Last Saturday 16 October 2004 04:17, Austin was like: > Without buying an old Moog, what are my options, and what do you > suggest... looking for cheap, and flawless on-stage? I really don't know about flawless. Moogs use proper oscillators all digital sounds are effectively samples. There does seem to be a limit. > Ideas: > 1. ?Look for a cheap used MIDI sound module with great portamento. ?I've > never seen one. Me neither. Korg MS2000 has a module version, probably about the closest. > 2. ?Alsa Modular Synth. ?I really like the portamento effect, but I've > yet to find any great moog sounds, and I'm not good at making my own. > It's quite stable, but gives me "clicky" artifacts sometimes. I think probably the best. A lot of the clicks are caused by agressive attack stages on the envelope generators, back them off a tad and the click goes. The art of those Moog sounds was really twiddling about with the knobs, trying to find a preset is often hard work. I'm a particular fan of resonant filter sweeps. Any preset you might find is guaranteed to be naff. > 3. ?ZynAddSubFX. ?Has some great synth sounds, but the portamento is too > "over the top". ?Over dramatic. Ah. ZynAddSubFX is beautiful, transparent and probably the wrong place to look. Dunno about VST For raw instant gratification, try amsynth. It's a one-stop two osc polyphonic [!] with knobs on. It's rough as you like, but if this is a rock band, you may like. The other option would be a working version of Bristol (sadly, I've never seen one). A Pd patch would probably be fairly straightforward too, but as you say you're not a sound designer this may not be an option. So, pure GNU solutions boil down to amsynth, for rough & ready; ALSA Modular synth if you're prepared to create your own patch. Failing all that, I'd borrow an MS10 or SH101 from somewhere. cheers tim hall
