Twiddling the knobs yet again.....

[poltr1]

One of the many whenever-I-get-around-to-it projects on my to-do list is to record digital audio samples of the patches I've come up on my Minimoog in the 20+ years I've had the instrument. One use for these is to use these on a sampling keyboard, which would (hopefully) be lighter and easier to transport than the Mini. (The instrument and case weigh about 60 pounds.)



Is anyone interested in listening what these sound like? Is it a good idea to even share these patches?

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[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Absolutely.

I know a lot of musicians today really love the "fat" sounds of the classic analog synths like the mini-Moog, the Roland Juno 60, the Oberheim, etc., etc. Not to mention the mania over the greatest drum machine of all time, the Roland TR-808.

[poltr1]

Roland? They build decent gear now, but in the 70's, I didn't have a very high opinion of Roland. It was a step above Casio. But at least they stayed in the electronic musical instrument business. Too many companies, like ARP, sunk so much into R&D that they couldn't recoup their investment with sales of production models.

Some guitar players also favor the nice warm sounds of tube amps versus the sterile sound of transistor amps.

I remember wanting a Linn Drum (or its predessor, the LM-1). Now that I have the sound font, I just need to figure out how to use it with the MIDI keyboard.

By the way, I've started recording audio samples of the sounds. I'll post when they're finished.