New DSI Synth - Mopho x4

[Tony Scharf]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:40 AM, punkdISCO <forums at punkdisco.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I understand what you are saying but, in the case of DSI I don’t think this accounts of the fact that their sound does not grab me.  If I program a vanilla sound on the PEK using only the front panel (so very simple interface) I find the general tonal quality not of my liking.  So, nothing to do with the complexity of the interface.  I actually think DSI interfaces are very well designed and very simple, especially if you ignore the secondary facilities like the sequencer.
>

Well, there you go.  The engine of the PEK is not tuned to vanilla
sounds. Everything from I have learned in the years I have had mine (8
or 9 years I think?  wow...) is that it sucks at doing the usual.  I
can occassionally get very good string pads out of it or bass sounds,
but in general..no. The synth engine actually *sounds* bored doing
those.   Its a textural synthesizer.  I'd say most of the time I use
it, I just leave the VCA open and play the front panel as if it were a
modular pure analog.  I rarely even other with presets.  When I do try
to use it as a regular synth, it rarely works out.

> Conversely, if I repeat the exercise on my MKS80 using identical sound components/complexity, it is almost impossible to get a bad sound out of it..
>

the MKS80 was tuned to make strong bases, strings, etc.  It's not
going to do the kind of thing I do with the PEK well at all (not
nearly enough modulation sources for one).

> So yes, complexity of a synth does affect the results we get out of it but, in the case of DSI, I think it has an overall tone that some people love/some people dislike..
>

I can agree with that to some extent.  I think it comes from a
misunderstanding of this particular synth.  I think, actually, the PEK
gets more grief than the Evolver does simply because the PEK has a
keyboard and knobs and people want to compare it to Prophet 5 or a
Moog.  Dave Smith has even stated his goal was not to recreate the
past but to create something different.

Tony

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