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I've been listening to the demo's on the soundlab site, alot of them are cool but some of them are just too noisey for me, I'm looking for examples of practical uses.

I tried youtube, of course everything on there is total trash. why is it that people forget to make music with cool devices like this?

anyway, if you've got any examples of your soundlab synth I'd love to hear it, I'm very interested in hearing a lowpass bass sweep as I haven't heard anybody do a simple slow filter sweep to demo the filters sound

thanks

to be honest, I think the reason why there aren't any "regular" demos is because a lot of the users don't use the cv inputs... which means it's just a noise-box until you get that midi->cv box too.

Machinate wrote:to be honest, I think the reason why there aren't any "regular" demos is because a lot of the users don't use the cv inputs... which means it's just a noise-box until you get that midi->cv box too.

you might be right there.

I've been talking to a guy who will build one for me, with the sample/hold and the osc modulation and some fine tune knobs, plus something like 14 point patch bay. he just told me 533 + shipping which sounds like a fantastic deal.

all I want is to hear some more quality demo's before I commit. and I also wanna know if my mc-202 will properly drive the cv in's as I'm a little confused about the fact that cv works between some synths and not others (which has been explained to me and I still don't understand the answer in this particular case)

I have just recently finished building a soundlab as well as the single bus keyboard controller. I used an old usb controller keyboard to build it into.

As far as the sound goes, the samples aren't that great on the site for the reasons Machinate stated.
I have managed to get some usable sounds out of it, but it is a very basic synth compared to the soft synths you can get today even some of the freebies out there. But add some reverb and/or delay and your away. It is fun having built it from scratch and the not just jumping through presets all the time.
I also built the sample and hold module for it, which makes some cool effects.

Next plan is to build a midi to cv converter..

I have all the parts but still didn't do mine. I listened to all the clips too when I decided I wanted one and IMO (owning and having owned tons of analogue synths) it WILL make some very good sounds.

The way a real analogue distorts, the way the oscillators track te keyboard (which is slightly off) and what is called "parasitic" properties (all parameters interact because they are all part of the same physical circuit) are what makes analogue have balls software doesn't really have. Which is neither good or bad but it really is different.

If you get it built ask the guy to do a switch so 1 CV can drive both oscillator pitches there are 2 inputs for duophonic opration but most MIDI-CV converters will do 1 keyboard CV out only. and if you're going to spend 500 buks maybe you should get a Doepfer MCV4 as well you get 3 extra CVs that you can assign to velocity, controllers etc. that you can use in the patch points for filter cutoff and shit.