[b]To Wet Your Appetite for Synth Modules, this one's for you...
LAUNCHPAD-S

Launchpad is totally portable. Hooked up to your computer – or iPad – via USB, it’s fully bus powered (no need for power sockets), and it’s lightweight and easy to carry anywhere.

Included software
As well as ‘Ableton Live Launchpad Edition’, Launchpad S comes with a software version of Novation’s classic analogue mono-synth – the Bass Station. You can use this as a plug-in within Ableton, FL Studio or other DAWs.

There is also a sample pack supplied by world leading sample producers –Loopmasters. Get started straight away with over one gigabyte of loops including drums, FX and artist content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fue0P_sfMs

and, a shorter version ....trance out, my friends:

http://us.novationmusic.com/midi-controllers-digital-dj/launchpad-s?f=HC

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So, here we go with G-Daddys partial synth "History:"

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How I got into this product line...I blame everything on Pat Metheny and his incredibly moving series of Synth Guitar CD's!

It's been more than a decade since G-Daddy dived deeply into electronic music. From the time I first owned a Pat-Metheny-promoted GR-303 Synth Controller Solid Oak Roland Jazz/Synth Guitar, and it's lil floor synth, the Roland 300 synth....What a "bath" in future of Synth-controllers for Leads, Grooves with dynamic/moody leads to drive jazz/fusion/guitar, to even greater heights.within the recording industry...Rock was doing it...Now Jazz Guitarist, like Metheny and MacGloughlin..were doing it,
as music and musicians became "internationalist", and, all of a sudden we had jazz and rock influences from massive influxes of styles and influences.

I bought a number of synth keyboards and modules over the succeeding decade, trading off some for synths targeted specifically for different venues like the wonderfully complex Yamaha E-5...which I quickly exchanged for my new interest in simplified and packaged offering of boards and modules that would "swing" with the already built-in patches...with sampling add-ons!

I even bought an Akai S-5000 Sampler that served me well in my small recording studio...It was just what I needed, patches--patches--and more patches!along with the secret to my finalizing the sounds, the Behringer Ultra-Dyne 9024!

Just like my Yamaha CS6X "Dancer" which was a combination Dance/Trance 66 key Synth/Sampler with loads of great patches for the Dance/Trance/Fusion Gigs, that we were were racing ahead of the Trio-type "old fashioned" guitar-bass-accordian-violin gigs.

When Korg Triton produced a succession of keyboard synths with multi add-on boards that plugged into the synths... patches galore...and even greater storage cards with specific "grooves" I bought the Korg Karms and Yamaha arranger-type keyboards with the new and exciting dance patches covering any number of styles.

Then as the Synth Wars continued, I jumped on the first Yamaha PA Motif Rack Synth, and latter the Motif ES-8.

I've had other keyboards and soundboards, inluding the very expensie Oasis PCA synths/patches...now gone with the wind!!

Here is Craigs take on the ariety of hardware synth aailable now.

Remember, there are now sophisticated software to mix and master both hardware and software synth...and programs like Florida Studio that work nicely with products like Launchpad and and others.

Fit all these toys in a backsack, and audition for that newFused Gig!!
http://www.harmonycentral.com/t5/Gear-Ar...d/ba-p/34798735 [/b]

Yamaha...Motif ES-8, Motif Rack, CS6X
Korg...Karma,Triton Classic, PA-80, M-1+
AkaiSampler-S5000, Roland.. X5080 Rack/G-1000 Arranger
Various Guitars/Basses Amps Pedals Rec.Equip.


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