On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Nick Copeland <[email protected]> wrote: >> OT: I never noticed any difference for the sound quality, of different >> versions of the Prophet 5, but I guess everybody heard about stable or >> unstable tuning for different versions of the Mini Moog ;). Revisions >> could have different qualities. [OT end] > > There were two major releases of the Prophet-5, one with Curtis chips and > later one with SSM chips. The Curtis had rather wild temperature senstivity > and so was replaced. Anybody who has used both found the newer models > to sound a lot thinner and some would prefer the sensitivity/unreliability > of > the former to get the sound quality. > > The MiniMoog is a bit more esoteric, they did not used anybodies chipsets > but mostly discrete components. Legend has it they the board layout was > changed at some point and even though the design was the same those in > the know did not appreciate the new sound. > > I am pretty sure the Oberheim went through the same issues as SC. The > big Rolands are a separate issue - I think they used there own chipsets but > I could be a bit wide of the mark. > > Kind regards, nick. >
This thread reminded me I have a DX7 sitting in the garage. Wonder if it still works? Hasn't been out of the flight case in years... - Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
