He did what,now ?LBN wrote:It looks like he's really whittled down his synth collection
Yeah,i've seen that list. I have 2 major OCDs. Kraftwerk and Vince Clarke. I thought the flood was in Splendid studio. The one in the Blackwing basement.LBN wrote:Here's a list of some of the stuff he was eBaying before moving to the U.S.:
http://failedmuso.blogspot.com/2007/11/ ... -sale.html
No mention of the PS 3300 in there. Apparently, some of the stuff had water damage from being stored in the basement of his sphere studio -- most famously, his Fairlight CMI.
notice how he doesn't have any VA hardware either....as VAs being software suffer from the same problems soundwise as softsynths.LBN wrote:http://www.vinceclarkemusic.com/
Not a ton of content on it right now but I imagine more will be added in the future. It has a list of his current gear in his new studio in Maine. It looks like he's really whittled down his synth collection although he still has some gems in there. No list of the softsynths though.
I think that has more to do with his reluctance to learn new gear than anything else. There's nothing on that list that is less than 10 years old. The JP8000 is the newest piece of gear (and a VA i might addolicana wrote: notice how he doesn't have any VA hardware either....
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I CM no. 136. There is an interview in which Clark tells that he has used "logic's softsynths on a lot of albums". Also Reaktor, Absynth and the moog modular V is praised.olicana wrote:notice how he doesn't have any VA hardware either....as VAs being software suffer from the same problems soundwise as softsynths.
Yeah but that was when he had all the goodies listed above in storage.Hskovlund wrote:I CM no. 136. There is an interview in which Clark tells that he has used "logic's softsynths on a lot of albums". Also Reaktor, Absynth and the moog modular V is praised.olicana wrote:notice how he doesn't have any VA hardware either....as VAs being software suffer from the same problems soundwise as softsynths.
a lot of albums? he aint realesed much in the softsynth era!Hskovlund wrote:I CM no. 136. There is an interview in which Clark tells that he has used "logic's softsynths on a lot of albums". Also Reaktor, Absynth and the moog modular V is praised.olicana wrote:notice how he doesn't have any VA hardware either....as VAs being software suffer from the same problems soundwise as softsynths.
what a load of bullshit. vince clarke conservative? loljupiter8 wrote:I think that has more to do with his reluctance to learn new gear than anything else. There's nothing on that list that is less than 10 years old. The JP8000 is the newest piece of gear (and a VA i might addolicana wrote: notice how he doesn't have any VA hardware either....
He knows the stuff he has inside out and there's little need for anything new with that rig. He's quite conservative gearwise as i understand it (understatement of the year)
he still got all is synths though?LBN wrote:Here's a list of some of the stuff he was eBaying before moving to the U.S.:
http://failedmuso.blogspot.com/2007/11/ ... -sale.html
No mention of the PS 3300 in there. Apparently, some of the stuff had water damage from being stored in the basement of his sphere studio -- most famously, his Fairlight CMI.
You never know Vince could of worked in a music store at one stage and probably one that closed down too? He used the BBC Micro for like 17 years. 10 of those he was the only user in the world who used thu UMI sequencer program. The programmer kept updating it for him only.olicana wrote: wehat a load of bullshit. vince clarke conservative? lol
He was selling a Behringer virtualizerjupiter8 wrote:
It's no big secret he's not fond of new things since he knows his old gear so well.
Iv got this tape from an old English mag where Vince is demonstrating that Fairlight computer of his. A steel string guitar track that sounded a bit like "lucy in the sky whit diamonds" done on the fairlight. Anybody been to the London Rock shop, is it still there? Tell that to CM magazine or Vince Clarke himself, I would not know really. I am just quoting CM and that is what it says. Here is the full quoteolicana wrote:a lot of albums? he aint realesed much in the softsynth era!
About the difference between old analogs and software Vince says (according to CM):CM136 p.84 wrote: VC: "We used a lot of Logic's soft synths on a lot of the albums', as they are more akin to analogue synthesizers. It's not necessarily the sound, but the way you control them and obtain patches."
There is nothing in the article that suggests that he should decline VAs in general as you suggested. Also with his JP8000 in mind, it seems you are on an unfounded track here. It must be your own reasons that you confuse with Clark's.CM136 p.84 wrote: VC: "I think that analogue has an inherent sound to it -it's like the old argument over vinyl versus CD. It seems that you hear more frequencies coming from an old analogue synth than you do from a software synth, but the great thing about the latter is that you can do far more complex modulation, both within the synth itself and on the keyboard"
Yes and in CM mag Vince says that he probably will use analogs again on his next album, but that does not mean he does it for the reasons that you suggests! There is no trace of such explanation! It is pure guessworkolicana wrote: i know he was makin his own ensembles in reaktor and had fun with it...and other softsynths but in the end he still falls back on his analogs.
even martin gore when softsynths came out was prasing synths like the mercury vsti and oddity etc....but in the end for his new album (sounds of the universe) he went back full on analog synths.
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