Ezzo wrote:Got me an Omni 2 also and I have to say I F-ing LOVE it! It does that string sound so well. My fave is the cello, it just sounds so sad and depressing I feel like I should be scoring a funeral scene in a movie with it. The only issues mine has is that the key contacts are little dirty but I'm going to have them cleaned as soon as I find someone I trust enough to touch it.
Have you managed to come up with any good patches for the synth section yet? I made a pretty good brass sound but a decent electric piano or keyboard sound still eludes me. I'm not too fusses though because the strings are what I wanted it for and they do not disappoint!
The only thing I'm concerned about is that does have all the original power supply stuff and I heard these go south on Omnis pretty often. Its working fine now, I'm just going to hope it stays that way.
Hello,
Percussive/comp-type parts are a problem on the Omni because of the one vca however, the synth section works well when used for pad sounds.
If you have a Mooger CP-251, the S/H & lfo can be used to modulate the filter in combination with the internal lfo and/or you can feed the synth section directly through a Murf (used as a fixed formant filter). This will allow you to double the string section by tuning the Murf's formants to approximate one of the string voices. The string voice is routed through the internal chorus board full wet and the synth section can be sent direct thru an external chorus (Boss Dimension is most transparent). When the two sections are combined at a mixer, result is quite nice.
Ezzo, whats your general geographic location? There are a few people who still work on them.
Regards,
Lawrence
