t_tangent wrote:
Bud Weiser, interesting to hear that you have met Wolfgang Palm,
Well, we know us from the past when I was a student and he himself started designing and building synths.
When I had pro work, I bought a PPG 1002 and then the follow up 1020 analog synths from his "Keyboardfachgeschäft" which was the keyboard shop he ran to make money.
I also bought my 1st Minimoog D from his shop and all that was somewhere late 70s and early 80s.
Wolfgang was a musician too.
When Wolfgang had his larger factory manufacturing the "PPG Sonic Carrier", the PPG WAVE series of wavetable synths and the Waveterm and processor keyboard etc., I was already a touring artist and lost contact for a long time.
Then and out of the blue, we met again at a "Colosseum" concert recognizing we lived in neighborhood.
But suddenly
he moved.
But in 2012, we met in my old home-studio.
In 2015 and before
I moved, we met again and he asked me doing some demos for his new "PPG Phonem", but I was already busy careing for old parents and getting out of my house which was time consuming.
Unfortunately there wasn´t enough time learning and understanding that synth´s quickly improving beta versions and doing some recordings.
t_tangent wrote:
... and his comments do make a lot of sense from a practical point of view, but after having acquired 1 or 2 hardware synths over the years, (in part due to some of Dawman's suggestions on the forum from several years back) it certainly is nice to have the option to use those along side Scope's synths, as well as a few select vsti's on the DAW.
Well, I still have most of my old hardware and when I leaved my former house, it was all in working condition.
I too like using all together,- hardware, DSP stuff and native software.
But now it´s in stock since 8 month and I expect issues when setting all up again, at least empty batteries and lost memory content.
I don´t have sysex backups for every piece of hardware, there was not enough time to do it.
I also know devices might blow when powering up for the 1st time after a longer time of no use.
Servicing old gear is time consuming and expensive, modding too ...
It´s a matter of age, but there comes the day lifetime becomes more important than ever before and lots of (old) gear might appear more as a burden than fun.
t_tangent wrote:
And yes some of those iOS devices are excellent, such as iVCS3, TC-11, etc. I would like to try Moog's Model 15 but it wont run on my old iPad 3. Oh well, maybe another time.
I don´t even own an iPad or smartphone ...
Just only a little cellphone to be available when I´m out of the house.
But
WHEN I had a iPad, MOOG Animoog and Wolfgang´s PPG apps would be my 1st choice.
My DAWs are socket 775 and Win XP and I´ll be probably the last human being upgrading to Win7 when Win 11 comes out.
Yep, I have a licence but didn´t install up to now.
I keep my old machines for my SCOPE card,- I think it was called Power Pulsar (15DSPs) or SCOPE Pro,- can´t remember, ... and for XITE-1.
I still hope for SCOPE 6 !
Well, I´m an old fart and I can dream ...
Bud