what synth for a killer duo

with the help of u guys and a few other people i figured out how to triger my midi board with the mpc and use it to play melodies over the beats ,only problem now is i gotta use the shitty sounds of my yamaha psr 292 haha , but i was thinkin of coppin an emu mk6 for a synth what do uyall think of this peice , i heard the sum shit it made online but i dunno if it has midi in and out so i dunno wether to get it yet,but what do yall think of this keybopard as a duo with the mpc, what do u suggest instead,

loo2004ep wrote:with the help of u guys and a few other people i figured out how to triger my midi board with the mpc and use it to play melodies over the beats ,only problem now is i gotta use the **** sounds of my yamaha psr 292 haha

Good news: you can use the MPC1000 for melodic samples, so you're not stuck with the PSR sounds. I've put a few examples and pointers on my site (link below). I only have the one sampler, I want it to do everything...

emu mk6 -good $300
Alesis ion-hot $700
k-Station -$500
MicroKorg- Hot-$400


My 2 cents peace

Picked up my Virus A for $350 - chunkiest synth on the planet

Ther microkorg is really hot though - straight up...my partner is freakin' his right now!!! Top pick right behind the Virus A

microkorg is aight, the basses are kinda thin to me. im used to analog stuff for basses. but for everything else the microkorg is really nice.

the ION sounds big no matter what. but it's $$$

em-u stuff sounds flat to me, yet i still keep buying their stuff. i must be retarded.

any digital synth made after 1988 is going to have midi so you dont have to worry about that. i would even say it's likely that every major manufacturer's digital synths ever has had midi on it.

What's the best synth for dope thick bass lines? Like something on an average east coast record? I don't want to always have to sample and filter for basslines, And I don't usually get a bassline I actually want this way, just something that fits.

I use Juno-106 for my basslines

here, the only answer is:

virus C
16 part multi-timbral
3 band eq on every part

plus, it's a Virus. only possible competition might be an Indigo C

Lou, "What's the best synth for dope thick bass lines?"


These can be found relatively easy and should not wear that hard on the wallet:

Rolands mks-50, analogue 6 voice poly (rack version of the alpha 1/2 junos, which in turn are siblings of the slightly higher regarded juno 6, 60 and 106. Sounds goooood though!)

Yamaha tx81z, digital, 8 voice poly multimbral rack with the same sounds as the yamaha dx100, very popular with chicago house. Has the classic 'lately bass' patch.

Waldorf Pulse. 3 oscillator mono analogue synth. Crazy bass.

yamaha dx bass is not to be slept on.

sickest sines ever.

i'm using a nord micromodular - make ur own sounds up innit

yeah like effekt i use a juno 106 for the super fat stuff. pretty much any juno except the alphas are gonna sound good for bass. i guess the jupiters are nice too. moogs are good for basses. really almost any of the older analog deals are good for bass.

I think the alpha juno's are great for bass, their envelopes are not to be phuked with.

The 106 is a great sounding piece, it does it's job very well, and it can sound pretty fat, but not really my first choice if fat i what I'm after.
But it is one of those synths that is rewarding and usable everytime you play it, and that can't be said about most other synths.

On to the original question, I'm with the others in that you should get something fully tweakable, and not a straight rompler. This way it will be good for the long haul, and the more you use it, the better the sounds get.

Any of the VA crowd is pretty good, but they can be pricey. I like the novation stuff, but I don't own virtual analogs, but if I did, the novation would be the top of the list. Nords would be at the bottom for me personally, but the modular is good if that's what you are after.

we take the following (and a few others) and do "milking" sessions where we run the synth, sometimes add an outboard chain of effects/filters/EQ, and then sample it thru a tascam DAT with spdif going into a powerbook. we bang away on it for awhile and then chop up the results into soundsets for the MPC1k or other....

recent cows:

korg mono/poly (modified)
studio electronics ATC-1 (minimoog)
roland jupiter6
roland mks-50
doepfer 404
sequential circuits prophet 600
808
MAM MB33MKII

(ps - i am selling the roland mks-50)


BUT the best to go with an MPC full time would be a digitally controlled analog synth like the ATC or mks or SE-1 or PULSE or something. check out real analog if you are going to consider modeled analog.

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