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seraph
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 4:42 am Post subject:
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The impOSCar
GMEDIA Music continue their line of classic synthesiser emulations with the impOSCar. This plug-in instrument is based on the original UK-designed OSCar synthesiser, released in 1984 and which subsequently became a favourite instrument of Ultravox, S-express, Jean Michel Jarre and Underworld. Only 2000 OSCars were ever produced and today it remains a highly sought after instrument due to its unmistakable blitzkrieg sound quality and unique feature-set.
The impOSCar is a component model of this original synth but also contains a raft of new features such as polyphony, improved UserWave editing, enhanced filter modes, synchronised LFO and increased LFO waveforms, delay and chorus effects, and mono, duo and poly arpeggios. _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
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elektro80
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 11:49 am Post subject:
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I am a great of the original OSCAR. It is really a great little instrument. If this is new virtual instrument is anything like the original, and with the obvious improvements, this will be a winner for G-Media. There is one specific detail about these new virtual instruments that I am a bit concerned about. Most of them come with far more polyphony than the originals ever had, and this kind of changes the instrument into something completely different. I know how the old gear worked, so I can just set the parameters correctly, but newbies that have never played these old thingies.. and start out with a turbo poly mode.. they are really isiing the great carachter of the originals. It is kinda the same thing to say.. "hey, we have made a virtual instrument of the saxophone, and now it has 128 nmotes polyphony."
Keyboard players often have a serious illness, called the "polyphonic syndrome".
I guess they will issue virtual polypohonic maraccas soon! Oh, I guess they already have... _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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mosc
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:09 pm Post subject:
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Looks like we are going to get a virtual everything in the not to distant future. Can't wait for the virtual ReVox or Tascam 3340 tape recorders.
I think this is a good thing. These new virtual synths are probably better than the original ones. Maybe people will take the old hardware versions and start using them for circuit bending. |
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elektro80
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:23 pm Post subject:
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In some ways, yes.. all the new virtual ones are far better. I guess you remember my comments re the CS 80 and others.
BTW: Just saw that Novell is beta testing a virtual version of 1988. _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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mosc
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:28 pm Post subject:
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elektro80 wrote: | Novell is beta testing a virtual version of 1988. |
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elektro80
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:33 pm Post subject:
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_________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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egw
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Joined: Feb 01, 2003 Posts: 1569 Location: Asheville NC
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 2:56 pm Post subject:
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I think the character of these old instruments has as much to do with the physical style as it does with the sound. The real instrument would be a pleasure to own, just because of what it is. The virtual version just gives you a few more sounds to add to the thousands you already have, most of which you never actually use. A real synth is a joyful object. |
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jeff harrington
Joined: Nov 08, 2003 Posts: 84 Location: Brooklyn
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 3:31 pm Post subject:
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electro80 - beginners will always have problems, but the ability for me to play an octave here and there is far more important!!!
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elektro80
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 9:48 am Post subject:
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Well .... yeah... sure... the octave...!
My point is that the real essence of the these old instruments was a mix of their features and bugs. From my point of view these old creatures were instruments in the own right and could be mastered pretty well. The special playing skills that each of these thingies demanded is a set of skills that .. well.. will be lost. Like.. many of the "duophonic" monosynths would play amazingly different. A lot of my music is written for specific old synths and the notation does not make any sense if the matererial is played on.. "the polka workstation from hell" or a softsynth clone.
I am just making a point about the essence of instruments.. I am all for the softsynths. _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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themoors
Joined: Dec 15, 2003 Posts: 148 Location: northern england
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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 12:47 am Post subject:
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Hmm, im not sure we really need another virtual analogue vsti, the market is kind of overcrowed as it is, it might apeal to fans of the original model but then why would you want a software version when you have the real thing? |
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elektro80
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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 6:44 am Post subject:
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I will not argue either way, but personally I would love even more of these. I am hoping someone will issue a softclone of the Octave Instruments CAT2. The originals were pretty OK, but they all had serious issues. If you check out some oild threads here, you will see that even Howard is pretty sceptical about his old Moog Modular.. which he bought way back when it was new. In many ways the softclones are improvements. _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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paul e.
Joined: Sep 22, 2003 Posts: 1567 Location: toronto, canada
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject:
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elektro 80 ---
i installed impOSCar in os 9 a few days ago
OH MY OH MY |
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elektro80
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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 1:01 am Post subject:
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Well, the original was quite fun! Any modern and decent softclone woulld of course be just as fun. _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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