... and just for the hell of it I also got a Novation Supernova. It was £250, which I thought was cheap, but it turns out I was thinking of the Supernova 2. Never mind, it's a great bit of kit and full of swooshy noises. I got it linked up to the Doepfer MAQ16/3 and got immediate sequencer heaven, so I'll certainly be using it on my forthcoming album... On a separate note I had to give up on the Gem S2 Turbo keyboard, as it was proving too difficult to transfer the Turbo board to the S3, or even to transfer the patches (brilliant design there, Gem...) So now I'm just reprogramming the S3 by hand - it sounds great and the keyboard is fab, so I can live without the Turbo facilities and I've sold on the S2.
Tuesday 9 February 2010
Novation Supernova
... and just for the hell of it I also got a Novation Supernova. It was £250, which I thought was cheap, but it turns out I was thinking of the Supernova 2. Never mind, it's a great bit of kit and full of swooshy noises. I got it linked up to the Doepfer MAQ16/3 and got immediate sequencer heaven, so I'll certainly be using it on my forthcoming album... On a separate note I had to give up on the Gem S2 Turbo keyboard, as it was proving too difficult to transfer the Turbo board to the S3, or even to transfer the patches (brilliant design there, Gem...) So now I'm just reprogramming the S3 by hand - it sounds great and the keyboard is fab, so I can live without the Turbo facilities and I've sold on the S2.
Thursday 4 February 2010
Novation Super BassStation and Kenton Control Freak
I was very pleased to get a Novation Super BassStation from eBay for £116 - the cheapest I've seen one. It adds more patches, stereo output, sample-and-hold, noise, ring-mod, stereo chorus, arpeggiator and other good stuff
to the spec of the original BassStation Rack I have, so I sold that for more than I paid for the Super BassStation, which I thought was remarkably clever of me.
I also got a Kenton Control Freak - not the Studio version with 16 sliders, but the standard one with eight, unfortunately, but it should be useful for applications such as editing the Oberheim Matrix 1000 and Doepfer MAQ16/3.
Update - So then I got a Control Freak Studio as well. I'll have to figure out whether there's any point in keeping the two, or whether the original can be sold.
to the spec of the original BassStation Rack I have, so I sold that for more than I paid for the Super BassStation, which I thought was remarkably clever of me. 
I also got a Kenton Control Freak - not the Studio version with 16 sliders, but the standard one with eight, unfortunately, but it should be useful for applications such as editing the Oberheim Matrix 1000 and Doepfer MAQ16/3.
Update - So then I got a Control Freak Studio as well. I'll have to figure out whether there's any point in keeping the two, or whether the original can be sold.
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