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They excist. But not as re-issue. Many synth-enthousiasts have added seperate outs on their drumboxes and added cv/gate (easier) or midi to control all the different parts seperately.

GeeJee wrote:They excist. But not as re-issue. Many synth-enthousiasts have added seperate outs on their drumboxes and added cv/gate (easier) or midi to control all the different parts seperately.

On the Minipops 7 ?

Yes there was a guy who had a website who had modded his to have a seperate output for each sound,they are possible to clock to midi externally with mods too,Never bothered doing any mods to mine,in all honesty a reissue,unless it had total control over the timbres of the sounds and total editing options is a waste of time,infact there's nothing that the samples on the net and a decent sampler couldn't do better.

Korg have added several of the Minipops sounds in their PCM data on the Triton,although not stock PCM they were part of the Vintage EXB boards internal drum sounds,nowadays stand alone Drum machines are pretty dead investments,most people who would utilise a lone drum box unit would possibly already be using a device of some sort possibly in the guise of a groovebox,and would make use of sample sets,rather than waste money on reissues,and those who would buy a drum machine would be minimal numbers,that most manufacturers wouldn't justify such devices

The Electribes were fun,reissues of a basic TR Philosophy built for trend,would be nice to see a Minipops with similar attributes,Can't really see it being a design option for Korg in the future,as you could achieve that with the MP7 samples and an ES1

Dave Smith and Roger Linn(Who designed Linn drum and Akai MPC's and samplers) are planning to release an Analog Drum machine,this was due toward the end of this year,they did have a protoype previewing at one of the main music shows earlier this year,but it seems they have delayed the release for some reason,would be interesting to see what it does,and how it sounds,if it gets manufactured at all,based on the recent Prophet 8 and Mono Evolvers smith made,it would be well received,although I'm not a massive Fan of the Prophet 8,(Nord Lead and Virus TI can do more)I do like the sound of the Mono/Poly evolvers,based on some You tube vids I've seen.

I tried to recreate some minipopsrhythms on the EMX. It worked better than nothing, but I could be more happy about the result as the onboard synthengine doesn't nail all sounds too good.

Ha yes now I remember, on my wishlist I have :
- A small DIY cabinet (I'm already working on it !)
- A Roland JD-990 with Vintage Card
- An Encore Frequency Shifter (duuuuuuuude I love it !)

Hm, I have been quite interested in the Quasimidi Sirius lately, but I can't find any demo of the vocoder, is there anyone out there having the synth ?

Nico_Noyau wrote:Hm, I have been quite interested in the Quasimidi Sirius lately, but I can't find any demo of the vocoder, is there anyone out there having the synth ?

Not sure what the Vocoder is like,but there are a few demos on You tube,that the synth sounds quite interesting,I've been trying to get my hands on one,but I've been outbid on ebay on 2 occasions in the past 12 months

Its certainly got something Quirky about it,that many people have overlooked,plus I would say that they were never made in huge numbers,so its one of those synths that holds it price within the secondhand market.

Yeps I have watched the videos on YouTube, that's why I really fell in love with its sound, I have always wanted to get a "fatter" sound, a "fat German" sound, and the Sirius seems to be exactly what I am looking for, and about the price, it's common to find it for 300-350€, so why not give it a go !
But on VSE you can find a very short demo of what the vocoder can do, a very few seconds, it's not bad, still very fat, so I like it (of course the Sirius is said not to be a wonderful vocoder).

But nice to see I'm not the only one after such a beast

try my friend Jexus on Youtube He has 2 demos of Sirius





also

http://jexus.id.uw.edu.pl/WCOG_Quasimid ... actory.mp3

http://jexus.id.uw.edu.pl/WCOG_Quasimidi_Sirius.mp3

http://jexus.id.uw.edu.pl/WCOG_Quasimid ... _part2.mp3

http://jexus.id.uw.edu.pl/WCOG_Quasimid ... -songs.mp3

At least Jexus demonstrates "what a man can do with a synth" He has a lot of weird things going on, but sure knows how to tweak a synth to the limit.

Oh yes yes, that was the first video I watched, but despite I couldn't find any vocoder demo

Jexus has done some awesome synth demos,I stumbled on his vids via the VSE forum,I particuarly like the Korg Z1,really shows off the potential of the Z..

Moog drum.

Kanta wrote:Moog drum.

Then you would also need a synthesizer, since this one is only a controller

Okay, I was just being silly hence the .