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V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:39 pm

Another good character synth is VirtualCZ

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:51 pm

A lot of synths have 'character'. Character that can please Mr x or y is a different thing though.

garryknight · Post by **garryknight** » Wed Feb 10, 2016 11:14 pm

Lotuzia wrote:A lot of synths have 'character'. Character that can please Mr x or y is a different thing though.

Oh, those guys! So hard to please...

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Wed Feb 10, 2016 11:36 pm

A couple others I just thought of are Helix and Syn'X 2

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Wed Feb 10, 2016 11:47 pm

Lotuzia wrote:A lot of synths have 'character'. Character that can please Mr x or y is a different thing though.

What about synths with character, that don't please anybody?

This guy has the kind of character which is sure to piss everyone off...

Sounds can be found here

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:07 am

FutureRetro 777
Korg Monotron Delay
Korg Volca Keys
Korg MS-20
Any modular

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 1:38 am

HW: 1st choice - Arturia Origin -

2nd choice - John Bowen's Solaris -

SW: 1st choice - Spire; 2nd choice - Harmor

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 1:54 am

justin3am wrote:What about synths with character, that don't please anybody?
This guy has the kind of character which is sure to piss everyone off...

Sounds can be found here

Cool stuff!

Reminds me of times that I used to spend playing with a shortwave radio - the one I had was outfitted with SSB (single side band) which could really create some crazy listening -

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 2:23 am

goldenanalog wrote:
justin3am wrote:What about synths with character, that don't please anybody?
This guy has the kind of character which is sure to piss everyone off...

Sounds can be found here
Cool stuff!

Reminds me of times that I used to spend playing with a shortwave radio - the one I had was outfitted with SSB (single side band) which could really create some crazy listening -

I just picked up an old shortwave radio with an analog tuner just to get interesting noises.

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 2:44 am

deastman wrote:I just picked up an old shortwave radio with an analog tuner just to get interesting noises.

here's something that you might be interested in, deastman:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_radio

If you scroll down, there's a section of the article titled: 'Shortwave broadcasts and music' -

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 3:42 am

goldenanalog wrote: Reminds me of times that I used to spend playing with a shortwave radio - the one I had was outfitted with SSB (single side band) which could really create some crazy listening -

But that begs the question... what shortwave tuner/reciever has the most character?
My neighbor is a ham radio enthusiast.. so obviously, an old dude. I was trying to talk to him about a voltage (possibly MIDI) controlled tuner and he looked at me like he had seen something crazy. Then he said when he was in college, he and his friends used to drop acid and scan through the noise on his dad's radio. It was pretty funny, he was totally embarrassed after he said that. My neighbors are rad.

MogwaiBoy · Post by **MogwaiBoy** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:09 am

rod_zero wrote: Razor quite a bit,

Razor for sure - almost unmistakable.

EnGee · Post by **EnGee** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:41 am

justin3am wrote:
goldenanalog wrote: Reminds me of times that I used to spend playing with a shortwave radio - the one I had was outfitted with SSB (single side band) which could really create some crazy listening -
But that begs the question... what shortwave tuner/reciever has the most character?
My neighbor is a ham radio enthusiast.. so obviously, an old dude. I was trying to talk to him about a voltage (possibly MIDI) controlled tuner and he looked at me like he had seen something crazy. Then he said when he was in college, he and his friends used to drop acid and scan through the noise on his dad's radio. It was pretty funny, he was totally embarrassed after he said that. My neighbors are rad.

I loved our old Philips radio (I found image of it!). I spent long nights with it when I was a kid! So many 'blips and bleeps', and very organic ones as well! All those foreign languages I was trying to guess. So different melodies all over the world with my kid's imagination and the blips effect

Wonderful time!
The distorted speak and how it goes and comes (wonderful effects!). It was even more organic than Mini Moog

I don't know what happened to it? I think my mother donated it when we had the new FM National Panasonic one later!

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 6:43 am

For me there are two kinds of "character". Some synths make commonly used sounds with a special flavour. Like Sylenth. It is very basic synth and lots of people consider it boring, but when you make a 303-like sequence, or a plucky synth part, the sound is full of attitude, like "hey, I am Sylenth and I do sound good". Same with Spire. But the same sounds made by certain other (very versatile and very popular) synths sound like yet another 303 sequence and yet another plucky synth.

Other kind of "character" synths are those which make deliberately unusual and recognizable sounds - for me that's Razor, Absynth, Kontour. I don't always need them bot when I do, nothing can replace them.

Z3ta is kinda in between. You can make bread and butter sounds with it but the sound always has some special lo-fi flavour which may be lovely but doesn't fit evetything.

trimph1 · Post by **trimph1** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:35 am

justin3am wrote:
Lotuzia wrote:A lot of synths have 'character'. Character that can please Mr x or y is a different thing though.
What about synths with character, that don't please anybody?
This guy has the kind of character which is sure to piss everyone off...

Sounds can be found here

Ppfffeeeeeegh. Doesn't make me PO'ed. I kind of like twisted sounds.

Synths loaded with CHARACTER - what's yours?