Am 29.07.2010 00:19, schrieb jabathaslut:
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Off hand I don't know who the switch manufacturer was. If you know the part number I can probably look it up.
Thx, but no idea. I don´t have a service manual and I mailed the 1st owner of my XK who is a tech himself and owns the SM,- but he reported it´s just only a simple schematic.
So, nothing informative inside.
I have a some Akai info, I'll see if I have what u are after.
That would be great, thx again !
I think in my case, I come from a time when a piece of kit cost an arm and a leg AND the choice of products available was far smaller than is available to ppl today.
Same here.
Today, it's so easy (and relatively cheap) to acquire gear that does so much.
Yes and no. It promises it does much, but in most cases it doesn´t that much and what it does it does w/ bugs.
We get more polyphony, more and better samples and better FX sections, but in modern hardware workstations as well as computer based gear, polyphony is at it´s limits soon by complexity and layering of patches to make it sound big, so you end up w/ the voice-limitations in realtime also.
Midi implementation of most todays gear is quite poor and OS and firmware often buggy.
That´s why I kept some of the old stuff,- lets say, a good assortment of the old stuff I already know well and which is limited in features but reliable.
That´s why I invest in reliability and not latest gear fashion.
Yes it's also true you can now produce really great stuff with nothing more than a PC and a bit of software.
I never said it´s really great,- I said the consumer of music is satisfied w/ the result,- a big difference.
I think the difference being that in the earlier years I found myself having to get quite "intimate knowledge" of each piece of kit I owned to get the sort of sounds I wanted.
Yep, and these were the times you got payed in the studio,- being a player and sound programmer, for your personal sound,- and as arranger/composer for your ideas and creativity.
Today I can think of a sound, load up a few softies and usually find a preset close to what I'm after. It's a case of moving with the times.
Different job today,- be everything and everyone in one person,- studio owner, producer, engineer, keyboardplayer, arranger, composer and lyrics writer,- big time pressure.
Do 7 jobs and get payed for (n)one.
So, I don´t wonder why people fire up their PC and take the presets of the softies to make a take in a hurry.
I know pros who sent a mp3 as a demo to the major (!) record company and they printed the mp3 on a CD for sale and sent the contract later,- no kidding.
They simply don´t hear the difference.
If you care on sound and do serious work, today, it´s just only for yourself,- but sometimes we do if we have the time.
I think a good example of the "moving with times" scenario for me is
Kraftwerk. I have seen their show a number of times over the years, the first, way back when klingklang was a few truck loads of racked
gear. Last time I saw them it was 4 guys with laptops and a few midi controllers. What was better? Neither they both sounded great.
O.k., but from the visual aspect of a concert, I´d prefer the truckload of gear to watch on stage.
4 stiff guys w/ laptops don´t look like real performers to me and I doubt the Kraftwerk guys can really play, they are more the "push start/stop" and "realtime knob tweaking" guys, but,- it sounded and sounds good, no question.
But if Lyle Mays played his grand piano, the Oberheim 4-voice and the Prophet 5, it sounded not only good but great and it is timeless.
There are more examples.
I guess I find it sad the gear that brought me so much joy over the years is slowly disappearing. As they say "such is life" =)
No, no,- it´s vintagesynthrepair here, so these won´t disappear so fast ... :-)