2024: A Year in Gear (What You've Bought or Want to Buy in 2024)

[McLilith]

So, Yamaha is the new Behringer? I’m ok with that.

Well they did have those little minikey Reface devices so it’s not completely out of their wheelhouse just odd how it arrived fully formed with no preamble.

Yeah, if Yamaha wants to be the new Behringer, they'll have to start teasing all their new gear releases at least 2 years before the unit arrives in most stores!

[McLilith]

AWM is just Yamaha marketing speak for sampling.

https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/c ... index.html

They called their combination of AWM with FM and filters "real time convolution modulation, "or RCM. The 80s and 90s were all about inventing clever acronyms to a naïve digital world, LA synthesis, VAST, AWM, etc.

RCM is a distinctly different technique than what had been used before. It wasn't simply playing a PCM sample while an FM synth sound played simultaneously. That would just be layering or mixing of two different synth engines. They used the PCM sample to frequency modulate the FM operators. That hadn't been done before, and it was fair game to give it a unique name.

That said, if you looked at the patches on a typical Yamaha SY77, TG77, or SY99, many of them did combine PCM samples and FM synthesis in a simple layered approach. The number of actual RCM patches was relatively small by comparison. I think that might have confused some folks into thinking RCM was just a simple layering of PCM samples over FM synth sounds.

[McLilith]

So I didn’t have Yamaha releasing some kind of TE OP-Z style groovebox on my 2024 bingo card…

Pushing out a highly AWM preset-centric product now just seems a spectacularly odd move. I would love to know if they do any market research.

That does look kind of cool. A great thing for your mate to buy, so you can play with it then give it back.

Not sure what you mean about AWM though.

ambient wank machine maybe?

I knew a drummer who swore these were low-key invented for that purpose.



He used to tell me about feeling a certain "temptation" every time he dried his hands with one at a local restaurant.

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[ghettosynth]

AWM is just Yamaha marketing speak for sampling.

https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/c ... index.html

They called their combination of AWM with FM and filters "real time convolution modulation, "or RCM. The 80s and 90s were all about inventing clever acronyms to a naïve digital world, LA synthesis, VAST, AWM, etc.

RCM is a distinctly different technique than what had been used before. It wasn't simply playing a PCM sample while an FM synth sound played simultaneously.

Which is obvious from the diagram and the link that I provided as well as the context.

[McLilith]

AWM is just Yamaha marketing speak for sampling.

https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/c ... index.html

They called their combination of AWM with FM and filters "real time convolution modulation, "or RCM. The 80s and 90s were all about inventing clever acronyms to a naïve digital world, LA synthesis, VAST, AWM, etc.

RCM is a distinctly different technique than what had been used before. It wasn't simply playing a PCM sample while an FM synth sound played simultaneously.

Which is obvious from the diagram and the link that I provided as well as the context.

Ok, but when you said this:

The 80s and 90s were all about inventing clever acronyms to a naïve digital world, LA synthesis, VAST, AWM, etc.

It gave me the impression you thought RCM was just some gibberish marketing acronym. I've seen lots of companies engage in that practice, but RCM never seemed to be in that category to me.

[D-Fusion]

Oh. Crap
I said Earlier in this thread that i have all i need but I am now waiting for a Behringer Model D To arrive

[foosnark]

Noise Engineering just released Ataraxic Iteritas Alia, Cursus Iteritas Alia and a new one, Incus Iteritas Alia. Really I was just waiting for Cursus so this was an instant buy.

Now to actually check out the demos.

[McLilith]

Oh. Crap
I said Earlier in this thread that i have all i need but I am now waiting for a Behringer Model D To arrive

That illustrates the difference between having all you need and having all you want.

[D-Fusion]

Oh. Crap
I said Earlier in this thread that i have all i need but I am now waiting for a Behringer Model D To arrive

That illustrates the difference between having all you need and having all you want.

Seems to always be like this when it Comes to HW and there is no escape

[kritikon]

This looks to be 70, but I might be wrong. Of course, not actually confirmed yet, but, this would be tits with the Cat and Wasp together.

Now that's a left-field suggestion that just might run. I've never got into sequencers much, but now I think of it - so many of the Behringers now have CV /gate ins etc that that might be a really good idea. Can't remember off the top of my head (haven't touched it in quite a while) but don't the TD3s have CV in/out as well? I could sequencerize a 303 without that fukn godawful abomination one that comes with it.

[WatchTheGuitar]

Can't remember off the top of my head (haven't touched it in quite a while) but don't the TD3s have CV in/out as well? I could sequencerize a 303 without that fukn godawful abomination one that comes with it.

Only the Modded Out versions which is why I now have one of those and the original TD-3. I’ve been sequencing the MO version from Bidoo sequencer modules in VCV Rack that have slide, works great.

[kritikon]

Oh bugger! I suppose I could get a MO, but don't think it'll be high on my list. Although...I haven't got anything proper acid yellow yet, so maybe a yellow MO (only to brighten the place up y'know). My TD3 is blue, so put that with a yellow MO and if I drink enough rum, next to each other would make a blurry green acid machine.

[WatchTheGuitar]

I have a yellow MO and a red OG TD-3, when I use them together it reminds me of the “Rhubarb and Custard” penny sweets I used to get from the corner shop.

[cryophonik]

I have the boring-ass silver MO and deeply regret not getting the yellow one.

[kritikon]

Acid & yellow. Has to be together.
You could put a load of the Behringer yellow smiley stickers all over your MO to make it look proper...I think I have some spare lying around and we could all club together maybe? I must admit I like the look of the black TD3s. Normally I detest anything in boring black (not that we get much of a choice usually).