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

[mek42]

I'm planning to get an Osmose in December. It will be my first hardware synth.

[elxsound]

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would have liked a power adapter instead of batteries, but pretty good fun so far

now just waiting on the chromaplane and bruxa and im done for the year! (probably)

How does it hold up to your other theramin?

I still want one of these, but I’m done with new buys for the year. I’m just waiting on Bruxa at this point.

[vurt]

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would have liked a power adapter instead of batteries, but pretty good fun so far

now just waiting on the chromaplane and bruxa and im done for the year! (probably)

How does it hold up to your other theramin?

I still want one of these, but I’m done with new buys for the year. I’m just waiting on Bruxa at this point.

its not as hard to play as a real theremin
you need both hands for pitch and volume there, here its one antenna, so one handed. other than that, its a sin wav, not much can go wrong

this does have the additional drone/vibrato which can also be triggered with the button!! with a decent envelope for longer release or short hits on the drone.
the delay is nice but gets dirty, which i like, but not to everyones taste.

also, this was one third the price of my moog theremin, so thats a factor too.
not sure its an essential piece of kit, but im sure ill get some use here and there and lots of fun in none useful moments too. and they do look bloody cool

bonus points, the cat can play it too

[whyterabbyt]

Im not a drum machine guy, but I do rather like this, by Neutral Labs...

https://youtu.be/_y6I5oEo2o0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tl_OufE4Uo

[foosnark]

Im not a drum machine guy, but I do rather like this, by Neutral Labs...

2012 me would have been suuuuuper into that.

2024 me is glad to see it's not a must-buy for what I do now and I can move on without FOMO.

[vurt]

I still want one of these, but I’m done with new buys for the year. I’m just waiting on Bruxa at this point.

wonder what the special announcement is?
im off to see venom so won't be there live.

[foosnark]

wonder what the special announcement is?

A new system, the ReSynthesizer. It's basically what they have been using in most of their videos for the past few months. Morphagene, Spectraphon, QPAS, 2x Maths, Tempi/Renee, Mimeophon, some other stuff.

Also new firmware coming for Spectraphon which allows linear array modulation (finally, yay!!!) and... Eugene Spectralman

[vurt]

thats good! i already have most of that, no need to scare my bank so close to xmas.

[Shabdahbriah]

^^^ Just received this moments go: Make Noise The Resynthesizer (Pre-Order) ... $4,599.00
Comprised of: Spectraphon, Mimeophon, Morphagene, Wogglebug, MATHS (x2), X-PAN, TEMPI. René, PrssPnt, DXG, QPAS, Case/Power supply...

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[foosnark]

Their demos so often make me reconsider QPAS. I had it, and liked the design overall but wound up selling it because I wasn't super into the resonance characteristics as Q increased, and was super picky about filters in general. But my tastes in filters have changed somewhat since then. I think I may need to re-evaluate.

(Update: hmm, maybe my memory of *why* I let go of QPAS is a bit faulty. I see at the time, I was worried about the relatively high power consumption on the -12V rail, and that I wanted to try Joranalogue Filter 8. At around that time I had been making other regrettable modular decisions, and still had a weird attitude toward filters. So maybe I shouldn't read too much into my reasoning at the time, one way or another.)

It's the same size as Morpheus. Morpheus is cool, but also a bit of a pain in the ass in some ways.

Hmmmmmmm.

[justin3am]

QPAS is such a cool filter. Most of the time I either ping it or I run samples through it (in which case I'm kinda pinging it). I usually take the mono outputs into Xpan, so I can fade through them. Lots of feedback possibilities too. FM sounds really good, particularly on percussive patches.

I'm still pretty picky about filters. I don't have a wide variety and almost all of them are 2-pole Sallen-Key or State Variable. But I usually end up with more than one of the filters I like, lol.

[foosnark]

After watching a few more videos and sleeping on it, I went ahead and bought a used QPAS.

[elxsound]

thats good! i already have most of that, no need to scare my bank so close to xmas.

This was my favorite announcement so far.

I just don't have x-pan, but I can fake it with CVilizaiton to follow the videos.

Lots of new releases at this time of year. Teenage Engineering's release is rumored to come next week. Elektron had Digitone 2, and Ableton released Move.

I've got Move, but still no plans for purchases.

[vurt]

just watching the divkid bandit video...

[Shabdahbriah]

After watching a few more videos and sleeping on it, I went ahead and bought a used QPAS.

Well, I've been doing the same, and may be close... It's been on the 'someday' list for four years (!), as I just checked my email receipts to be sure I had one, and sho-nough, there's a Grayscale QPAS (matte black) panel (and two X-Pan) purchase, dated Oct-03-2020.