On 03/11/2012 07:56 AM, James Stone wrote:
>
> On Mar 11, 2012 12:19 AM, "Jostein Chr. Andersen" <jostein@email-addr-hidden
> <mailto:jostein@email-addr-hidden>> wrote:
> >
> > Reply to All / Reply to List
> > On Sunday 11 March 2012 00.26.25 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > > I realize that nothing is like the real thing, but hope that i can
> > > > find something that's close enough, or even better.
> > >
> > > Google for survival kits and CEM/Curtis chips. If you just wish to get
> > > the sounds characteristics of some vintage synth and you should be
> > > willing to use Apple or Microsoft, than you'll find some proprietary
> > > soft synth there. I dunno if they will do something similar to the
> > > sound you need from the JX-8P. If you need the full CEM sound quality,
> > > than you definitively get stuck.
> >
> > To late for my JX. First, every 8th (or was it 12th?) keys was stopping
> > to produce sound (but they still sended MIDI signals), so I was able to
> > use it as a MIDI controller (one of the best keyboards I ever used) and
> > use another MIDI controller for triggering the jx-sounds. Then I could
> > not do program changes, and then it stopped to make sounds - all this
> > within two weeks.
> >
> > It does exist some Juno SW synths for MS Windows and Mac, but I won't use
> > it. I'm usually pragmatic and do use both Mac and Windows for work (Linux
> > is still main OS there also), but here, I run native Linux on everything
> > and don't want to run another OS in my studio.
> >
> > > Better? If you expect something completely new, than yes, you might
> > > find something better, but if you expect something that sounds like
> > > vintage synth, than all soft synth are less good, far away from the
> > > originals.
> >
> > Well, I think I might try to get a new one again but also consider to see
> > if I can make amSynt or even take my time to learn Yoshimi and see if it
> > can do the job.
> >
>
> Have you tried Whysynth? It's pretty nice and somewhat underused.
>
> James
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