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PLEASE HELP A SYNTHLOVER: Mothership or FreqBox?

#21
DonKartofflo said:
...this is what I'm gonna do: borrow my band fellas snazzy fx mini ark and use its cv out to control a pals slim phatty :)
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Would love to hear how that works out for you. The guitar demo I listened to sounded a little lagged, but with synth stuff it's always very difficult to tell where the lag is coming from as it could be introduced by the synth's VCA and/or VCF attack setting. Set it up for a percussive synth voice with no attack for testing the trigger latency.
 
#22
Paint me curious as well, looking forward to a report. The guitarist in my band uses a MIDI pick-up on his Ernie Ball guitar into several synths- and that's working out very well. But I gave up on synth bass with a bass guitar a little over a year ago. Got a Little Phatty, then a DSI MoPho, and now an Access Virus KB, and I rarely pick up a bass these days. It did take a few months to re-train my fingers to play keyboards, but now I do better and faster synth basslines on keyboard than I ever could with 4 strings.
 
#23
gastric said:
I ended up putting a GK-3B on a piccolo strung bass and running the GR-55 in guitar mode for best latency. After working with it for a while it feels very natural, and for whatever reason guitar mode provides faster retriggering of consecutive notes than bass mode.

But I've also modded my box to accept mono input so I can run my non-GK instruments into it for monophonic triggering and it works well as long as you play higher on the neck, not unlike you normally have to do with other mono-tracking gear like an OC-2.

I'm not saying it's the best thing ever, the best tracking, or the easiest to use. But it provides a TON of excellent functionality. And though it cost a lot, it's not any more expensive than a modular system, and even possibly less expensive if you're stacking Moog boxes.
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Exactly what needs to be done to get any kind of great tracking/latency. I've been playing my Mopho keyboard and really enjoy it and keeping my bass for use with the Moog low pass, octaver, fuzz, etc. I went through five Moogerfoogers and am down to two now. You're right, for all that cash invested I could have bought a GR-55 or a Moog Pahtty or other synth.
 
#24
RickenBoogie said:
Paint me curious as well, looking forward to a report. The guitarist in my band uses a MIDI pick-up on his Ernie Ball guitar into several synths- and that's working out very well. But I gave up on synth bass with a bass guitar a little over a year ago. Got a Little Phatty, then a DSI MoPho, and now an Access Virus KB, and I rarely pick up a bass these days. It did take a few months to re-train my fingers to play keyboards, but now I do better and faster synth basslines on keyboard than I ever could with 4 strings.
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+1. Lovin' my Mopho.
 
#25
okay after telling him for witch purpose i wanted to borrow the mini ark, he informed me that the cv out ov the mini ark is only tracking the loudness of the signal, it can be used as a trigger or a filter modulator, not for pitch :((
however the square out of the mini ark is an output dedicated for oscillator sync, the thing that the freqbox uses for tracking.
you can plug the square in into any modular synths sync in and it will track the freqbox perfectly.
but since i dont want to spend 500 just to be able to buy a modular synth and spend another thousand and since i dont like the hard sync sound of the freqbox (too dirty) i worked out another idea which is quite promising :D
i will come up with all the awesome details later ;)
cheers

edit: i have a keyboard synth (alesis micron) and it hase awesome and fat bass sounds. i just dont like the keyboard playing of bass lines. for pads, chords, arps I'm all over it but for bass lines ill stick to my bass.
 

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