I recently plunged back into ambient and thought I could use phat synth tones, arpeggiators and LFOs. In other words, it was time to shop for an analog (or analog style) performance synth.
I'm fortunate enough that this kind of synth is fashionable. Synth people are getting a bit bored about software synthesis, they miss tweaking knobs and stuff.
They sell well and they're pretty cheap, there's a myriad of incredible electronic instruments under 500 bucks. I ended with a phenomenal Arturia Microfreak. Incredible what it offers for its price. Anyway.
In my search, I stumbled upon Korg's Nu-Tekt brand. They so far offer 4 products, all with novative concepts. They come as kits, are easy tweakable and pretty much open source.
One of them is the Korg Nu/tekt NTS-1. Look at this cutie, it barely fits the palm of your hand.
This little thing should be very popular amongst experimental bass players. It offers multiple connections, a single oscillator with 4 wave forms, a multimode tone filter, 3 LFOs to fatten up things, 3 built-in effects (mod, delay, reverb), a ribbon keyboard and an arpegiator.
This oughta covers the need for synth of most bass players. It can be used to play heavy bass pedals, bass-drops, arpeggiated fast synth lines, many things you can often need.
All this for us$ 90, which is incredible.
Now for the bonuses :
There's an audio in that lets you use the effects for an external source and mix them with the synth.
There's a growing community around it and its tweakable nature lead topeople creating a pedal around it.
The effects spots are completely editable and can be replaced by aything else, with editors and a growing library.
You can time sync it or even use it
There's so much to it, I don't understand how nobody on the board fell for it so far.
I'm fortunate enough that this kind of synth is fashionable. Synth people are getting a bit bored about software synthesis, they miss tweaking knobs and stuff.
They sell well and they're pretty cheap, there's a myriad of incredible electronic instruments under 500 bucks. I ended with a phenomenal Arturia Microfreak. Incredible what it offers for its price. Anyway.
In my search, I stumbled upon Korg's Nu-Tekt brand. They so far offer 4 products, all with novative concepts. They come as kits, are easy tweakable and pretty much open source.
One of them is the Korg Nu/tekt NTS-1. Look at this cutie, it barely fits the palm of your hand.
This little thing should be very popular amongst experimental bass players. It offers multiple connections, a single oscillator with 4 wave forms, a multimode tone filter, 3 LFOs to fatten up things, 3 built-in effects (mod, delay, reverb), a ribbon keyboard and an arpegiator.
This oughta covers the need for synth of most bass players. It can be used to play heavy bass pedals, bass-drops, arpeggiated fast synth lines, many things you can often need.
All this for us$ 90, which is incredible.
Now for the bonuses :
There's an audio in that lets you use the effects for an external source and mix them with the synth.
There's a growing community around it and its tweakable nature lead topeople creating a pedal around it.
The effects spots are completely editable and can be replaced by aything else, with editors and a growing library.
You can time sync it or even use it
There's so much to it, I don't understand how nobody on the board fell for it so far.
