I’ve been finally realizing my dream of having a home studio filled with all sorts of synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, effects, mixers, etc. Pretty frustrating since now that electronic music has been incorporated into mostly every genre and there are also a lot of collectors all the now vintage pieces that my favorite artists used back in the day are priced insanely out of reach. Upside is there is a ton of cool new stuff coming out, too much cool new stuff.
Sure you can do everything in software, there’s some great sounding virtual synths nowadays. I prefer the tactility of hardware and just plugging this into that and seeing what happens, away from a computer which has taken over virtually every other aspect of life. Plus blinky lights pretty lol. I don’t use a computer for anything except to record a stereo mix. It’s mostly just to unwind and space out anyways. If I wanted to put together a song with a traditional structure I would probably use a computer. Anyways, I guess a lot of people also feel that way because the market for new hardware synthesizers has been expanding for years now, seems like there’s more new stuff coming out all the time, there’s a lot of boutique makers in the analogue and modular spaces, guitar pedals as well.
I’ve used it and it’s nice but I still prefer to have the actual modules in front of me to patch, and there is something going on with the circuitry of the non-DSP modules that make it a bit special. There’s some subtle modulations and such. Software does attempt to emulate this with complex maths and circuit models but it doesn’t seem quite the same to me personally.
I’ve been finally realizing my dream of having a home studio filled with all sorts of synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, effects, mixers, etc. Pretty frustrating since now that electronic music has been incorporated into mostly every genre and there are also a lot of collectors all the now vintage pieces that my favorite artists used back in the day are priced insanely out of reach. Upside is there is a ton of cool new stuff coming out, too much cool new stuff.
Isn’t it all software now?
Sure you can do everything in software, there’s some great sounding virtual synths nowadays. I prefer the tactility of hardware and just plugging this into that and seeing what happens, away from a computer which has taken over virtually every other aspect of life. Plus blinky lights pretty lol. I don’t use a computer for anything except to record a stereo mix. It’s mostly just to unwind and space out anyways. If I wanted to put together a song with a traditional structure I would probably use a computer. Anyways, I guess a lot of people also feel that way because the market for new hardware synthesizers has been expanding for years now, seems like there’s more new stuff coming out all the time, there’s a lot of boutique makers in the analogue and modular spaces, guitar pedals as well.
Sounds like you would enjoy https://vcvrack.com/
I’ve used it and it’s nice but I still prefer to have the actual modules in front of me to patch, and there is something going on with the circuitry of the non-DSP modules that make it a bit special. There’s some subtle modulations and such. Software does attempt to emulate this with complex maths and circuit models but it doesn’t seem quite the same to me personally.
Retro anything has jumped in value tremendously; for me its been game hardware.