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Lio 21 hours ago

This is the oddest statement I've read in a while.

How is there "no musical value in a polyphonic analogue synthesizer"?

There's a lot of unique music written using polyphonic analogue synths. Enough that people clearly like the sounds of subtractive synthesis. If they were only used just to playback tracks written in the 70s, 80s and 90s then they would still have value.

The growth of cheap analogue synths proves it's not just collectors that appreciated the user interface and the sound. There's a legion of people buying Bass Stations, Korgs, Moogs, Behrigners and Eurorack.

If Yamaha could reproduce a modern analogue GX-1 or CS-80 recreation I bet they would get snapped up too.

otabdeveloper4 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sorry, I can't make any sense of your comment.

"Polyphonic analogue synth" means several independent envelope generators and VCFs.

Doing this is pointless -- it increases your synth's costs by orders of magnitude and provides no musical benefit whatsoever except make it slightly easier for piano players with no synthesizer experience to play it.

> The growth of cheap analogue synths

Yes, but literally none of them are doing analogue polyphony. The entire idea is just massively stupid and makes no sense in the 21st century.

Lio 14 hours ago | parent [-]

What is it that you don't understand?

> Yes, but literally none of them are doing analogue polyphony.

That's simply not true.

Korg Minilogue, Mililogue XD, Prologue, Behringer Pro-800, Sequential Take 5, Prophet Rev2, Prophet-10, Arturia PolyBrute 12, Oberheim OB-X8, Moog One and many more.

Polyphonic analogue synths are popular and very useful actually.

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