20 greatest synths of all time...

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Fri May 04, 2007 6:33 pm

I would like to acknowledge the excellent quality and build of the only company that still builds polyphonic analog beasts. Studio Electronics. I have used their SE series synths for quite a while now, and believe that their new Code synth will remain the king of FAT in the world of analog.

The addition of sinewave generators on each voice has to sound incredible. I will let you know, as my M780 buddy has the Omega, and is now buying this one. That DIRTY BASTARD. I shall punish him w/ Solaris this fall.

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Sat May 05, 2007 3:50 am

nice beast

Hysteric · Post by **Hysteric** » Sat May 05, 2007 4:09 am

for me even though it may not be the Best synth ever created is the Octave Kitten. My reason is fairly simple, I could afford it in London years ago and the sound blew my mind away. To put it simply, it got me into synths and I've always had a soft spot and with good reason I think, this synth was great fun.

mike.kennedy · Post by **mike.kennedy** » Sun May 06, 2007 1:33 am

Thanks for the EMS pics Jimmy.

I was lucky enough to get a place on the postgrad Diploma in Electronic Sound course at UC Cardiff back in 1978 where they had a Synthi 100 and a few other EMSs (VCS3s and Synthi A - the synth in a suitcase).

As I'm not a keyboard player, these were great instruments because you didn't need a keyboard to get a sound out of them - in fact the VCS3 defaulted to no keyboard. In spite of this the VCS3 (as it was portable - Synthi 100 definitely not) was used by a number of Brit bands in the late 60s / early 70s - notably Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Led Zep and Roxy Music. At the time I was most disappointed to find that the (affordable) Jap synths had no patchboard!

Anyway, I was fortunate to have regular access to these systems for nearly a year and can vouch for their sonic qualities and useability. One of the guys in the department had (convincingly) reproduced "Knights in White Satin" - complete with guitar fret noses - entirely using multitracked Synthi 100. I wonder what has happened to that recording - and all the EMS kit that was owned by UCC!

VST emulation of the Synthi A is available here: http://www.emsrehberg.de/SYNTHI__s/SYNT ... lugin.html - although it's a little expensive at 350 euros! No idea what it's like as I haven't tried the demo yet.

Cheers,

Mike

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Sun May 06, 2007 1:39 am

I`ve tried the demo. And its quite funny and has a "good sound" although I think its not the same as the real one soundwise...

but the matrix is very cool..... something like this could be nice for the CW modular too.

mike.kennedy · Post by **mike.kennedy** » Sun May 06, 2007 2:22 am

but the matrix is very cool..... something like this could be nice for the CW modular too.

There there is a Synthi emulator for Scope Modular posted on PZ - author Doof... Find it in Modular Patches - I think it was a good attempt...

Mike