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Post by rhubarb on May 4, 2009 19:43:02 GMT
Hello everyone, Hope you are all well. I hadn't heard of the Fusion until yesterday morning, when I was doing some research into the MPC 5000 and someone on a forum was criticizing the VA on the 5000, saying that it was modelled on the 'unsuccessful' Alesis Fusion. Well, I thought I'll do a search on Google and make up my own mind. I was really impressed with the specs of the Fusion and with the reviews of it in Keyboard and SOS. I looked on eBay and there were a couple there and long story short the seller will deliver a 8HD 'Klaus Schulze' edition to me the week after next. I had a good chat with the seller (Al 'themusicwizard') and I'm now pretty excited about the possibilities of the Fusion. The music I like is Boards of Canada, Gary Numan, John Foxx, Kraftwerk, Biosphere, Depeche Mode, some movie soundtracks and other bits and pieces (could be Marvin Gaye, U2 or 80's hip hop). Anyway, thanks for listening. Cheers, Steve.  |
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Post by Hollow Sun on May 5, 2009 12:38:03 GMT
Hi Rhubarb and welcome.
If you rummage around The Club here, you'll discover that we pay scant regard to disparaging comments about Fusion found on the net - they are almost always tosh made by (ahem) 'experts' whose only experience is hearsay and 2nd-hand rumours!
Althemusicwizard is a member here and his 8HD will be a fine example of the beast.
As for the genres of music you like, you should find your new toy ideal.
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Steve
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Post by rhubarb on May 5, 2009 13:41:10 GMT
Thanks for the welcome Steve.
I've downloaded most of the Fusion documentation from the Alesis site so I can have a read up before it get's here.
All the best,
Rhubarb.
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Post by suilebhain on May 6, 2009 14:09:20 GMT
I have begun to suspect that in many cases people who pan synthesizers as "unsuccessful" haven't ever put their hands on one and if they did probably didn't get beyond the presets. What measures success in a synthesizer, anyway?
To me, it is the ability to hold down one key forever and feel like I am being sublimated by the sound.
Unfortunately, with music in the state that it is in, I suspect that "success" is measured by how quickly you can produce the next MM Cool L Dog Phatz single.
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Post by psionic11 on May 6, 2009 18:14:38 GMT
I have begun to suspect that in many cases people who pan synthesizers as "unsuccessful" haven't ever put their hands on one and if they did probably didn't get beyond the presets. What measures success in a synthesizer, anyway? To me, it is the ability to hold down one key forever and feel like I am being sublimated by the sound. Unfortunately, with music in the state that it is in, I suspect that "success" is measured by how quickly you can produce the next MM Cool L Dog Phatz single. True on many counts. I can relate to holding down one key or one chord and getting lost in that sound, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that a super-duper-arpeggiated-drum trak keypress marks success either. I think what marks an object or tool of art as a success is in its potential to deliver or inspire, which on the sound-creation front, the Fusion does in spades. |
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Post by madprof on May 6, 2009 22:54:09 GMT
Hello everyone, Hope you are all well. I hadn't heard of the Fusion until yesterday morning, when I was doing some research into the MPC 5000 and someone on a forum was criticizing the VA on the 5000, saying that it was modelled on the 'unsuccessful' Alesis Fusion. Well, I thought I'll do a search on Google and make up my own mind. I was really impressed with the specs of the Fusion and with the reviews of it in Keyboard and SOS. I looked on eBay and there were a couple there and long story short the seller will deliver a 8HD 'Klaus Schulze' edition to me the week after next. I had a good chat with the seller (Al 'themusicwizard') and I'm now pretty excited about the possibilities of the Fusion. Glad that you did get one. I own a Novation Supernova 2 as well as a Fusion and frankly the Fusion VA is stonking. Compares very well to the SN2. I got it because it had great specs for a new 600 pound synth. Not regretted it at all. |
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Post by rhubarb on May 7, 2009 1:21:25 GMT
It makes me smile when I play an ambient sound on a synth and I get lost in that sound and it's possibilties. What I struggle with is actually completing a track/song. I often think that I'm quite happy to potter around without adding the pressure of judging my compositions. I definetly am moving away from drums in my own musical efforts and my ideas are, well a bit 'unstructured'. When I made music in the 1980's it was very influenced by Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, New Order and Kraftwerk (as well as other electronic bands) and in the early 1990's it was the rave influence. I've just taken music up again as a hobby after many years and I feel like I don't want to conform to the same song structures as those early days. This can feel a bit strange though when we we are bombarded with predictable popular music. When I hear the dance music as I'm flicking through the TV channels I can get quite angry about how s**t the music is. I don't mean to be a snob about it - I think I'm probably just becoming an old fart, LOL. Give me Biosphere over Beyonce any day! Cheers. |
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Post by suilebhain on May 7, 2009 13:36:43 GMT
Robert Rich over Rich E. Rich!
Steve Roach over Stevie Wonder! (might get some protests on that one)
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Post by madprof on May 7, 2009 16:56:52 GMT
I'd take very very few people over Stevie Wonder. The guy is/was just uber-talented.
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Post by rhubarb on May 7, 2009 17:24:48 GMT
Vanilla Ice........now there's talent! ;D
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Post by Hollow Sun on May 7, 2009 18:38:04 GMT
I'd take very very few people over Stevie Wonder. The guy is/was just uber-talented. ! You've not heard his new single!!! Complete and utter shite ... as deep and musically profound as a bloody nursery rhyme ... typical modern (ahem) 'R&B' crap ... I'm surprised he didn't autotune himself as appears to be the fashion now.  Tragic really  Steve |
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