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I had the same question, but I’m guessing normal folks don’t really notice the flickering or can just ignore it easily.

rutracker isn’t bad

Everyday is Halloween

A good sativa seems to supply what my brain is missing.

Yep and I really like Dreadbox as a company, they do their own thing they’re pretty underrated sound wise as well, I have an Erebus 3 and like it a lot my only problem with the Nymphes was the reported USB noise which I guess is okay if you power it normally, I would just prefer not to have USB powered synths. It is lovely sounding though, I was looking at the newer one, the Artemis as a possibility, or maybe an Oberheim TEO-5 or new Sequential Forum, or a Polyvera haha. Lots of choices now. I miss my Blofeld too, I sold it after I got the Virus TI because of overlap but it really has a great sound.

Good deal, Grandmothers have such a lovely sound (lol). The only Moog I ever had as a Labyrinth and that was fun, had to let it go but would pick up another at some point. Yeah I’m not exactly Keith Emerson so I don’t need a lot of keyboards either, I would like to have a nice analog polysynth keyboard though, that is the one thing I’m currently missing but I’ll probably go with a module again.

Hahaha, I’ve definitely been considering paring down a bit only because it’s a lot to keep track of at once, but I only have two synths with keyboards RN the Yamaha SY-77 and Novation BassStation 2, the rest are all desktop or rack modules. I’d love to have some more older keyboards like a Jupiter or Juno or Prophet but the price and upkeep and all that is getting a bit much.

Now there’s an ad hahaha, I suppose it is a bit of perspective, we’ve come a long way in terms of affordability.

Impulsive Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

I have considered that, I’ve been making music with computers since I was a kid starting with the Commodore 64 and the Kawasaki Synthesizers program, then to trackers on Amiga and PC (.MOD music), then to DAWs. Nowadays DAWs are just packed with so many options and there’s literally millions of plugins that I get frozen with choice rather often or just end up fucking around, not that I don’t just fuck around all the time with the hardware but it feels more satisfying. Emulation has come a long long way, as far as quality and even going to model circuit behaviour, but there is just a presence and tone of (some) hardware that is just not there yet, and still with certain types of frequency modulation you get nasty artifacts. Beyond the tactile usability and the sound quality there’s also a bit of nostalgia factor to it as well. I like old hardware, I like talking about it to people and learning new tips and tricks and sharing what I know.

A little of both, don’t have a full modular system because well that’s a whole different money sink, but I have a bunch of semi modular stuff that I hook up together, a lot of desktop synths, few keyboards, rack modules, sequencers, effects pedals. I’d love to get into eurorack sometime but that time is not now haha.

They’re the music kind not the star trek kind :( :) I can do a Cars cover song though, maybe… lol.

Lol ouch. I thought it would be a good idea to buy a room full of synthesizers before a new car so I’m stuck working third shift until I can get out of this hole.

Between my ADHD and my hearing being shot from going to so many raves when I was younger, have some patience plz.

I too missed out, I played Phantasy Star Universe on the PC some years after it came out, the single player campaigns were still a lot of fun though but it was such a cool universe I’m sure online play was pretty rad.

I’ve used it and it’s nice but I still prefer to have the actual modules in front of me to patch, and there is something going on with the circuitry of the non-DSP modules that make it a bit special. There’s some subtle modulations and such. Software does attempt to emulate this with complex maths and circuit models but it doesn’t seem quite the same to me personally.

Sure you can do everything in software, there’s some great sounding virtual synths nowadays. I prefer the tactility of hardware and just plugging this into that and seeing what happens, away from a computer which has taken over virtually every other aspect of life. Plus blinky lights pretty lol. I don’t use a computer for anything except to record a stereo mix. It’s mostly just to unwind and space out anyways. If I wanted to put together a song with a traditional structure I would probably use a computer. Anyways, I guess a lot of people also feel that way because the market for new hardware synthesizers has been expanding for years now, seems like there’s more new stuff coming out all the time, there’s a lot of boutique makers in the analogue and modular spaces, guitar pedals as well.

I’ve been finally realizing my dream of having a home studio filled with all sorts of synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, effects, mixers, etc. Pretty frustrating since now that electronic music has been incorporated into mostly every genre and there are also a lot of collectors all the now vintage pieces that my favorite artists used back in the day are priced insanely out of reach. Upside is there is a ton of cool new stuff coming out, too much cool new stuff.

Feels like they’ve been adding more ads, but still they have a ton of stuff, the movie selection is far better than most services particularly if you like not so new movies.

I’ll treat myself to some takeout tonight, what should I get? I dunno, let’s think about it until everything is closed.