To whom it concern (I talking to you Korg, Roland, Yamaha and Elektron):
Would someone please make a proper hardware synth for electronic musicians who want to live perform (like a groove box)? For some reason no company has all the ingredients. What I (and probably most others) would like to see are the following:
1. Take the structure of a polyphonic multi part synth like the Fantom or Montage with 16 parts under keyboard control
2. Include seamless sound switching from the Montage (no delays or load times switching multi part performances)
3. Include a TR step sequencer from the Fantom for drums (with proper visual note editing)
4. Include the performance recorder from the Montage (this is helpful to get a jam going, but sadly they do not have proper visual note editing)
5. Add the note trigs p locking from Elektrons devices (including note probability and changing the sound parameters per step)
6. Have much more polyphany so it never runs out (Roland what did you do???)
7. Include Rolands VA engine with lots of lfos and destinations (its really good better than the new Montage)
8. Allow live switching performances while the sequencer is still playing back a scene etc. (with the Montage, in order to switch a performance in the live set we have to stop the performance recorder playback. If we had this we could transition from one song to the next with no laptop needed) Maybe an idea here would be a way to live loop capture an audio snippet while its playing, and then that audio would continue to play in a loop while we load up a new performance and then have some sort of cross fader or something.
9. Of course make it easy to fade out parts volumes, solo and mute parts just as one would do with a live performance. How about applying solo to more than part at once? With a few button presses we could cut parts we dont want. But no thats too difficult isnt it?
10. Add ableton like clip and scene launching)
11. make both a desktop unit and a keyboard version.
12. include root note scale locking (again Yamaha booo!)
13. 16 velocity sensitive drum pads (with the ability to also trigger samples)
14. Have enough memory to save so many user performances and libraries.
15. Easy arpeggio creation. (Again Yahaha doesnt get it. We have to make an arp in the DAW then load it on a USB and wait half an hour for the Montage to accept it)
16. and really important is AUDIO and MIDI over USB) Once cable!!!
17. button presses to turn off keyboard control for each part
18. The superknob is pretty cool.
19. Make the sequence length up to 128 steps. (not sure why most place limits to 32 or 64)
20. Performance transpose. (+1 Elektron)
21. Performance FXs that can be triggered with buttons
Anyone else have features they would like?
Would someone please make a proper hardware synth for electronic musicians who want to live perform (like a groove box)? For some reason no company has all the ingredients. What I (and probably most others) would like to see are the following:
1. Take the structure of a polyphonic multi part synth like the Fantom or Montage with 16 parts under keyboard control
2. Include seamless sound switching from the Montage (no delays or load times switching multi part performances)
3. Include a TR step sequencer from the Fantom for drums (with proper visual note editing)
4. Include the performance recorder from the Montage (this is helpful to get a jam going, but sadly they do not have proper visual note editing)
5. Add the note trigs p locking from Elektrons devices (including note probability and changing the sound parameters per step)
6. Have much more polyphany so it never runs out (Roland what did you do???)
7. Include Rolands VA engine with lots of lfos and destinations (its really good better than the new Montage)
8. Allow live switching performances while the sequencer is still playing back a scene etc. (with the Montage, in order to switch a performance in the live set we have to stop the performance recorder playback. If we had this we could transition from one song to the next with no laptop needed) Maybe an idea here would be a way to live loop capture an audio snippet while its playing, and then that audio would continue to play in a loop while we load up a new performance and then have some sort of cross fader or something.
9. Of course make it easy to fade out parts volumes, solo and mute parts just as one would do with a live performance. How about applying solo to more than part at once? With a few button presses we could cut parts we dont want. But no thats too difficult isnt it?
10. Add ableton like clip and scene launching)
11. make both a desktop unit and a keyboard version.
12. include root note scale locking (again Yamaha booo!)
13. 16 velocity sensitive drum pads (with the ability to also trigger samples)
14. Have enough memory to save so many user performances and libraries.
15. Easy arpeggio creation. (Again Yahaha doesnt get it. We have to make an arp in the DAW then load it on a USB and wait half an hour for the Montage to accept it)
16. and really important is AUDIO and MIDI over USB) Once cable!!!
17. button presses to turn off keyboard control for each part
18. The superknob is pretty cool.
19. Make the sequence length up to 128 steps. (not sure why most place limits to 32 or 64)
20. Performance transpose. (+1 Elektron)
21. Performance FXs that can be triggered with buttons
Anyone else have features they would like?
Statistics: Posted by xtreme sounds — Tue Dec 26, 2023 4:10 pm — Replies 2 — Views 84