Moog Music Forum

Bruce Haack

Well, I've got things a lot more functional since I last posted in here. My current core setup:

-old pIII PC with Nuendo and a MOTU 828
-Tascam 388 8 track reel-to-reel super-portastudio thing
-Realistic MG-1
-Commodore 64 (soon to be upgraded with a second SID and full sync24-MTC conversion so I ...

Part out the broken one and use the money for a fader/switch replacement set. I was hesitant to spend over $100 for a handful of faders and switches at first, but it's well worth it.

Thing is, I saw someone else on a totally different website also claim to have used it to play the SID directly.

Anyhow, I'm curious enough to fire it up. If it isn't useful for anything, I can at least make a disk of the software and resell it with that, which should make it go for more than the ...

Yeah, I saw one seller who had the end keys up for $25 each or so, and the rest of the keys around $10 each. If you managed to sell them all for that, that alone would be worth nearly the premium cost of a working MG-1 on ebay. It'd take a while, though.

More interestingly, this guy mentions playing sound directly the SID using a MSP-equipped c64. Seems to good to be true.

Yeah, but I've only got a few dollars invested in it, and it's not going to do anything that I couldn't do from a laptop if I really wanted to. It's more of a project than anything.

I've heard bad things about the software too, honestly can't imagine it being good simply because of the limitations ...

Prophet64 cart is still on the way, but in the meantime, I've got a solid lead on another free c64, so looks like in the long run I'll be running one c64 with the Moog Song Producer and syncing the second one to it via DINSYNC or MIDI (depending on how much effort I want to put into building ...

I use synthesizers almost exclusively as live sound sources to be processed, and haven't used one as an external midi device in about 4 years. I usually do sort of kraut/space rock when I use them.

I had very little experience soldering PCBs and it took me about 3 hours to do all the switches and sliders, including repairing a peeled-off PCB trace. It's pretty easy (nothing too tight or close to ICs) and you'll be a lot more comfortable soldering after you're done. Make sure you get a ...

Well, I've got the c64, song producer and software (which I haven't gotten onto floppy yet, still deciding what approach I want to take with that since all of them seem to requre custom hardware), jsut looking for a manual still. Probably just end up ordering one.

At this point I'm honestly a lot ...

One Maxtor removable, one Western Digital removable.

I do stricktly semi-pro stuff (partly an aesthetic choice, partly a financial choice) but I would say right now, if you're doing it mainly for yourself especially, try to find a 1/4" 8 track machine. The sound quality is pretty good and tape is exponentially cheaper than 1/2", which is the next step ...

The last straw for me was having not one but TWO removable hard drives fail during a move last year. I carried them in my lat the whole way (a ten minute drive) and was generally laughably careful with them, but to no avail. So there went the bulk of the music I'd worked on for the last two years ...

I've been moving more and more toward mid-level analog recording gear these days. LAst week I actually chose to bounce between an old Tascam Syncasette machine and a portastudio rather than using the reel to reel, and I haven't even had a working computer in my studio in a year (Got a 500mhz DEC ...