KVR Audio

ugo · Post by **ugo** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:14 pm

blackboyrockinit wrote:amazing sounds, I'm going convince my boss to buy one of these things for our studio.

If you get one, don't forget to track down the SoundDiver editor. There is a FIZMO-only OEM version that you can download at the Yahoo Fiz group. The editor allows access to many paramters that cannot be reached directly from the synth's control panel.

blackboyrockinit · Post by **blackboyrockinit** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:19 pm

nice. you think soundquest would work too?

ugo · Post by **ugo** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:35 pm

I just took a look at their site and unfortunately the Fiz is not on their list of supported Ensoniq or E-MU products.

mckenic · Post by **mckenic** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:20 pm

Hey Ugo!

Yep - most of my stuff is from thr Yahoo group... but I'll PM you a list of what I have just in case

Are the SoundEngine sounds worth the money? They do a Fs1r set too so I might pick em both up

Dave

ugo · Post by **ugo** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:37 pm

If I remember correctly, I have only tried SoundEngine's FIZMO set. I did a review of it for my old FIZMO Users Group site in 2001.

How useful it is depends on what you are looking for. It is very much a bread and butter set, so it is for people who need something tame and general purpose out of the synth, rather than providing wild stuff that pushes the FIZMO's more experimental boundaries. I have not listed to the presets in many years, but I was pretty impressed by it at the time. (Admittedly, that was a long time ago so my opinions could be somewhat different now, or maybe they'd still be the same.)

Here's is a PDF of my old review.
fizmo-world1-review.pdf

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:46 pm

ugo wrote:...How useful it is depends on what you are looking for. It is very much a bread and butter set, so it is for people who need something tame and general purpose out of the synth...

What's the point of that?

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:12 pm

ugo wrote:...finally make an demo mp3 of my old Fiz presets...

Awesome. They're so like what I was into back in the late 80s, early 90s.

ugo · Post by **ugo** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:13 am

In case anyone is interested, I've uploaded all the old info that was at the Fiz site I built many, many years ago (which had been offline for years). Since I am perpetually busy with other projects I had neither the time nor the inclination to build a proper new site so I just modified the layout to my equally ancient, outdated, and somewhat ugly Korg N site and dropped the content into there. Kind of a sloppy way to go about it, but at least the content is back online again.

http://www.ugoaudio.com/fizmo

MarsHottentot · Post by **MarsHottentot** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:07 am

Wow.
I was expecting something truly ugly (like SO MANY old synth sites - especially the digital synth sites). That's not bad at all. And even if it were, the info is much appreciated. Thanks UGO.

mckenic · Post by **mckenic** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:11 am

THANK YOU!

This is a really great resource Ugo, thanks a million for putting it up again! LOTS of info I'd not seen before!

Love the site design too!

Thanks mate!

Dave

ugo · Post by **ugo** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:35 pm

Glad you like it.

rlahalla · Post by **rlahalla** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:27 pm

I really like that site design ugo.

Ensoniq Fizmo