Ready to tweak some analog hardware?

[Jay Vaughan]

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> So much so that people have been calling the monotribe the modern 303 (overreaching) at the same time Roland is taking another classic product line in the wrong direction (imo.)


I was heartened by their MC505 effort, but disdain and disgust soon followed with Fantom.  I know people love that sort of thing, but for me it was a very, very big meh.

The return to comfortable, portable /real/ electronics in musical-instruments is a very important thing, imho.  

"Big Corporate Keyboard Co's" all have a huge 'landfill' debt, in that there are a lot of dusty old pieces of crap keyboards out there, chucked away or otherwise disused, because the User Interface didn't stand the test of time.

But the modular, electronic, synth makers very rarely end up in this theoretical collecting-dust/landfill zone, imho, and the reason is that they are more immediately usable, and user-oriented.

*On the other hand*, I could see a situation where someone just decides that the Monotribe is a piece of junk, they've out-grown it, and after looking at it on a shelf for a long period of time, they just bin it.

What a precarious deal it is to price components and calculate profit on the basis of such mechanics!


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Jay Vaughan