KVR Audio

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:56 pm

Funny, I never noticed that. Time for me to get a life.

clueless · Post by **clueless** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:57 pm

oops, too late.

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:11 pm

Ouch!

LOL!

scobbah · Post by **scobbah** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:29 pm

I second those in praise of MS2000. I bought the rack version a few months ago and I do not regret it. I make psytrance and I have so far found the synth to be very versatile and fun to tweak.

clueless · Post by **clueless** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:45 pm

I don't doubt it, but...for £200??

Shy · Post by **Shy** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 2:43 am

clueless: nope, it's really not down to the programming. As I said, it takes very much work to get actual fat sounding stuff from this synth. You don't have to believe me

, work with one yourself and even after very much experimentation you'll reach the same conclusion.
A while ago I made a thread with some samples asking people to guess if it's a hardware of software synth, and analog or digital. Some interesting results and comments. Here are all the samples from that thread (in Musepack format). The digitalish "quick melody demo" uses internal chorus, eq, delay and reverb effects, and the 'fm' sample uses chorus and reverb. The others have no effect whatsoever applied to them. You won't get any more "analogish" than the 'patch' sample without using its eq and chorus.

Tronam · Post by **Tronam** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:06 pm

The MS2000 is very intuitive and surprisingly flexible. Highly recommended as a first time hardware synthesizer. The only gripe that most people have with it is the limited polyphony, but you can work around that by bouncing down tracks or buying more than one and chaining them together, interleaving their voices and effectively doubling them. It was my very first "real" synthesizer and I learned a great deal about programming with it. It was one of the best investments I had made at the time. It has enough flexibility through its routing and modulation flexibility to create a pretty wide variety of interesting sounds. To give you an example, here is a little patch demo of various sounds I've created, recorded raw from the MS2000:

MS2000R Patch Examples (All are original except for the sound at 3:05 - 3:36, which is a factory preset)

A few years ago I also decided to put together a song using only the MS2000R and a Korg ER-1 (just for the percussion elements). I am only an amateur and the mix is not particularly good, but it was a lot of fun to create a bank of sounds and try to produce a song with them using a more minimal setup like this. The MS2000R is using its built-in effects and I only added a tiny bit of global reverb to help it blend with the very dry ER-1:

Emergence (Using original MS2000R sounds. Korg ER-1 is used only for kick, hi-hats and rimshot sound)

Cheers

~ Tronam

musikmachine · Post by **musikmachine** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:36 pm

I was just watching this vid

http://insidesynthesis.blogspot.com/

I the microkorg but hated the keys and i was a pita to program so i didn't get the best out of it,ended up selling it and a member of kaiser chiefs bought it!

Kinda wish i'd kept it but i should've got the rack in the first place.After seeing this i think i'll get one,shame you can't use the vocoder at the same time though

So I gotta get a hardware synth, but a cheap one!