Quelqu'un connait.?

Citation : vu qu'il ya pas de distributeurs francais

Citation : je choisirais plutôt le système 100 de Doepfer en 12 U, c'est à dire l'intégral!

Citation : Pour finir si certains,comme cela à déjà été le cas, doute de mon avis

Citation : que de souffrance on devine derrière ces mots !

Citation : the distortion, they call it "overdrive" and it has the sound you'd
associate with that word, as for instance on an overdriven Rhodes, rather
than "distortion" which is more like a fuzzbox. And as opposed to
overdriving the A6's filters, which is a thin unpleasant sound to my ears,
overdriving the S1's mixer ins sounds ripe and full.

I don't find the knobs too small by any means. I'm never in danger of
snagging or brushing an adjacent one. All the hardware is very
solid-feeling as well.

And yes, there's an external audio input and a gate output. You could also
process audio from your modular through the S1 if the muse struck, or
modulate parts of the S1 with your analog sequencer or whatever.


The panel is clickable for explainations of the jacks' and knobs' functions.

--Chuck

Citation : Taking the questions in turn, some (maybe too many) comments on the Cwejman
S1 Mk2.

How does [the Cwejman] sound?
Tremendous, in my opinion. And yes, I'd say it has its own character. I
find it comparatively easy on the Cwejman to get sounds with a nice little
edge of tartness, as for instance in the lead sound in the "dog" demo. I'm
only just getting my feet wet with the instrument so there's a lot I can't
quantify as yet.

Its range benefits a lot from having two filters -- one lowpass/bandpass,
one multimode -- with switch-variable slopes and able to run serial or
parallel. The lead sound in "dog" for instance was done with the filters in
serial -- highpass on filter 2 feeding a lowpass on filter 1, the bandwidth
changing over the EG cycle because of differing mod index settings. That
patch makes for a pretty tart and snappy sound, almost guitarlike in lower
registers.

I've made some very fat and aggressive bass sounds, done some very ripping
sync, some very dense FM, as well as some simple one-VCO sounds that can
sound as good as about anything of the type I can think of. The ring mod
seems to give an unusually high ratio of good results. All the mixer inputs
can be overdriven between the 8 and 10 marks, which can really kick the
stuffing out of things. There's also an overdrive circuit that can be
dialed in at the output, but I haven't been in need of it to thicken
anything up. It can be either quite clean as in the first sound in
"pseudo-pumptiness" or rougher as in the solo sound that comes in later.

The fact that it's semimodular means that you can, say, control the volume
of one of the oscillators via MIDI note number, patch EGs to VCOs or LFO
speed, run sends to other equipment, and other modular fun.

I can't compare its sound with a Voyager's, but a Voyager is unique and this
won't be a substitute for one. You'd probably find a Voyager rounder in
character and it would take you right back to all your favorite Moog
basslines and solos. And hey, a Voyager saves patches, this doesn't. The
Cwejman isn't Moogy-sounding, but that to me is one of its advantages -- not
that I don't like Moogy sound, but I'd like to be in different territory.

It's a different beast from a 2600 as well. The individual FM sliders on
the 2600 are great and the Cwejman doesn't emulate that all the way. The
Cwejman isn't quite as modularlike. Also no modular-style voltage
processors and electronic switch, no reverb, no panning. On the other hand,
the Cwejman has two VC DADSRs, two filters, etc.

How's the interface?
I don't think I've ever seen better or more craftily thought-through. Once
you get to know where things are it's completely intuitive. This isn't one
of those frustrating interfaces -- quite the opposite. It has a lot of
parameters, so you're not going to be able to patch it quite as fast as a
Micromoog, but it's about equally straightforward. There's an amazing
density of function, and I like that.

It really is a warm and great-sounding synth.


--Chuck

Hors sujet : Après tout, on a aussi le droit au parti pris On aime son synthé, surtout quand c'est un S1 et on défend sa réputation; pourquoi vouloir gommer cette relation affective, quasi charnelle, sans laquelle on ne saurait en tirer le meilleur parti ? Oui mon synthé est le meilleur, parce que je l'aime! Et pourquoi pas ?

Citation : D'accord pour tous ces arguments, mais le M5 est stereo, pas le S1, ça fait une certaine différence...