On 03/11/2012 07:56 AM, James Stone wrote:
On Mar 11, 2012 12:19 AM, "Jostein Chr. Andersen" <jostein@xxxxxxx <mailto:jostein@xxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Reply to All / Reply to List > On Sunday 11 March 2012 00.26.25 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I realize that nothing is like the real thing, but hope that i can > > > find something that's close enough, or even better. > > > > Google for survival kits and CEM/Curtis chips. If you just wish to get > > the sounds characteristics of some vintage synth and you should be > > willing to use Apple or Microsoft, than you'll find some proprietary > > soft synth there. I dunno if they will do something similar to the > > sound you need from the JX-8P. If you need the full CEM sound quality, > > than you definitively get stuck. > > To late for my JX. First, every 8th (or was it 12th?) keys was stopping > to produce sound (but they still sended MIDI signals), so I was able to > use it as a MIDI controller (one of the best keyboards I ever used) and > use another MIDI controller for triggering the jx-sounds. Then I could > not do program changes, and then it stopped to make sounds - all this > within two weeks. > > It does exist some Juno SW synths for MS Windows and Mac, but I won't use > it. I'm usually pragmatic and do use both Mac and Windows for work (Linux > is still main OS there also), but here, I run native Linux on everything > and don't want to run another OS in my studio. > > > Better? If you expect something completely new, than yes, you might > > find something better, but if you expect something that sounds like > > vintage synth, than all soft synth are less good, far away from the > > originals. > > Well, I think I might try to get a new one again but also consider to see > if I can make amSynt or even take my time to learn Yoshimi and see if it > can do the job. > Have you tried Whysynth? It's pretty nice and somewhat underused. James
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