2nd Impressions of the LP.

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Most of us have had our LP’s for awhile now, so I thought some discussion and opinions at this point might be fun and helpful now that the “excitement” has died down a bit.

I love its compactness and the simplicity of it’s layout. Of course, more knobs per function would not have been a bad thing, but after working on the panel for less than an hour I felt like I could get around it almost blindfolded.

Most of us want to compare it with the Voyager, which is hard not to do, even though it might be viewed by some as an unfair comparison. I had an AE Voyager, which I sold in favor of the LP (thought I have an RME as well), but I realize that I like working with the LP a lot more than I ever did my Voyager. There were SO many features on the Voyager that I simply did not use, and I realize that’s down to personal taste and style of music, too. I didn’t enjoy some of the menu hopping you had to do on the Voyager, whereas with the LP I haven’t had to go through the menu even once so far. That’s what I want when working with my analogs… to be looking at knobs and buttons, not values on a display menu.

The obvious gripes with the LP are the lack of noise, S&H and a highpass filter. I have a CP-251, so that takes care of most of that, but I know that most of us have other synths to handle those functions so that shouldn’t be too big of a complaint.

The thing I love most about the LP is that it feels like an old analog synth. With the Voyager and even other synths like the DSI MEK and PEK, you really get the feeling that you’re playing on something “new”, meaning a synth with too many bells and whistles. The LP just has that simple, limited, no frills layout that gives me the same feeling I got when playing with older Moog and Roland analogs. I love how they didn’t try to put so much “stuff” on it, which is how every vintage analog I ever had was like. Granted, most people have plenty of synths to cover every feature they have ever dreamed of, and different styles of music require different functions, but for what I do, the LP just about covers it all.

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i know what you mean.

extra features that you don’t use allways just sit there mocking you saying “ah ha i contributed to the price but you don’t even use me, mwahahahahaha”
at least they do my gear :wink:

yeah the simple interface and amazing sound really go hand in hand

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Great idea for a topic–I almost started the same topic up last week.

I still love my LP. I played mine before work for about an hour this morning. It just was calling and I had to obey. I was late for work, but what the heck.

I have tried to like the DSI PEK, but every time I sit down to one, it leaves me cold. I just can’t get attached to it. Same with my Andromeda. I still can’t make that thing do what I want it to. I had the LP mastered almost immediately. Of course, the LP is much simpler than the PEK or the Andromeda, so this probably speaks more about my programming knowledge. BUT–the LP is very user friendly. That is the genius in its design.

I love the sound and the work interface of the LP. It is that simple. Right now it is my synth of choice in my home studio.

I think that Carbon 111 stated it best a couple of weeks back when he said that the Voyager was something less than a modular but something more than a performance synth, and that the LP was a perfect performance synth. I think that this is why so many people like it so much.

Sometimes playing my LP I feel a bit limited by my sound sculpting options, but the LP is what it is, and it does what it was designed to do just brilliantly.