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From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.

bManic ·

Dear fellow synthesis enthusiasts and beginners too,

First of all, great work Jorg! It's nice to have a forum available for discussion and questions.

A little about myself:

I'm a 25 year old guy living in Finland. I study music technology at Center of Music & Technology here in Helsinki, the capital (cmt.siba.fi check it out!). I first got to grips with synths when I happened to venture into a music store that was selling Kurzweil synths. The K2000 model was the one that caught my eye. It was at v. 1.0 OS back then but still did tons of things! I've been hooked ever since. I could never afford one, still can't, even though they do go cheap now on second hand markets. Bought myself a Roland XP-50 instead a couple of years later. It's a pretty simple architecture compared to the K2000 but deep enough to teach me a thing or two about synthesis.

I'm all software today. I still use the Xp-50 but only as a keyboard controller. I've always been fashinated about filters but never had the patience to start learning C++ or any other programming language (though I have to it seems, in the school.. 🙄 ). Anyways, I find it extremely exciting that synthmaker offers a true 1 sample feedback path. I'll finally be able to try out all those filter schematics and coefficients and blow out a couple of more headphones (blown 2 pairs while fooling around in Reaktor and a speaker cone too!) 😆

Give synthmaker a try, it's immensely powerful but has a extremely nice GUI and works quite logically IMHO. Even the simple default patch/ensemble/schematic (??) can be tweaked in a matter of seconds for some extremely weird and nice noises (feedback everything into everything hehe.. keep monitoring levels down though!!).

I just wanted to let everybody who reads this to know that it's not as hard as it seems, to get some stuff going. Jorg is also extremely quick to answer any questions so go on, bombard him with questions 😈 .

Cheers! bManic

PS. I have nothing to do with Outsim, I'm just a normal guy that feel like Synthmaker could be 'the next big thing' if it is given even half a chance, so lets give it that, ok? 😀 I'm off to the wilderness now. I'll be back on tuesday! Take care all!

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