Diva - classic synths that deserve emulating?

[pdxindy]

For coherent raw bass sounds I'll also take Bazille...

[ho66it]

I'll add another vote for Yamaha CS-15. It was my first synth and I wish that I still had it!

[grandmasterbird]

@ the original poster- I'd choose a Roland System 100 and an Arp Odyssey..... I think Diva has convinced me that the day will come where software will sound indistinguishable to hardware, it's just a matter of time

[lung]

800dv

Yes please! That filter is the sweetest thing ever ( at least the one on my 700 is).

Yes it is.

Korg traveler filter would be amazing, as well as the wonderful SEM filter. I also really like the Cwejman filters, but to me ACE does Cwejman-type sounds close enough that I don't lust as much for the expensive hardware. I can't disagree with the System 100 suggestion.

Although Cwejman sounds great, my current favourite is the EML-101 (along with the 200 expander), which has that 50's EMS Synthi sound to it. Like ACE, it doesn't distinguish between voltage and audio paths. It's built with military spec components (ex-rocket engineers), and used op-amps instead of transistors, so it sounds different than the others - great sci-fi/Radiophonic character.

The CS40m is another very unique and massive sounding dinosaur (great sounding VCO's, wet filter, has that incredible sounding Yamaha ring mod generator - which unfortunately doesn't track), huge bass when subosc is mixed into the VCA. It has that Dr. Who sound (and I think from a documentary I saw that the CS-40m was used for that very song). I wonder if the CS80 can sound like a CS40m.

I'd love to be convinced enough that I could sell them if necessary (they are quite large).

I lucked-out as the MS20, Mini, Jupiter-8 are all favourites, but I don't own the hardware.

A u-he synth that had the sound of old tube test oscillators, RCA modular, Raymond Scott, Radiophonic type sounds. I like what Hollow Sun has done with these Kontakt instruments http://www.hollowsun.com/HS2/sli/index.htm.

No one has emulated Hugh LeCaine's Electronic Sackbuthttp://www.hughlecaine.com/sounds/sackbut.mp3 - the first voltage controlled synthesizer. Very expressive sounds - I'm sure the control interface of pressure sensitive touchpads with 2D touchpad continuous waveform control helps. It's housed at the Canada Science & Technology Museum in Ottawa, Canada. More info/sounds/movies here.

[fmr]

800dv

Yes please! That filter is the sweetest thing ever ( at least the one on my 700 is).

Yes it is.

Korg traveler filter would be amazing, as well as the wonderful SEM filter. I also really like the Cwejman filters, but to me ACE does Cwejman-type sounds close enough that I don't lust as much for the expensive hardware. I can't disagree with the System 100 suggestion.

Although Cwejman sounds great, my current favourite is the EML-101 (along with the 200 expander), which has that 50's EMS Synthi sound to it. Like ACE, it doesn't distinguish between voltage and audio paths. It's built with military spec components (ex-rocket engineers), and used op-amps instead of transistors, so it sounds different than the others - great sci-fi/Radiophonic character.

The CS40m is another very unique and massive sounding dinosaur (great sounding VCO's, wet filter, has that incredible sounding Yamaha ring mod generator - which unfortunately doesn't track), huge bass when subosc is mixed into the VCA. It has that Dr. Who sound (and I think from a documentary I saw that the CS-40m was used for that very song). I wonder if the CS80 can sound like a CS40m.

I'd love to be convinced enough that I could sell them if necessary (they are quite large).

I lucked-out as the MS20, Mini, Jupiter-8 are all favourites, but I don't own the hardware.

A u-he synth that had the sound of old tube test oscillators, RCA modular, Raymond Scott, Radiophonic type sounds. I like what Hollow Sun has done with these Kontakt instruments http://www.hollowsun.com/HS2/sli/index.htm.

No one has emulated Hugh LeCaine's Electronic Sackbuthttp://www.hughlecaine.com/sounds/sackbut.mp3 - the first voltage controlled synthesizer. Very expressive sounds - I'm sure the control interface of pressure sensitive touchpads with 2D touchpad continuous waveform control helps. It's housed at the Canada Science & Technology Museum in Ottawa, Canada. More info/sounds/movies here.

Isn't the CS40 just half of the CS80? Or do they have different components?

If we are cutting things in halves, then may I request an Oberheim Xpander?

I wouldn't mind to have a CS40, though.