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I got it today after shopping around a bit online and deciding it was the best, value for money and sound-wise. It's a Barbie by Bontempi, I don't see them discussed around here but I think it's great! It's really underrated. Its features are: 4 drum sounds - Snare drum - Hitting drumsticks together - Bass drum - Cowbell 15 voices - Piano - Marimba - Clarinet - Accordion - Flute - Guitar - Mandolin - Organ - Oboe (very BoC sounding sound) - Trumpet - Synth drum (confield esque) - Telephone (I will be using this to trick people) - Pearl Drop - Alarm - Space Runner (totally IDM) 7 rhythms - Rock - 16 beat - Rap - Techno - Latin - Twist - Waltz To show you its capabilities, I have uploaded the great demo song which you can listen to . I have also attached a picture so you know what it looks like. I can't wait to make some songs with this! Overall, the Barbie is a great synth, go and buy one today. |
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nice colour :) |
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that demo song is the bomb |
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do the also have a KEN version? |
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man, i love cheap synths. i use quite them a lot. my favorite synth is my Yamaha PSS-470, which i purchased for about $50 US at a pawn shop. All of the sounds have a Genesis/Megadrive/Nintendo quality to them, which is why I love it. It also has a Digital Synthesizer for making my own synths. It has six parts of customization for the regular voices, Wave, Spectrum, Modulation, Attack, Decay and Volume, each with five different levels. Other features include Sustain, Vibrato, Duet, Auto Bass Chords with about ten different modes, Pitch Shifter and Custom Drum Programming. (about an eight meter loop over a current drum loop) It is about under two feet long in length. Most of the melody from my recent music has utilized it. Voices Cosmic Popsynth Bluesynth Funksynth Slapsynth Jazz Organ Pipe Organ Clarinet Violin Flute Trumpet Horn Saxophone Oboe Music Box Piano Electric Piano Harpsichord Koto Jazz Guitar Vibes Rhythms Pops Disco 16 Beat Rock'n'Roll Country Latin Bossanova Reggae Big Band Slow Rock March/Polka Waltz Drums Kick Closed Hat Open Hat Snare Tom |
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don't forget the Casio VL-1 da da da |
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I like my Yamaha PSR-6 too. Real cheap, about the same price, but with 100 voices, all so old school and 8-bit sounding. |
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i'll have to see if i can try and get one of those. i wanna get hold of that synth that has the same sound chip as the commodore 64 computers, i think it's called the SIDstation or something. anyways, for now my good old Casio SK-1 will suffice |
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OH SHIT! THAT IS FUCKING RADD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to the fucking MAX! D00d! You're like R00d Dog! CHAKKA KHAN! |
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hahaha. awesome. |
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This thread is about the Bontempi Barbie. Please, I have no problem with the discussion of other synths, but this is not the place. So are there any other owners on the board? Tip: combine the Space Runner sound with the complex "16 beat" rhythm for a great Drukqs effect. |
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shush you i've had many threads go off topic, you're not immune! so, has anyone else got a habit of eating weird things? i like to eat powdered milk, horlicks, ovaltine, coffee whitener, drinking chocolate, and chocolate spread straight from the jar |
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I have a YAMAHA PSS-31 and a YAMAHA PSS-110 ! |
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i have a casio sk-1. |
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FUCKING IMPORTANT! |
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Wow, I've found the next version up from mine! It looks ace. Damn, if I had known about it I would have got this one. Oh well, I'm still happy with my choice. |
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has it got a vocoder???? |
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No, I think that's a water gun so you can spray your face if you get a bit worked up during a performance. |
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That's fucking Convenient. |
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can it be refilled with Lucozade, in case it's a really intensive performance? |
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I don't know, I guess the merits of spraying your face with Lucozade is not something the scientists at Bontempi have looked into. |
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i guess it would work...Lucozade has the same viscosity as water. i guess it'd be different if you wanted to spray grannies old treacle |
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Ha ha, no word of a lie, at a beach party I've just come home from, one of the guys had a super soaker water pistol filled with pina colada and was spraying at people. It fucking kills if it gets in your eyes (as it did to me)! Funniest was when he pressurised it as hard as he could, fired it point blank in his mate's mouth and the pressure made him retch and it came out his nose. |
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ha ha pina colada from nostrils must have an interesting quality to it |
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Ha ha ha ... horsefactory that shit rocks ! oscillik i have a sid station but its foooked :( the values on the knobs flicker from 0 to 100% , i paid big money for it when they first came out ....gutted..... out of waranty.. double gutted .. |
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awww shit :( it wasn't made by Apple by any chance was it? :p man that's fucked up, do you know how much it'd cost to get it sorted? |
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Im not sure mate , i know its got to go back to sweden and i dread to think how much the repair will cost , i dont have as much funding as i used to have :( |
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there must be some place in the UK that you can get it fixed at? i'm guessing that it's gonna cost a bit though :( i hope you can get it sorted out as soon as you can - i'm guessing that it will start to get more and more difficult to get them sorted.....are they discontinued now? |
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I will get it fixed as soon as i can and i will re-search places first ,but its a little down the list of my things to sort at the moment. : / I think they are discountinued because they ran out of the sound chips but dont quote me on that . |
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BEST looking synth EVER. |
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DO NOT DISCUSS OTHER SYNTHS IN THIS THREAD! IT IS TANTAMOUNT TO HERESY! |
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surely there is no synth that looks better!? |
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Funniest was when he pressurised it as hard as he could, fired it point blank in his mate's mouth and the pressure made him retch and it came out his nose. I was speed reading and just read the last paragraph of your post...wtf?!?!?!?! I chuckled to myself. |
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ha ha!! |
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you're 100% CORRECT! ZING! |
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AWESOME!!!! =D *totally wants one now* |
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