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request: i was wondering if someone could long-term loan me a Prophet VS? the rack one. like most of my threads, the genesis of "request: Prophet VS" is complex. it requires a gilgamesh tunnel of peter molyneux to get to the point, but after i repeatedly delete everything i've written five or six times, i do start to get there |
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i had to sell my Prophet VS, and i miss it terribly. it was the first "real" synth i bought. i found out about the VS after reading it was one of the three synths reznor used on pretty hate machine -- along with a minimoog and an xpander (and an emulator II [but that's not a synth{peter polyneux}]). the intro to "that's what i get" is all VS. the round bassy noise at the start; lovely... but the second? it sounds like peeling paint. bendy. curly. corners of it peeling up. broken, distressed. my best bit of kit at the time was a Korg X5D (64-poly rompler with expensive piano noises). the X5D wants to do backup keys for a weekend jazz band at the bug jar. i wanted a synth that i could make new noises on, not just pick from a library of nice ones. i almost bought a korg ms2000, because it was cheap and i had a ball with it in guitar center. but, no... instead, i drop five or six times as much on some oddball vintage thing that was literally as old as i was. in retrospect, it was poorly-thought out, bordering on idiotic. i didn't even understand subtractive synthesis yet (lol). programming it stumped me immediately. i got better. |
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i was driving, tonight. singing loudly to pretty hate machine. terrible lie comes on. we get to the part at the end, "i want so much to believe," bababahboop, bah, bahboop. distorted. is it VS? it could be the moog; i've no idea, but i know i could do that noise on th VS... i thought to myself: oh, yes, get that noise from terrible lie programmed in, then do a split keyboard patch with the first noise in that's what i get, and that would be perfect to mash on while i'm singing. which i still am, as i'm thinking this. out of that, i get a great idea for a dual layer patch. combine these bits in this way, yes, then i can sing and mash to it wonderfully! and i haven't ever done this thing before! it's a new technique! omg omg! i gotta try tha- then, reality returns. the singing stopped at some point as synths took over; i notice this first. next: oh, fuck, i sold my VS like . goddamn it. the bottom line is this: i haven't laid fingers on a Prophet VS for over two years, and i'm coming up with patch ideas in my car at 1am, and it annoys the living fuck out of me that i cannot actually go try my idea out. it's like having athelete's foot sealed inside a cast. itch i cannot scratch. help. |
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it's not all bad, though. if i had to summarize why i was forced to sell my gear off, it's because i spent so much time using it that the rest of my life went to crap. a few things went wrong, domino cascade, i had to bail myself out. yes, this is the Prophet VS we're talking about, but even my inept sense of adult things can see that the car is more important than the synths. so i kept the car, sold the synths. the real crisis was over a while ago. now it's about cleaning up the mess: paying down the visa. getting my living situation stabilized. buying the stuff i put off buying, like clothes. it will be a long while until i can find the cash for another Prophet VS.... my next thought is what caused this thread: heck, russeldust is repeatedly attempting to send a hundred quid to freqy's parody email address, maybe someone has one lying around. "oh, yes, it's the secondary tour backup, and we're not boring until april..." |
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give up on her and get an fm synth instead korg ds 8 or yamaha v50 for cheap |
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there's one prophet vs for sale on ebay £3000 damn suckas |
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re: #02505566: this does not solve my core problem: i keep getting ideas for Prophet VS patches, then i remember i sold mine two years ago, and it's like a dream about someone that died. except, i had the keyboard version, and they bend and flex and wiggle, and as this is a loaner, well, a rack is much more managable. but, yes, that dead pet you just had a dream about? oh, just log onto ebay re: #02505567: there's always one of something for sale on ebay for 3x the price in case someone has an itchy trigger finger. the remaining stock are slowly doled out in a waltz between competing sellers -- oh, two are for sale now; i'll hang onto mine so the price one dilute. then someone else unloads five and, fuck.... but, bottom line, that seems about 3x too much. especially if it's the keyboard, and not the rack. i'm not sure why the rack costs more. rarer? i think so. more convenient? definitely. not wiggly? unknown. so, alright, i have a bit of an idea why it costs more |
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is korg wavestation similar? |
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yes. the korg legacy collection powered a lot of my VST music, and one of those is wavestation, so i know it somewhat... but not deeply enough to give it a proper rating. general impression that it's a lot more towards the nice-piano-sounds end of the spectrum, vs. the prophet's abstract tone paintings. one thing's for sure -- if you're trying to swap them on me, no dice. no substitute will scratch the itch. it's been two years since i sold my prophet, right? and i'm coming up with cool patch ideas and getting super amped about trying it out. then i remember: oh, yeah. i don't have that anymore. you'll note i haven't even said i want to make music. i'd probably get to that, but what i want more than anything is to sit down with some cans and try out my patch ideas on a rack VS. and i can't try out my prophet VS patches on a DS-8-OR or a Wavestation Similar or a v50.4-cheap. i'm not really expecting someone to up and ship me one. i'd give it one out of ten. then, perhaps by 2020, i'll have one again, and i can pull up this thread, skim it, and: oh yeah! the patch idea i had last night will come right back to me. so this thread is pretty much just expanded patch memory with a bit of hope |
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