Personal attacks, insults, and bad faith criticism of other posters' equipment or music will not be tolerated. The phaser is also gorgeous when paired with certain pianos, notably the Rhodes Mk. This will send the sound to your connected reface and show them you to move the controls on your keyboard to recreate the sound. Totally subjective, but it felt more immediately satisfying to me and that's a large part of my buying criteria. The keyboard itself feels incredibly sturdy and boutique. The keys have a remarkably well calibrated dynamic range and once you get used to their smaller size it is possible to play very dynamic keyboard parts, as well as fast passages.
It's a small desktop version same exact circuitry etc. While interesting I would never buy, mainly because their form factor, also because they look and feel like toys. Next up is the master volume and an octave slider. Refining Sound: A Practical Guide to Synthesis and Synthesizers. However, the entire reface series is baffling. The Delay is cleverly implemented and can be switched to either analog or digital mode.
Add final polish to your sound using the two onboard multi-effects. Go to or one of the Facebook Synth Memes groups instead. Eno's methods involve tape manipulation, reversing and slowing down recordings to generate new ones. Why are we still talking about the reface again? The effect section is very efficient and it really contributes to the credibility of the sound. In Pulse mode, Mod controls the pulse width while Texture tunes a second pulse wave in semitone increments. This is my biggest problem with it.
These controls are very effective in defining the type of electric piano sound you want to create. If it fails for the same defect 3 times, it is replaced on the 4th breakdown. Maybe a notch under a current top-end clonewheel, but just a notch. With no mod wheel, no knobs, and no aftertouch, the only way you can vary your sound is velocity. The volca is 6 operator just like the dx7. The main course was contemporary ear-smashing.
There's so much hate going on around this poor little thing that it simply makes me rethink the whole process of purchasing the Reface and it successfully prevents me from buying it. I'm using that on everything right now. In Oscillator Sync mode, the two sliders control sync tuning and envelope modulation depth, for recreating those vintage swept leads. A pair of rate and depth sliders offer a touch of customization. The onboard Looper records your playing complete with œsound on sound-style overdubs. Got a quick idea for a song or just want to jam? At that time, a number of Yamaha departments were developing different instruments in parallel,.
The downside of the volca is its limited polyphony 3 and the lack of velocity sensitivity. Limited patch memory is a weakness of both the units you mentioned. This model comes with an extensive effects section which includes tremolo, wah-wah, chorus, phaser, digital and analogue delays, reverbs, as well as a drive control. It also has its own very capable virtual analog synth engine. Yamaha manufactured units on a scale American competitors could not match, and sold 200,000 in three years; by comparison, sold 12,000 synthesizers in 11 years, and could not meet demand. I'll keep this updated as long as I can.
Musician's Friend is a registered trademark of Musician's Friend, Inc. I guess Yamaha had already been working in the digital domain, so he knew exactly what I was saying. Samplers are fine and dandy, but not conceptually different from a tape recorder or a Mellotron. It is a lot easier to mess around with and create patches. The keyboard rate scaling function controls the length of the note across the frequency spectrum, allowing for longer basses and shorter trebles, much like an acoustic instrument. Quickly edit, store and recall 32 of your favorite Voices with the onboard memory.
This is a lot more versatile than either of the previous approaches. Compared to samplers for example, it is a new concept in sound-making. Super rare and the keyboard glows in the dark! I'm kinda lost right now. My experience, saw them both in a store, played with the reface, sounds good, good interface, didn't grab me though. In any real musical use, the difference is negligible.