So you heard of Serum in a box, now I am more interested in a “multiple types of real instruments in a box” type of box that I can hook my digitakt on to. Does anybody know of anything like this?
Saw the V3 type of stuff but tbh they look too specific.
Thought about the yamaha seqtrack, heard that’s full of various sounds.
Any more ideas?
Thanks in advance!
What kind of instruments do you want? I think some do one thing better than they do others, even for the rompler/pcm type stuff.
It’s a bit more than what you’re looking for, but MPC one can be scored so cheap these days it might be worth considering. Even at a bare minimum usage you’d still get multisampled instruments that sound good, and then all the other stuff that comes along with it. Could use with DT, could use in parallel to DT, could use it standalone.
I’d look in that direction if I were already kinda on the fence about what to do.
Maybe something like an MPC or Blackbox/tangerine that can handle multi-sample instrument libraries. I considered the tangerine for this, but now I use my laptop for that stuff (or real instruments).
The korg wavestate has quite a lot of good quality Multisamples of real instruments and you could even add you owns.
Plus it offers soooooo much in terms of sound design. Not the easiest to program but for the standard multi samples it’s pretty easy. Comes in a desktop version as well if you don’t need a keyboard
Thanks for the replies!
I was looking at the smaller the better, and the more instruments the better, I would love to have flutes and horns and bells and whistles and everything under the sun in the smallest form.
Just scored a korg plugkey, and saw that my beloved pianoteq is on iOS!! Which is crazy to be honest, I would love to have a box that can do physical modelled real instruments multitimbrally, an iPhone isn’t that hands on, but after some tweaking and buying AUM it seems to be pretty powerful.
Was just wondering if there was any specific gear that could make my fluteandstuff itch go away.
Saw the Yamaha vl1m on another post, now that I could get into!
The MPC seems cool, might put my hands on one one day, although the rythm wolf was my first ever instrument, and at that moment I wowed to never buy another akai again.
Korg wavestate was definetely on my mind, never knew it had real instrument patches, only heard the crazy ones.
Hmmm, I forgot about the tangerine! Thanks!
Mellotron or Memotron.
I thought you meant something like this from the title!
As above, Mellotron sounds like a good match.
The Moog Model D does numerous patches under these names. Behringer Model D obviously much cheaper option.
Just grabbed a modx+…Not the smallest, but one of the greatest in term of versatility and quality of content…
Luckily Akai have learned a thing or two since the Wolves
I really hope so
Yes, this is kind of what I was thinking of, but not that limited in mulit timbrality, and with more modern sounding instruments.
Somehow to me even that Yamaha vl1m sounded more modern than any demos I heard from the memotron. Or maybe I’m just picky…dunno
I use an old Yamaha MU15 for this purpose.
Yeaaaa the bells and whistles were just put there for fun, I am really looking for something that has maybe physical modelling or multisampled rhodes, other keys maybe, flutes and things. But in a box that I can hold on to when I feel trapped in this wretched world
I’ll look into it thanks!
Oh YEAAAH those pretty gameboys!
I had the QY70 once, should have never sold it, I loved that machine so much. But still I had to let go of it because the 80’s sound quality vibe started to bore me.
But I would love to still have one just for fun!
Try an iPad mini with usb c.
You can use Digitakt to send midi and receive audio.
Gotta say I keep coming back to ipad as closest answer for what you’re describing. I don’t know of a small dedicated instrument, like a Volca or Aira, with multisample or physical modeling capabilities.
On an ipad you could use Korg Module Pro for pianos, EPs, and some orchestral instruments, and supplement that with Korg IM1 for more.
You could also choose yourself a nice dedicated app for EP (Neo-Soul Keys, or VTines Live), acoustic piano (Ravenscroft or Pure Piano); if you like organ there’s Galileo and VB3M. Blackhawk has a huge library of percussion sounds. And there are all the synth and drum machine apps if you want those.
Of course ipad is a two part solution, since you’d want a little compatible keyboard controller to play it, unless you like onscreen keyboards.
fwiw
Yes, both of you are on point with the iPad.
I was just thinking about it being maybe the best all in one solution to my problem.
I hate Apple as a company from the bottom of my heart, but the stuff they make is pretty reliable for music making.
I have no great love for Apple, but the quantity and quality of sounds you can get in an ipad, for not too much money, is pretty great. Just the two Korg apps (Module Pro and Im1) with their optional sound packs would give you a whole bunch of different instruments.
