SvenArne

Anderton

SvenArne
Yup, I use it on every bass track with the switch set to "keep low". It may sound excessively gritty and growly solo'd, but it really enhances the audibility and "upfrontness" in the mix without it becoming overpoweringly loud.

+1. I saved a remix once with distortion on the bass. 

The QuadraFuzz?

You must never mention the Quadrafuzz. It is my secret weapon, and if you go blabbing about it on internet forums then it won't be a secret any more. I now have to perma-ban you and delete all your posts. Sorry, you seemed like a nice and intelligent person but you leave me no choice.

Anderton

SvenArne

Anderton
[...] a Synclavier[...]

I thought this was funny! What would be the Synclavier of 2014? Like the ultimate mythical piece of gear? 

Well, he said that quote at the time when the Synclavier was considered the ne plus ultra of music creation devices, and I wanted to quote him accurately. John died many years ago. I guess if he was alive today, he'd say "Pro Tools HDX System running at 192kHz."

That's a little more boring though. Every FLstudio kid knows their DAW can do everything the big boys can. Is there no instrument or gear being made today that's so expensive and so mysterious as to create it's own mythology? 

Anderton
 
You must never mention the Quadrafuzz. It is my secret weapon, and if you go blabbing about it on internet forums then it won't be a secret any more. I now have to perma-ban you and delete all your posts. Sorry, you seemed like a nice and intelligent person but you leave me no choice.

Ack, always I stick my neck out like that...
 
Of course I meant the QuadraSID

The SynClavier is still around. My friend has one and recently had it upgraded with the latest possible options. It's still a mythical object, still does some things other machines don't. I think it's the only one in the Netherlands.

Personally, without wanting to desecrate something as holy as the SynClavier, when speaking of comparable possibilities I'd have to go for the Korg Oasys or Kronos. While a Neko or Meko seem obvious choices too, they never offered the complete package and total integrated system that a SynClavier (or Oasys or Kronos) did, instead relying on a lot of third party content. The Korg offerings have a bunch of synth engines, sampling and hard disk recording all packaged into one integrated system. I'm not giving it the same status as the SynClavier because that was incredibly far ahead of its time, and the Oasys/Kronos aren't really. Nor are they as prohibitively expensive. But in some ways, they are a modern an affordable version of one.

Sanderxpander
[...]Korg Oasys or Kronos[...]

I think the Oasys had such a status for a while. But the release of the Kronos kinda cheapened the whole legacy (what, having the same sounds and more for one third of the price?)

I agree, the Oasys was ahead of its time. The Kronos still is but only because the competition has failed to catch up. In many ways it's a cheaper Oasys (although the sample streaming makes a huge difference, mine currently has like 25GB of samples loaded). Still happy they did it though, I would never have forked over the 8K to get an Oasys.

Again though, I was mostly talking about a modern equivalent feature-wise.

Sanderxpander
Again though, I was mostly talking about a modern equivalent feature-wise.

 Yeah, features aren't the stuff of legend the same as $$$$$

Weird, isn't it? A legend devalued simply because it's now available at a tenth the price. It should be even more impressive, but instead it becomes less exclusive.

dubdisciple
Maybe it's just me, but it seems obvious who LA 2A is or it's just an amazing equipment we get a poster like this the exact same time a regular poster here who has constantly bashed sonar over the years starts posting often again. This happens every year and he usually slips up and posts to defend himself under his regular name.

Silly me, of course. I had forgotten about this childish, cowardly behaviour.

jb101
Is it me, or does he sound like "Godparticle"?

It can't possibly be Godparticle. He's too busy DJ'ing every major club from the East Coast to the West Coast and taking ecstasy with some of the country's hottest babes.