Well, the Serge is a very flexible system with many different strange
modules... and some ordinary ones too.
Patching with stackable banana plugs is very fun, opens a lot of
possibilities.
Trigger, audio, and control signals are pretty easily mixed/interchanged.
The VCFQ can be used as a filter, quadrature oscillator, source for
percussion sounds or extremely slow damped oscillations.
The wave multiplier is a really nice set of audio harmonic manipulators.
The sequencers come in a great variety and can easily be run to audio
frequencies.
The DSG/DTG is extremely strange and useful: audio oscillator, VC LFO,
envelope generator that delivers linear, log, and exponential slopes, slew
limiter with independent rise/fall, audio filter, pulse divider, trigger
delay, envelope detector.... it has insanely wide range, from several hours
per cycle to ~ 3 khz.
Rumor has it the oscillators can be pushed to over 1 Mhz, in case you ever
need to do an impromptu ultrasound on a pregnant woman in the audience...
The NCOM does variable pulse division by 1 thru 32 by turning a knob or under
voltage control. The Pulse Divider has several (7?) simultaneous division
outputs.... most other makes just give you division by powers-of-two if you
get any pulse division capability at all.
Man, I don't want to get rooked into a 'no other synth does this' discussion
because there is a lot of capability overlap between makes... and a lot of
flattery-by-imitation too.... someone will always say, well, the Trautonium
did such-and-such, or the RCA Mark II did this-and-that, and the Serge won't
do that....
The Serge is a demanding & rewarding system for lunatics willing to put up
the money & put up with Rex's uneven schedule. Not for people who want easy
touch-of-a-button synth effects, who don't want to get involved in a risky,
potentially time-consuming, thoughtful, creative process.
The $1500 TKB is one module, the touch keyboard sequencer. Most systems have
at least one.
The well-deserved wiseass comment about MOTM being conservative is a flip
opinion on the module lineup: oscillator, VCA, ring mod, ADSR, couple
filters. Now they have a multiple panel & a mixer. A pulse divider/pulse
mixer (XOR?) is about as wild as they get. Designed & built solid & clean,
available as kits.
Cheers & Good Luck
John P.
derrick espino wrote:
modules... and some ordinary ones too.
Patching with stackable banana plugs is very fun, opens a lot of
possibilities.
Trigger, audio, and control signals are pretty easily mixed/interchanged.
The VCFQ can be used as a filter, quadrature oscillator, source for
percussion sounds or extremely slow damped oscillations.
The wave multiplier is a really nice set of audio harmonic manipulators.
The sequencers come in a great variety and can easily be run to audio
frequencies.
The DSG/DTG is extremely strange and useful: audio oscillator, VC LFO,
envelope generator that delivers linear, log, and exponential slopes, slew
limiter with independent rise/fall, audio filter, pulse divider, trigger
delay, envelope detector.... it has insanely wide range, from several hours
per cycle to ~ 3 khz.
Rumor has it the oscillators can be pushed to over 1 Mhz, in case you ever
need to do an impromptu ultrasound on a pregnant woman in the audience...
The NCOM does variable pulse division by 1 thru 32 by turning a knob or under
voltage control. The Pulse Divider has several (7?) simultaneous division
outputs.... most other makes just give you division by powers-of-two if you
get any pulse division capability at all.
Man, I don't want to get rooked into a 'no other synth does this' discussion
because there is a lot of capability overlap between makes... and a lot of
flattery-by-imitation too.... someone will always say, well, the Trautonium
did such-and-such, or the RCA Mark II did this-and-that, and the Serge won't
do that....
The Serge is a demanding & rewarding system for lunatics willing to put up
the money & put up with Rex's uneven schedule. Not for people who want easy
touch-of-a-button synth effects, who don't want to get involved in a risky,
potentially time-consuming, thoughtful, creative process.
The $1500 TKB is one module, the touch keyboard sequencer. Most systems have
at least one.
The well-deserved wiseass comment about MOTM being conservative is a flip
opinion on the module lineup: oscillator, VCA, ring mod, ADSR, couple
filters. Now they have a multiple panel & a mixer. A pulse divider/pulse
mixer (XOR?) is about as wild as they get. Designed & built solid & clean,
available as kits.
Cheers & Good Luck
John P.
derrick espino wrote:
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> YOu say the MOTMs are conservative. Do the Serge Modules do "crazy" stuff
> that no other synth does? You say that the cheapest panel is about 1500,
> what modules are in it? D ESPINO
>
> ---- John Papiewski <johnp@...> wrote:
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