Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!SPOT!SCHABTAC From: schabtac@SPOT.COLORADO.EDU Newsgroups: bit.listserv.emusic-l Subject: Re: Is this a Waldorf I see before me? Message-ID: <9002211912.AA27156@spot.Colorado.EDU> Date: 21 Feb 90 19:12:17 GMT Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Lines: 22 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM.BITNET Gateway X-Envelope-to: EMUSIC-L@AUVM.BITNET Nick-- I'm a little puzzled by something you posted: you said that the VFX sounds "nice" but "boring" and that your heart says go for the MicroWave. But earlier, on your "first-encounter" posting, you said (in effect) that the 'Dorf sounds really boring, or at least as far as the presets show. What has the 'Dorf done to win over your heart? Is it that it claims to be a PPG reincarnate? Or that it has analog filters? Or that it's not Ensoniq (by the way, the VFX SD is pretty bug-free, if you get the 2.0 ROMs, or so I've heard from an SD owner)? Just curious, because the VFX is the first synth to really get my attention since the D-50 came out. I see a new synth in my future, and both the ? oops -- unfamiliar keyboard both the Waldorf and the VFX are strong contenders. --Adam P.S. I guess I forgot to mention that I realize your infatuation with the Waldorf has been long and intense -- it's just that you seemed a bit disappointed with it after finally seeing it in the light of day.