I very much enjoyed the deeper review - as an owner of the Schmidt myself, I actually learned some new things. In fact, this is exactly the kind of videos we need. So thank you and I look forward very much to your Part 2!
I received mine in 2017 and it is a seriously lovely sounding instrument. It is also seriously heavy. My only gripe is that it lacks a deep low end so I have to apply appreciable EQ on the desk, which gets you only part-way there. When set against my Moog One or Roland JX10, it is quite apparent.
This is obviously an amazing machine, but I have to say I'm not really hearing anything I haven't heard from loads of other synths. I also wonder what it brings to the table _musically_ that makes it worth the price. What would make it so desirable to a musician, not just to a nerd.
That is a valid point. Then it seems that I have not yet succeeded in showing what makes it so different. A task then for Part 2. An important point is the haptic aspect. It is simply fun to explore the device. The fourth oscillator is special and adds another sound component. Then there are the filter possibilities, which I will talk about later. But you can certainly buy many other good devices for the money. That is out of the question.
@@knobsswitches Yeah, I would take a Schmidt over both of those any day. I sold my OB8 a while ago. Never had a JP8 but I had the JP4. I think I'll me up a list of definite keeps and things I would be willing to sell for a Schmidt and see what I come up with. Kind of funny timing since I'm in the process of buying a large house for all my gear, projects, and record label.
That boss effect dooes so much work on making sound sweet and realistic. I would install it in synth if i was synth builder. Let me know if you know some vst analogs. Synth is beast but so pricey... For this money you can buy Andromeda, omega 8 and some more other, which also sound good.
What kind of shocks me is that the Schmidt IIRC doesn't have a mod matrix. It has a dedicated modulation path and so has to have knobs for every possible modulation option. Oberheim was doing sophisticated mod matrices on analog synths since 1984.
The idea was to avoid a mod matrix, cause you have a knob for the modulations like on a minimoog or jupiter. but you have midi cc to control and record all parameters externally
@@knobsswitches The MiniMoog and Jupiter can get away with dedicated modulations because there are so few of them. They are very simplistic machines. Not so the Schmidt. As the audio and signal path gets larger, the number of modulation options increases as a square to the point that they completely overwhelm the main parameters. That's the whole point of a mod matrix: to enable many options without a million superfluous knobs.
Great work using the Schmidt as the main instrument. You could orm a record label around it and it pays for itself. Too bad no power cord is included though. There are no end of essential things you can't buy here in my country here in Asia, it wouldn't surprise me if I went to the home builders shop to buy such a power cord and they told me. Oh...power cords...don't you have usb already, everybody just uses usb now you know. Milk, spare parts for anything you want to fix, you aren't suppose to fix anything any more. The lithium battery should just explode and solve everything for you. Lets go drown in a puddle of water shall we? There are no plummers or electricians any more either and perhaps that is why. But no worries you could put Schmidt to good use in Cageian explorations of silence, Mick Jagger on vocals.
All those square wave/PWM sounds remind me TTL digital logic. Contemporary CPUs/GPUs contain billions of TTL logic paths inside. Would be interesting to know how they would sound via some pin output if clocked with audible frequencies instead of 4-6GHz.
Both. I made almost all the sounds myself, but since I also created 2 banks of factory sounds for the SCHMIDT, there are also factory sounds from me ;-)
If they do you're guaranteed to wait years after it's announced and than get another trash synth that sounds exactly the same as their other generic trash synths. Get excited to wait in line for garbage.
