hello pierre,
couldn't agree more with you!
i also have a technosaurus selector system-D that
costs a lot of money, but my doepfer a100 with it's
million of possibilities is still my favourite, if i
had to choose one of them only.
of course, i also like the technosaurus fat sound, but
it hasn't the limitless potential of my a100! also the
doepfer a100 has NOT a lesser or thinner sound than my
more expensive technosaurus selector. it just has a
DIFFERENT sound!
i think that the doepfer a100 plus the AS
rs-integrator are both great modulars regarding value
for money and sound and size!
bakis.





--- Pierre Zeeman < pierrezee@... > wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >(I basically want an excuse not to buy the voyager)
>
> I have both but I bought the voyager after I already
> had a 12U doepfer+AS
> system. One of the reasons why I bought it was to
> use as a controller for
> my modular. The value of the voyager increases
> greatly if you have a
> modular synth because you can then fully utilise all
> of its cv ins and outs
> (there is always a forest of patch leads running
> from the voyager to the
> modular :D). Make no mistake, it's a lovely
> sounding instrument but it is
> limited and if you're a tweaker you will ultimately
> become frustrated with a
> voyager on its own as there are only so many sounds
> you can make with a
> fixed osc->filter->vca architecture. If I had to
> choose, I would go for the
> doepfer. The doepfer can cover almost all the
> ground the voyager can and
> then go far beyond it. Admittedly the doepfer
> doesn't have that moogy
> thing, but then that thing has been beaten to death
> over the last 30 years.
> Not surprisingly, what I like most about the voyager
> is that it has its own
> sound, quite different to its forebears (although it
> does the moog sound
> well enough if you're so inclined to want it). I am
> very glad I have both -
> they play very nicely together.
>
> As for the choice of modular, doepfer would actually
> be my first choice even
> if I had a lot more money simply because of the
> small size (dotcom and motm
> get huge very, very quickly) and the massive and
> amazing range of modules
> offered. Plus, they interoperate with the other
> eurorack and fracrack
> modulars (both blacet and wiard make lovely modules)
> and Paul Schreiber of
> MOTM is apparently toying with the idea of releasing
> his modules in doepfer
> format as well so the range of possibilities is only
> going to increase.
>
> Some many choices, so little cash :)
>
> rds
>
> Pierre
>
>

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Bakis Siros
Parallel Worlds / Polariton
Athens-Greece
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http://www.shimarecords.co.uk
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