The Hardware Megathread

#2394

So Massive annihilates that little quad core Atom, as expected :joy: I didn’t get any crackle though. But Massive’s CPU meter was regularly in the 30 and 40% range on some single note patches (but held up to 4-5 notes, too). Granted I’m under the assumption that NI would have been doing optimizations for the Maschine+ version, too.

#2395

IDK, the overall shape screams Roland to me. Reminds me of the system 8 or the JD-XA. Though it can’t be either, they both have way more knobs.

#2396

I leaned to the Roland stuff, too, but they also have wheels on the side. Was wondering if it might be some kind of workstation keyboard

#2397

Black blofeld keys maybe?

#2398

Knobs in the wrong spot :frowning:

#2399

Yeah, they seem to high, but the mod and pitch wheel seem correct, maybe it’s just prospective? Otherwise no idea.

#2400

I’m totally not hating but aren’t most of Steve Akoi’s songs ghost written anyway? That being said, could it be a Dave Smith, they have a fair few black keyboard synths if I recall or a Studio Sledge (or w/e its called)

#2401

Looks like a synth with an addon module custom built into it. I’m probably wrong of course.

#2402

I couldn’t tell you a single song he’s known for lol. I just watch Sanjay C a lot and this came up, and I like solving a mystery XD

#2403

Haha. No worries. Like I said not really hating it just struck me as funny. Only thing I know about him is he throws cake at the crowd?

#2404

Or imagine having a 2 line LCD screen and no knobs

#2405

I don’t miss the days…

#2406

Ok, I’ll say it. The Model:Cycles is ugly as fuck.

#2407

And the Samples. Good thing I love it so much lol. And maybe I’m just a filthy savage but the some of the knobs on my Samples are stained/dirty looking already.

#2408

But you can cover it with dumb stickers!

#2409

To each their own, but those went right in the trash when I got my Samples lol.

#2410

Still got my stickers, kept them in the box which is in the shed.

cancerian, such a hoarder :sunglasses:

#2411

I wrote my first pattern on the Cycles and it was already good enough to be sampled in the Force to turn into a track, great reverb on that thing.

No idea what to do with the Chord machine though…

#2412

And a brief demo recorded one handed, so no tweaking
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4ssi4w9tz5n5iva/044.m4v?dl=1

#2413

Do you have an opinion on how the Cycles is as a synth synth versus an percussion synth. All but on of the machines is percussion oriented if I recall, that’s what turned me off on it in favor of trying the Digitakt.

I like the demo! A lot of cool noise and insect sounds : ) Also dat kick drum!