-boat loaded with a Creature and either sequencer A or an SQP. Would the SQP be underutilized in this setting? Keep in mind that I can certainly figure out how to convert some midi from the mpc into cv/gate (I hope that doesn't offend you guys), but at the same time I'd like to not be forced to. I kind of like the idea of dual sequencing (externally from the midibox and natively). I suspect the sequencer A may be more interesting in this regard. Again though, I'm sure I won't fully understand these funtions until I've messed with them for a while.
Sorry if that was longish, but what do you guys think?