Hi

I am lucky to be sitting with a rather knackered but still working (borrowed) EMS VCS3. Its a synth I've wanted to get my hands on for a long time and i must say its no disapointment. the sound is incredible and the interface, for me, is by far the friendliest I ever had on a modular. I love the high resolution VCO pots, the crazy trapezoid envelope, the no-patch-leads, the way it can create distortion all over the place...

and this is my question. I know analogue solutions make the filter and trapezoid and i know some kind of pin matrix is coming soon, but I wonder if anyone has found doepfer or other modules which replicate the ways the VCS3 mixers and gain stages overdrive and saturate... it seems to me that is a big part of what brings about the signature sound of the EMS.... more so than the filter for example. I am using moogerfoogers a lot these days and this has showed me that very good quality gain stages and mixers which create a beautiful controllable timbre are a huge part of what is missing from modern synth designs.

Of course I know getting a VCS3 is the best solution... its tail chasing to try to replicate the sound of one synth with another, but they become so rare and expensive these days

Maybe an overdriving mixer with germanium could even be a nice idea for a module


Richard

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