Arturia SQ80v and Ensoniq’s Revenge 🧻🧻🧻
Of course I’m going to give a great review to an emulation of something I’ve loved for years. Or am I? First was the Ensoniq Mirage rack. 8 bit samples,…
Tag: virtual analogue
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HydraSynth 🧻🧻🧻💩
2024 update. Hey look they include stickers in the box! I haven’t seen that since the early 80s. It looks like a Roland Jupiter 8 bonked a Nord, it works…
Access Virus TI 🧻🧻🧻🧻
Sold by weight Long have I wanted to know the answer to this ageless question: why are Access Virus synthesisers so fucking expensive? I found that the answer is really…
Novation Supernova 2 🧻🧻🧻
The MiniNova is a wonder to be heard, but mine has slowly fallen apart from just one show and I’d recently thought about taking a hacksaw to rack it. Then…
Novation UltraNova and MiniNova 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻
Want a real review? Look at this. We are poor sinners crawling upon the face of the Earth. We are weak and mortal. There is no shame in admitting that…
Nord Modular G2 🧻🧻
Well that sure fixed my little red wagon This was one of the first items that I wished to collect – although not a wonky 90’s rack as such, it’s…
Arturia Origin Desktop 🧻🧻🧻
Prelude The number of times I have seen this thing, and thought maybe/ no/ maybe/ no/ maybe/ NO DAMN YOU is appalling. Appalling! “It’s just Arturia’s software synthesisers in a…
E-Mu UltraProteus 🧻🧻🧻🧻
E-Mu started life in early 70’s Santa Cruz making modular synthesisers. They weren’t always good (the first one was ceremoniously thrown out a window) but included technology (like the polyphonic…
Ensoniq MR Rack 🧻🧻 (and Fizmo)
Mister Rack: Father of FIZMO The legend goes like this – in its death throes, Ensoniq, once proud innovator of SID chips, ASRs and Transwaves, gave one last heave. They…
Alesis Micron and Ion 🧻🧻🧻
Alesis Micron: finally quit smoking The Ion arrived five years after the main Japanese virtual analogues. Boasting millennial processing power, it reached 8 voices each with three oscillators compared to…