GeeJee wrote:Yeah, somehow I have always found it hard to take her seriously. Sure I understand the point of vintage gear that needs a lot of maintaining, but this doesn't go for 85+ and 90s synths... I don't spot a single Synthex, M1 or K2000, there's just Equipment from 1995 and later...
I agree for the great part with you all, Cikira is in my opinion more a collector than a composer or sound designer. The fact that she has more units of the same synth is a bit of an evidence to me.
Obviously the more synths one have the less is the time to spend with each one.
When I purchased the Wavestation back in 1992 I just had a W-30 and a Cheetah MS-6, so I spent my great time on it, to try to go deep into it, rather than browsing presets and tweaking a couple of knobs or parameters (like it may happen if you have a lot of gears - hardware or software)
Where I don't agree is that she is a VA "girl". She has several "digital" synths, the most are in rack format. For example Korg WS AD, Roland JD-990 (& the JD-800), a lot of E-MU morpheus and other "protei", a couple of Alesis ROMplers etc.
Then on the analog side she has Minimoog Voyagers, Oberheim Xpanders, Studio Electronics (ATC & SE-1), matrix 1000s, Dave Smith Evolvers, Alesis Andromedas. Plus the 6 Waldorf Pulse...
It's not the first user I see who stack several Waldorf Pulse synths, I don't know if it's to have a modular polyphony or to drive them with an analog-like hardware sequencer.
This is from Andrea Toni setup.
I agree that it's curious she never invested on a suitable mixing desk, at least a Mackie 32:8.
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