Hé Synthfreak,

I'm not going to say told you so. But, cause I didn't know any other synths with orange lights, immediately when I turned the power on, I saw those fascinating orange lights. Everytime I switch on my machine, I'll stare at the those ultra brigth orange lights. I'm real proud there are orange.
Have you see that Doepfer has made a blue series, yes real blue lights! Not the Doepfer, but the Maq 16/3, Regelwerk and Schaltwerk! Looks really cool. The Selector from Switserland has also blue lights. In fact blue and green. I think the Selector looks really cool (of course when you have a big one, like Bernd Kistenmacher has), with that black-dark blue tiger motiv and then those yello patchcords, which really contrasts with the other colours. If I had the money, the Selector would certainly be an option!
But I have my Doepfer and I'm really satisfied with it.
Talking about something else, I hear you have the Mono/poly. I lingered a while buy one, but since I have the MS20 I thought, it would be pointless to have a machine with almost the same options. I know the Mono/poly has some great tricks on it's sleeve.
I never forget 1989, the second klem day (festival in The Netherlands which brought live em from 1988. Sadly, it doesn't exist anymore! But on that second edition I sad on the front row and before me sat Bernd behind his Monopoly, beside others. Further behind impressive walls of modular (Roland 100m). Bernd makes Schulze-esque cosmic electronic, although I has style of his own. The came these vast, thick deep synth soudns, layer upon layer. And he than in trance played over it a slow evolving solo on the Monopoly. Huge bass sound! It was so impressive to see his face so upclose, totally sunken in the music!
Now comes the odd thing and a question for you. I've heard many people saying that the bass of a Monopoly is Korg like thin. That's strange, cause the sound as I said sounded huge!!!! Meaby he had driven through layers of effects to get it like this, but I don't believe that, cause it sound real pure, not drowned in effect. Very upfront. What's your oppinion Synthfreak on the power of the Monopoly and what other things do you do with it
By the way I don't have a A112. I think that module is too fancy for me. I don't need the sample in it, the wavetable osc could be interesting, but I haven't planned in a future expansion.

Roel.


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