I have the M1 as well.....no batteries required. :))

Your observations about the difficulty of programming physical synths has goaded my longstanding annoyance at the absolute absurdity of designing VST interfaces so that they look like cartoons of the old physical synths. A virtual "knob" to control a parameter...really? A knob that responds by moving a mouse forward and back by imitating rotation...jeeze. There are so many more easily controlled methods of data entry, and no reason whatsoever to make these interfaces so just plain silly.

Hi,
 
I don't know enough about keyboards ... I know the sounds I like and would love to fiddle with, but trying to re-create them and find them ... has not been an easy proposition.
 
I did buy one of the Arturia's programs, the Jupiter, and I like it a lot, despite it having a set bank that is stuck with their own sounds ... one mistake/hit by your finger, and you just lost everything you got kinda thing!!!! ... but there is one issue ... I have no idea how to use the Sequencer, and in the couple of years of having this, still can not figure out how to use it, and I guess that no one knows either.
 
I've kinda given up getting help until the day I'm retired, or only working part time. The concentration needed to learn these things is getting too difficult to bother with. I can't even get something to double up, or repeat kinda thing, and that makes learning real hard, and being partially blind, really difficult all around.
 
As time goes by, VST's may be the trick, but in the end, no one will know how to use these things, except create ONE RIFF ... for their song, and that is a massive waste of an instrument. Pretty soon, you might as well get rid of the 5 strings on a guitar ... as teaching someone to play it will be too difficult and time consuming.
 
Hopefully, things will improve ... but I can not see buying a piece of hardware that will be redundant tomorrow and worthless for anything else, except one riff! But I would like a synthesizer, if anything to learn and not have to be limited to the VST stuff that is making it harder to learn all around.

Moshkito
Hi,
 
........Pretty soon, you might as well get rid of the 5 strings on a guitar ... as teaching someone to play it will be too difficult and time consuming.
 

Imagine if they decided to put 6 strings on a guitar.....we will all need to study string theory.

slartabartfast
Your observations about the difficulty of programming physical synths has goaded my longstanding annoyance at the absolute absurdity of designing VST interfaces so that they look like cartoons of the old physical synths. A virtual "knob" to control a parameter...really? A knob that responds by moving a mouse forward and back by imitating rotation...jeeze. There are so many more easily controlled methods of data entry, and no reason whatsoever to make these interfaces so just plain silly.

 
The future is coming...

You could follow Sonys use of identical GUIs in its Sound Forge plugins. All identical rectangles that contain data entry points. Not a graphic element in sight. But the fx are great but absolutely no fun involved I using them that's for sure.

Mesh

Moshkito
Hi,
 
........Pretty soon, you might as well get rid of the 5 strings on a guitar ... as teaching someone to play it will be too difficult and time consuming.
 

Imagine if they decided to put 6 strings on a guitar.....we will all need to study string theory.

If an orchestra can now be done on an iPad by a well known classical musician, it's on the tube, you already know that most kids won't learn an instrument ... there won't be a need for it, when you can do this easily on a 25 dollar little keyboard plugged into a small computer! Strings will be history! The sounds just a memory! Folks playing it, a rarity!

When I consider all that is in the box I get the happy shivers like when I saw Sonar 1 all over again.
 

Glyn Barnes
Of course if I could get my hands on a knob laden modular synth with lots of patch cords. 

From the department of Drew has been a bad boy. A very bad boy. Very bad. Very, very, very, very bad. Bad, Drew, bad:
 

Just the one?