| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2011.1 | Ouch... | WEFXEM::COTE | No marigolds in the promised land... | Mon Jun 05 1989 10:55 | 6 |
| I believe one of the more active noters in this conference had a hard
time selling one for ~$350...
...which breaks my heart. I still like mine!
Edd
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| 2011.2 | My ears are ringing (that's what FM synthesis is good at!) | NRPUR::DEATON | | Mon Jun 05 1989 12:20 | 14 |
| RE < Note 2011.1 by WEFXEM::COTE "No marigolds in the promised land..." >
Er, ah, (ahem)...
I finally did sell it via the want advertizer for $440. Then, of
course, there was the $44 commission. Synths like the DX21 and all its brethren
don't seem to be selling all that good - at least not around this conference.
People that read here tend to stear toward the latest/greatest. Make no
mistake; the DX21 is a fine instrument, as is many of the synths around that
era. Its just that the electronic music industry moves so fast these days that
the word 'obsolete' gets used prematurely and tends to devalue things unfairly.
Dan
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| 2011.3 | | WEFXEM::COTE | No marigolds in the promised land... | Mon Jun 05 1989 12:42 | 8 |
| That sounds more realistic...
I think $500 would be a good asking price, with $400 acceptable. At the
time of it's release (@$795) it was the premier 4-op synth. Some of
it's features (on board chorus, PEG) still don't show up on many of
the 4-op units.
Edd
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| 2011.4 | | MIZZOU::SHERMAN | ECADSR::SHERMAN 227-3299, 223-3326 | Mon Jun 05 1989 12:47 | 11 |
| I think the problem is that the sound of a 4-op synth tends to be
readily identifiable, especially if you use presets. Of course,
you can spend time tweeking the parameters to get a 'new' sound.
(For example, it didn't take long before vendors had D-50-ish patches
out for FM synths.) But, folks just don't want to take the time
to do patches. Maybe the formula for a soon-to-become-obsolete synth
is to make a synth that has a unique but identifiable sound that leaves
a good first impression, make it hard to tweek patches to get the
sound you want, and make it readily available to the average musician.
Steve
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| 2011.5 | Free patches - get yours now | CSG002::ROACH | | Mon Jun 05 1989 23:54 | 9 |
| This day and age, you can find lots of 4-op and 6-op patches in the public
domain. I have a few thousand sitting on my PC. The biggest problem is wading
through them to try them out. You could spend days searching. There is little
need to get into the sound part of the patches. I do tweak the functions (LFO,
BC parameters) to get them to respond better.
I'd rather play than program.
Geoff
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