Re: Best Cheap Guitar Synth

[mark sottilaro <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>]

I spent some time with my Line6 filter pro's Synth
patches, and while I didn't have anything to compare
it to, I thought, for the price, they were excellent. 
I don't know how their x911 emulation holds up to the
original, but I sure was able to get some interesting
noises from it.  Glitchy for sure, but I hear the
original was too.

Perhaps I should borrow a friend's Filter Factory and
do a side by side test.  Funny, I got rid of my
Electrix stuff (except the Repeater) because I was
paying out a lot and I needed rack space.  Now that
I'm happily holed up in my studio those reasons are
gone.  But then again, I could just sink deeper and
deeper into software as seems to be the fashion. 

Has anyone fooled with software filters/effects for a
guitar synth like sound? 

Also, I called up a few patches in the good old VH-1
for "synth" sounds.  Not sure if they're what you're
looking for but some very interesting cool sounds for
sure.  Man I love that little red box.

Mark

--- S V G <vsyevolod@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
>      Kevin,
> 
>      I've owned the FM-4, and though I would never
> have described it as "glitchy", it didn't sound
> convincing to me.  More like it was trying to
> emulate 16 different "real filters" and doing a
> barely passable job at all of them.  I'm sure that
> other users find it more than adequate, that
> was just my impression.  By itself it was okay,
> kinda fun for a few hours...  But then put it in a
> signal chain with other stomp boxes and suddenly it
> doesn't sound so good anymore.  Same goes for
> their other coloured boxes.  The MM-4 was my
> favorite out of that bunch, but it just didn't hold
> up in a more complex signal path.  I sold it and got
> a TC Stereo Chorus Flanger instead.  Now
> there's a sexy beast...
> 
>      The Filter Factory on the other hand, sounds as
> clear and as deep as a snow-fed mountain
> stream.  The only problem I have with it is that the
> distortion segment is a bit lame.  But that's
> neither here nor there.  You also may want to look
> into the Filter Queen, almost the same exact
> unit while taking up half the space.  I've owned
> both and have kept the Filter Factory.
> 
>      I also owned an Evolver for 6 months or so. 
> One of the worst possible user interfaces ever
> to exist on a piece of gear.  While the PolyEvolver
> keyboard goes a long way towards rectifying
> the Evolver's UI, it still doesn't show what it got
> under it's skirt.  This is something that I'd
> want to see at a glance, like say, a Nord Lead or a
> Korg Oasys with their LED illuminated rotary
> knobs.  Electrix gear shows everything, you can tell
> what sound it's going to make even before
> turning it on.  The only exception to this is that
> the Repeater is lacking a few small things like
> track mute indicators.
> 
>      Stephen
> 
> 
> 
> <<The FM-4 looks to be a little glitchy, judging
> from the user manual 
> and the comments on the list.  Does anyone have
> experience with the 
> Electrix Filter Factory?  That may be the filter for
> me.>>
> 
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