EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, at 02:41 PM, Martin, Jeremy wrote:
> 
>> This is definitely getting OT, but with all of the various Gurus that
>> inhabit this list with access to tons of gear, this is probably the best
>> place to ask this question: With all of the software synths out there
>> these
>> days, what types of hardware synths are still worth buying? E.g. what
>> hardware synths don't have an equal-or-superior software emulation?
>> Specifically I would like to create very 'alien' sounding sounds. Not
>> harsh
>> metal-scraping-ear-blistering 'alien' sounds.. nice cute little friendly
>> alien sounds, e.g. those found in a lot of of Aphex Twin songs. :-)

I don't think I'll let go of my Kawai K5000 or my Prophet 5.

I've never heard a softsynth do K5000 textures. Maybe Absynth or Reaktor
might????

As for the Prophet, the soft version (Native instruments) doesn't come
close.

I've still got my ASR10 sampler for 2 reasons. I have a big library which I
guess I'll eventually convert to EXS using Translator for Mac (Is it out
yet?) and the other reason is that the ASR's Effect algorithms are excellent
and nothing else comes close to some of those sounds....

I've still got my Yamaha RM50 mainly because it has good audio to midi
triggers.


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Paul Najar
Jaminajar Music Production
http://www.jaminajar.com.au