Gear lust

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Did just get a V-verb shipped for $86. That is my nice reverb.

Am dealing with the Virus. Never even came close to tapping this fucker.

I picked up a Lexicon MX200 for peanuts recently. Wanna say 110 out the door. Nothings special, but a workhorse. Also, can connect the MX series to your DAW via USB. Great 1U units...dual mono, parallel and serial stereo configurations. Nice front panel access. Bread and butter FX and Lexicon quality.

[nowaysj]

Okay, just won a ax60 for $505 shipped. Total lark. Someone please tell me I didn't just majorly overpay?

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Okay, just won a ax60 for $505 shipped. Total lark. Someone please tell me I didn't just majorly overpay?

Honestly. I have no idea. I don't often here people talk about the Akai analogs, but have been curious myself.

[cyclopian]

Did just get a V-verb shipped for $86. That is my nice reverb.

Am dealing with the Virus. Never even came close to tapping this fucker.

I picked up a Lexicon MX200 for peanuts recently. Wanna say 110 out the door. Nothings special, but a workhorse. Also, can connect the MX series to your DAW via USB. Great 1U units...dual mono, parallel and serial stereo configurations. Nice front panel access. Bread and butter FX and Lexicon quality.

Does the usb connection have audio in/out? or is it just for controlling the hardware via your daw?

(forgive me if this is a stupid question, I know next to nothing about outboard effects)

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Did just get a V-verb shipped for $86. That is my nice reverb.

Am dealing with the Virus. Never even came close to tapping this fucker.

I picked up a Lexicon MX200 for peanuts recently. Wanna say 110 out the door. Nothings special, but a workhorse. Also, can connect the MX series to your DAW via USB. Great 1U units...dual mono, parallel and serial stereo configurations. Nice front panel access. Bread and butter FX and Lexicon quality.

Does the usb connection have audio in/out? or is it just for controlling the hardware via your daw?

(forgive me if this is a stupid question, I know next to nothing about outboard effects)

Oh no, the USB lets you use it as an in-DAW FX Unit. Works like UAD essentially. DSP. : ) So yea. USB audio I/O I don't know if this is a typical feature or not for hardware FX units. I would say not.

[nowaysj]

What is the latency like?

[nowaysj]

Okay, just won a ax60 for $505 shipped. Total lark. Someone please tell me I didn't just majorly overpay?

Nah okay price, high shipping... $50. Auction closed for $455

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What is the latency like?

Dunno. Haven't set it up yet.

[mks]

Lexicon MX's are nice. I have been using a MX-100 for years. I use it as an external effects send in Live. A MX-200 with usb would be awesome though.

They are cheap, and you get the Lexicon reverbs. I have preferred this to many of the vst reverbs I have heard.

[mks]

Oh, okay, thats what I was asking. Dope sequencer in a mixed studio. But if you've got only midi gear, not so great. What are you going to control via CV?

What about Maschine as your main sequencer for outboard gear, thoughts frag? Anyone else?

I'm going to try a setup with the tenori as master seq. But that things midi timing is LOOSE. At least it starts really late. Was trying to seq from flstudio, and that thing was starting like really really late. Unusably late.

For the kind of music that I sometimes make (Electro Bass), a dedicated hardware step sequencer for both midi and cv will be dope. The cv devices I currently have is limited to a Yamaha CS-5, a Novation BassStation Rack and a Big Briar (Moog) LowPass Filter MoogerFooger. Soon a Korg MS-20mini will be up in the mix.

If I needed more midi tracks and be completely otb, I would dig out my old Alesis MMT-8 or I would acquire a MPC.

OK, so all of this has gotten me thinking about outboard sequencers again. Like, what if I did just ditch the computer for awhile. So how do you guys like the MPC for sequencing otb? Is the Maschine good for that? I have a couple of other things I'm checking out.

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Maschine is a beast for midi sequencing. Also easy enough to hook uo a keyaboard to it to record your melodic harmonic bits....Trigger Finger Pro...iPad...all great...happy to say more later about n e of those...got long day tomorrow. ..off to sleep

[cyclopian]

Did just get a V-verb shipped for $86. That is my nice reverb.

Am dealing with the Virus. Never even came close to tapping this fucker.

I picked up a Lexicon MX200 for peanuts recently. Wanna say 110 out the door. Nothings special, but a workhorse. Also, can connect the MX series to your DAW via USB. Great 1U units...dual mono, parallel and serial stereo configurations. Nice front panel access. Bread and butter FX and Lexicon quality.

Does the usb connection have audio in/out? or is it just for controlling the hardware via your daw?

(forgive me if this is a stupid question, I know next to nothing about outboard effects)

Oh no, the USB lets you use it as an in-DAW FX Unit. Works like UAD essentially. DSP. : ) So yea. USB audio I/O I don't know if this is a typical feature or not for hardware FX units. I would say not.

awesome, thanks for the info. This is sounding pretty tempting because I don't have to upgrade my soundcard quite yet for another I/O dedicated to a reverb. Will look more into these units. Thanks again.

[mks]

Do you guys want a JV-1080? These are seriously good synths. This is a deal.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Roland-Super-JV ... 1681&rt=nc

[nowaysj]

No expansion, though?

[mks]

Dude, $160 without expansion is worth it. These things are fully capable on their own. The expansion cards just bring on the extra. A lot of EXTRA EXTRA.

[AxeD]

Did just get a V-verb shipped for $86. That is my nice reverb.

Am dealing with the Virus. Never even came close to tapping this fucker.

I picked up a Lexicon MX200 for peanuts recently. Wanna say 110 out the door. Nothings special, but a workhorse. Also, can connect the MX series to your DAW via USB. Great 1U units...dual mono, parallel and serial stereo configurations. Nice front panel access. Bread and butter FX and Lexicon quality.

Does the usb connection have audio in/out? or is it just for controlling the hardware via your daw?

(forgive me if this is a stupid question, I know next to nothing about outboard effects)

Oh no, the USB lets you use it as an in-DAW FX Unit. Works like UAD essentially. DSP. : ) So yea. USB audio I/O I don't know if this is a typical feature or not for hardware FX units. I would say not.

But if you have a big interface/patchbay, you can just drag and drop your outboard FX
like inserts anyway right? You would wan't your computer to do that extra signal processing.

[nowaysj]

Dude. Check this fucking video out. I'm in synthesizer wet dream land.



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MKS - I've no experience sequencing eternal gear with maschine. Something I'm going to be looking into. But of course, you will be back on the computer there...

I'm going to see about making my mc-909 my brain. (Also has some of those jv sounds, as far as I can tell.

[mks]

The MC-909 will work great as a sequencer. And it does have the XV synthesis engine built it, so it will have those JV sounds.

[nowaysj]

The MC-909 will work great as a sequencer. And it does have the XV synthesis engine built it, so it will have those JV sounds.

Yeah, dug it out the other day, had a real fun session with it. I never got into it. I did use it, even did some pro sound design with it, but never REALLY got into it.

I think it will be my brain!

[nowaysj]

Random thoughts it the gear lust thread: The virus is a synthesizer of synthesizers. The old synths tried to synthesize other real world instruments. VA's like viruses attempt to synthesize the sounds of those old synthesizers...

That'll be a dollar from each of you. THX!