BassTractor

Just for the funds record, I too owned an MS-20 that I sold for peanuts. There is a fun bit too though, in that its ownership travel, disregarding caveats in the story, may actually have been like this: Cesar Zuiderwijk (Golden Earring drums) -> yours truly -> Alex Roelofs (The Nits bass) -> Robert Jan Stips (The Nits keys) -> Robert Jan Stips (Golden Earring keys) So there sits Zuiderwijk: "Demn, demn, demn, demn ..." 😁

No need for concern that you might have to thank him. Just curse him safely right away. Synths are fruitful and they multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the bass of the sea and the land.

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Nice! Melurves synthporn, me, especially with wooden side panels. I notice what I assume are four output pots on the virtual patch bay, but also two input pots on OSC 1. If correct, does that mean that the machine spawns more "hidden" flexibility necessitating this doubling up? As you can see, I don't know this synth. Admittedly, I haven't studied the panel in great detail, and not Thought This Through Thoroughly either. 😄

Also: £ 5,000 now reached! Yay! Well done, folks!

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Woh??? Pure coincidence, I promise you. Nice car!

Aw! An MS-24 ! 🥰 No, I've changed my mind. It's a 420G ... * 😀 Lusted after it at the time (probably in its rack version), in part guided by my love for the MS-20 and the fun I'd had with the VC-10 vocoder. Yes, please report back. Good to read hands-on experience. *) for those not in the know, a 420G is really a Mark X, Jaguar's very, very expensive model in the sixties.

Cool, @Rich! Tried one in a shop, but don't remember more than that it was attractive, its simple layout belying its width. Can I just ask: Does this thing have full-size keys like the BS2, and does it spawn a sub-octave? At any rate, the Bass Stations were/are attractive synths, and, from reports, Novation seem to have released some classics over the years.

YESSS! Great Halloween success when this thing stood howling and yammering like a set of zombies, and the neighbour's kids axed me: "Are you torturing them?" 😂 Of course I was, and for clarity's sake: I have no idea why it worked so wonderfully. Tried to lag the LFO output in the Envelope Follower, but that seemed to do nothing, etc. Must read.

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BTW, again as to build quality, this one receives favourable remarks ... ... the Behringer Pro-800 not so much - - quite the opposite in fact, one synth guru remarking its bad build is indicative of Behringer's quality the last one to two years.

Thanks, for the comments, folks! For brevity, I (misguidedly?) decided to leave the different Chineses out of this, but the very thought of those languages made me think that probably a listener's response is not only influenced by the intervals per se, but much by what one is used to in that language. As to @Hellzero's comment, I think he's right in that I used the wrong term. For attempted clarity, I wonder both about the total pitch range in a certain culture and about individuals' ranges and intervals. I've always had the feeling that Brits are more welcoming to pitch ranges and intervals than say the Dutch or the Nordics ... and then came this linguist's comment. As to the two examples I mentioned: Here's an example of Northern-Sami, which is one in a North-Western group of Finno-Ugric languages, and this footage starts with the regular use of it. Segment 8 (clickable below the vid), shows the less regular version I mentioned by a journalist named Kaisa Aikio. https://tv.nrk.no/serie/oddasat-tv/sesong/202410/episode/SANY70102924 An Annie Hulley example from the spin-off series Celebrity Yorkshire Auction House (embedding disallowed) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cYO-qRi3rE I couldn't find a good Series 1 example ("in beautiful North Yorkshire, in the pretty town of Kirkbymoorside ..."), but to my ears, by seaon 5, she seems to have mellowed somewhat (sounding more "reasonable" to my ears) :

Edit: Title should've been "Pitch range in speech ...." I'll leave it so as to show why the posts are what they are. What do you say: Is using a sixth or a seventh in speech, within a word or between two words, "normal" or special or annoying or ... what? Background: "Nordic countries have the widest (?) frequency range in speech", some linguist claimed. I'd always thought it was the Brits, but may of course be totally wrong. Here, we have a newsreader who can well jump a seventh within a word. She's infamous for it, and some people switch off the sound when she comes on. One Annie Hulley doing the voice-over on "The Yorkshire Auction House" jumps a documented sixth at the very least, and it made me wonder: How does that come across in Britland? Is that nice, normal, special, insufferable ... something else? (To me, a cheesehead living in a cold country, it comes across as fake cosey and totally over the top, but then I tend to be the odd one out, and also can't remember such speech from my native Goudaland.) I'm interested in hearing the British perspective on things (based on my old belief that you guys are the frequency range masters). Might well be that's she's the ultimate voice-over reader in your neck of the woods, Idunno. Comments appreciated. It intrigues me.

That's just ignorant and boorish, Dave. 😉 In other news: 101% now, and we can't have that as teacher once told us you can't have more than 100% (I told him he was wrong, but he wouldn't have anything of it). IOW: @Clarky , there's work to be done! 😀 Good job, BC!

Bumpy Rhodes (way to tired to invent something else)

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Ped's already explained in the other thread why that isn't being done. Let's just keep this thread highly visible the coming decades. 😉

Bah! You're only commenting to keep this thread on top! 😡

These days, I'll only enter a music shop with the intention to buy, but I do remember the guilty feeling when using up their time when I was only preparing for a future purchase, like gathering info and hands-on experience. Guilt for wanting to buy there! Oversensitive youth! That said, different shops spawn different characters, and I once annoyed a shop-owner very much when not purchasing the OSCar synth I'd tried, and instead buying a Fostex 4-track that I hadn't tried ... I was less experienced back then, and he managed to induce guilt in me. Or I managed.

Well done, @Clarky. Now we need to keep also this thread at the top of General Discussion, by commenting. Clarky, could you please also add the justgiving link to the OP? Makes stuff quicker. Also, can you keep this fundraiser open for a week or more? best, bert