BCR 2000 AND BLOFELD SERIAL
one of 21 great-sounding filter types, 2 serial per patch, with drive Especially nice is combining this with a ~$100 MIDI controller like the BCR/BCF, so you can get hands-on tweakability of
I can get the Blofeld used for around 300Ī Micron is nice and stable, and cheap, and you'll love the depth as you're a programmer. I will probably get a knobby MIDI controller (I'm looking at the Behringer BCR2000) to ease programming and controlling a DAW environment. The wavetable part of it intrigues me, as I have no experience with wavetable synths. I've also liked what I head from online demos, but I'll hop to the store next week to try the synth myself. I'm pretty sure I'd have no trouble programming the Blofeld, as I like matrix style interfaces alot.
I wasn't quite impressed with the build quality nor the human interface (wheels beat sliders, IMO, and the pitch wheel on the middle of the keyboard isn't very ergonomic). The main reason I'm choosing the Miniak over the Micron is the hardware interface. The goddamned little thing really inspired me. I was extremely impressed with the sound of the thing, not only at classic analog style sounds, but also weird spaced out, FM-crazy patches I programmed on the thing. So, I've played an Alesis Micron the other day, at a local musicstore. I have no trouble menu-diving for programming, my experience with these synths has given me that. I'm looking into expanding my sound pallette, and looking into a VA.
I have an MFB Kraftzwerg, a small eurorack modular synth, a Roland Alpha Juno 2, a Roland D-50, a Yamaha FB-01, as well as a healthy amount of VST(i)s. Just to give you a little background, I'm not new to this game. I'll probably end up getting both of them at some time or another, but I need to start somewhere. I'm talking about the desktop version of Blofeld, as the keyboard version is a bit out of my reach. So I'm looking into buying a VA, and I'm having trouble deciding between those two.