Eventide,... love that stuff. I've been inside of those for the 
purpose of servicing and repairing (SPS2019 the 8-bit version,
HS2000/ HS3000) they're wonderful. Wish I had a couple. Saw King
Crimson in concert a few years ago, Robert Fripp had a rack with
four HS3000's in it. I had just got done working on two units for
someone earlier that day, so I thought it was so cool. Sounded great.

As far a Yamaha goes, we still use a DX5, basically a stereo pair
of DX7's in  one box. It uses two RAM packs, a Bank1 (stereo left) 
and a Bank2 (stereo right). We have a set of Bo Tomlin's Analog packs.
Met him a couple times in the late 1970's, during my days working for
Iron Butterfly and their spin-off bands.

You guys are making me wax nostalgic. I love it,... talk synthie to me. (LOL)


-Partev


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--- steiner@block4.com wrote:

From: Malte Steiner 
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: [OT] wishes (was Re: Re: kyma x)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:34:42 +0100

Also making electronic music since 1983, still buying hardware 
equipment. Michael Gogins is right about Open Source and thats why I am 
using it more and more. I never thought that one device or software 
could replace another one (do you remember the times where everyone 
threw out analogue synths in the 80s in favor for stuff like DX7? ) , I 
keep adding. Sometimes I like to work with CSound, sometimes PD and 
another day it has to be an actual analogue modular (in my case a 
Doepfer A100) when I cant stand computers.
Recently I had the opportunity to work with a Kyma Capybara system but I 
found it to be rather odd, comming from a Max and PD background. You 
grab a preset patch and change it but AFAIK you cant build something 
from scratch. Its nice to have a dedicated DSP box but you totally 
depend on the software which you always need to run, even if you dont 
want to change anything, just playing your patches.
The current systems, Paca and Pacarana, dont have A/D/A converters 
anymore, so an external Firewire or USB converterbox is to be added to 
the price and only a handful is supported.

I have a sweet spot for Eventide DSP FX boxes like the H8000 but I guess 
it wouldn't add something vast new to my studio. Their patch editor 
looks like PD and is rather complicated to setup, so why not using PD?

So these feelings of need, the socalled Gear Acquisition Syndrome ,are 
just sentimental. The only benefit I guess are the loads of high quality 
presets that Eventide and Kyma comes with. My understanding of digital 
signal processing is rather limited so it would help.

Cheers,

Malte