I have a Sequential Pro3 that can make a wild assortment of synth sounds, and yet I constantly just make some version of "whistling hairy organ".llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sun Apr 27, 2025 1:04 pm Moog Subsequent 25
I bought it at a 30% discount since it was being discontinued - cheap enough to not be turned off by the piles of negative comments by internet people who had admittedly never touched the thing.
I spent the first 10 minutes scrolling through the EDM presets and then never touched them again. I like it a lot. Its a little dirty but it feels like it can do a lot within its own parameters. It responds well to guitar pedals and I’ve been using a Uni-vibe for Leslie ramping sounds. I tend to dial out a lot of the brassiness and dirt out of it, but most of the sound lives on the second half of the filter. I can scroll around the octaves easy enough to not mind the short keyboard but I’m no player. The monophony doesn’t bother me since you can be creative with delay or kind of dial in harmonies with the filter, but again I can’t play anyways.
Went back and forth trying it through a di and an Ampeg V2 and 1x15 with EV 15L both thru an Audioscapr Pultec line amp w/o eq and much preferred it with the amp, even when mic’d up. It was just a mono signal but sounded like it was gliding around inside the stereo image right off.
Biggest drawbacks to me are that:
It sounds like a synth
Its tough to correctly set your levels for big swells when you’re recording yourself.
Neither being much of a problem. Maybe this synth is a gateway drug but based on the sounds I tend to prefer I think what I really want is an organ with drawbars, since I’ve been dialing in a lot of swirling garage-like organ leads like you’d hear on a Monks or Mummies record. I really want to line up some organic whistling sound somewhere between Ennio Morricone and Rafael Toral (not so much X-Files), hence my early q about a ribbon controller I’d still like to get sorted out.
That looks cool, will add to saved searches in case one comes up for a steal.mdc wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:47 am If you're interested in classic combo organ sounds (vox etc), keep an eye out for one of the Yamaha Reface YCs. They sound extremely good and if you find the small keys limiting, you can just plug it into a larger MIDI controller.
I’m going to have to try more. I did end up plugging the synth into a Reamp before an old Memory Man with the crazy preamp, but it wasn’t totally necessary. The Memory Man sounded like it put a blanket over the synth, but not at all in a bad way and the echo and modulation still sounded good. It just made it sound more primitive, which I actually liked for some sounds.TylerDeadPine wrote: I find Synth through Amp is the most fun too. All of my fuzz pedals felt completely different with synth through it, some are 'unusable' on guitar to me, and suddenly they're my favorite synth pedal
I really wish they would just put out no keys desktop versions of those. With the El piano and organ one you pretty much have a poor mans nord that sounds easily as good.mdc wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:47 am If you're interested in classic combo organ sounds (vox etc), keep an eye out for one of the Yamaha Reface YCs. They sound extremely good and if you find the small keys limiting, you can just plug it into a larger MIDI controller.
I've got one of these and can confirm that it sounds great.mdc wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:47 am If you're interested in classic combo organ sounds (vox etc), keep an eye out for one of the Yamaha Reface YCs. They sound extremely good and if you find the small keys limiting, you can just plug it into a larger MIDI controller.
Yeah they sound pretty good. This dude can be a little irritating but this video shows off some of the sounds quite well.mdc wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:47 am If you're interested in classic combo organ sounds (vox etc), keep an eye out for one of the Yamaha Reface YCs. They sound extremely good and if you find the small keys limiting, you can just plug it into a larger MIDI controller.
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(Y'all need to quit potentially raising the price of nifty gear on the used market...)four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 2:57 pmI've got one of these and can confirm that it sounds great.mdc wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:47 am If you're interested in classic combo organ sounds (vox etc), keep an eye out for one of the Yamaha Reface YCs. They sound extremely good and if you find the small keys limiting, you can just plug it into a larger MIDI controller.
I was skeptical for a bit until I saw Stereolab using one for all of the organ parts in 2019 and thought, "Well, if it works for them, it certainly can work for me."
One caveat about the MIDI: your larger controller needs to be capable of being a MIDI "host." The Reface series will not act as a host. There are some standalone host boxes out there. I used one when I converted my Reface CP to a rackmount sound module and used a cheap 63 key USB controller with it.mdc wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:47 am If you're interested in classic combo organ sounds (vox etc), keep an eye out for one of the Yamaha Reface YCs. They sound extremely good and if you find the small keys limiting, you can just plug it into a larger MIDI controller.
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