SergeModular

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:27 AM, b3nnysf <b3nnysf@...> wrote:

Hi,

I'm at a similar point, In that I really am longing for the TKB... and have thought a bunch about the SKP... Well, to be honest I've been dreaming of two SKP's in one m-boat... or even 1 SKP and one CV matrix mixer... anyways.

Serge land is easily conquered by the midi cv gate converter, its a snap to hook up the grounding kit (one wire) to the doepfer MCV4, from there, notes track perfectly (with NTO, PCO) and mod wheel can be anything you choose-- filter cutoff, wave multiplyer, LFO speed...

If I may extrapolate from what you posted, I think the Mpc3000 would be lovely with a dual osc and creature and midi-cv converter. Why not the SKP? well because you really want the TKB (like me) and you should stick with that. The dual osc will track notes correctly with the midi-cv and it has a CV mixer witch is very useful for subtle modulation and feedback loops. It also has the ÷N which is good for "beats" and other weird patches...The creature is extremely powerful because it packs the most bang for the buck in the m-class, being both normal and completely strange...

Then buy the TKB and you'll be ruling with a 16 step with 4 voltages OR a 64 step sequencer 1 voltage sequencer!!

that's my take on it.

later,
ben
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--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, "tbby_t" <tbby_t@...> wrote:
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> Howdy Serge-people:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Sorry if that was longish, but what do you guys think?
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