Marvelous!
Do you have an R8 for the anvil hit? (I suppose you have plenty of sample power for that though if needed 
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I donât know, this is my first MPC 
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No R8 (unfortunately!), but my previous house (to which I still have access) has a fortified tornado shelter in the basement with 6" concrete walls and ceiling, and a big solid metal door. It has a marvelous 7-second reverb and I have a pile of metal poles. Will that do?
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Damn, you Kansans donât f**k around! I guess âTornado Alleyâ ainât just something in the moviesâŠ
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Iâve never felt inclined to use that room for anything other than a reverb chamber. But I do always like to have my studio in the basement - just in case. 
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I think you might be misunderstanding what the Peak/Summit is. Yes it has âwavetablesâ that you can use apart from the standard waveforms but the oscillators arenât DSP, they are generated at incredibly high resolution in a special chip called an FPGA, and âweak, limited, slowâ as you described it is just totally inaccurate. Itâs an unbelievably deep synthesis engine.
Iâm not comparing the Novation to the Sequential, just responding to your post since I see a lot of people lately referring to the Peak/Summit as a âwavetableâ or digital synth, and while thatâs partly true⊠its not really a good way to describe them. They are mostly analog (VCAs, filters, drive stages, etc) synths with analog-like waveforms generated at rates so high in the FPGA that they are mostly indistinguishable from an an analog waveform. Itâs not the same as oscillators in a Virus etc.
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That will do nicely!
You could do some Phil style room mic-ed drums in there too Might need slight dampening though.
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I think someone would have to have spent a lot of time with both synths to be able to answer the question of what one could do that the other couldnât. Iâve never used either of the T synths from Sequential but Iâve used the Peak and Summit for at least⊠I donât even know haha, 5 hours a week on average maybe since 2017, and itâs incredibly flexible and rewarding to program. I would love to have some time with the Teo, it looks amazing too. However, after watching quite a few videos of the Take 5, I do not think it is as flexible or capable as the Peak/Summit architecture. Doesnât mean it sounds less awesome, or that itâs not also very flexible.
I donât own an OSCar (though Iâve fixed one for a friend), but while the oscillators are technically digital, theyâre a little different from pretty much anything else that Iâve seen. I wouldnât call them wavetable (though they are generated from a combination of a CPU clock (from a Z80 processor) and a ton of CMOS logic ICs. (lots of CD405x muxes too for combining various digital signals) Digital in the sense of 0V being 0 and +V being 1. (so a bit different than say being generated fully by the processor) I actually have a couple of oscillators that generate some of the waveforms in similar (though much simpler ways). Iâm guessing that the Peak and Summit are doing all of this on their FPGAs, but in exactly the same way since one FPGA can do all the logic of the tens of logic ICs in the OSCar. Definitely an interesting synth and method for creating the waveforms. The schematics are readily available online for anyone looking to see more. (just google image search for OSCar schematics)
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There are specific threads for each of these instruments at the center of this back and forth. Maybe one or more of those would be the place for listing pros / cons, etc. as opposed to the latest purchases thread?
Youâre not the person formerly known as Encephalitislerthargi are you? Sounds extremely familiar.
That is already in the plan - using four Polyend Percs to hammer the drums! 
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encephawhozis leWHATgi?
I didnât realize what the Perc was. That is REALLY cool! Four of them eh? Thatâs going to be ridiculous (in the best possible way)! Would love to hear something when you get going.
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I didnât know about the Polyend Perc either but @J3RKâs response got me to look it up.
And all I can say is âWow! This gonna be cool!â â 4 robot drummers going at it at once (on real drums I assume?).
And does 'â4â mean? 4 arms or 4 sets of 6 arms?! I assume the former, but Iâm kinda hoping four the latter, i.e. 24 independent robot arms all doing their own rhythmic thing simultaneously would be awesome to watch. So whenâs the grand opening?
Iâm trying to grok what this is physically going to look like based on whatâs on Polyendâs page:
I for one welcome our new robotic drumming overlords!
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The problem is that itâs their first product, and they no longer make it. I thought it was new too at first. I think I even got an email about it recently which kind of all came together to make me think it was a new thing. I got all excited about the possibilities, then they were dashed when I found out that it was something that I passed by because I didnât know about it.
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Another use for Polyend Percs:
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Just four. The individual units. I bought right before they were discontinued. They are awesome. And yeah, actual drums and lots of things that arenât drums. I sequence them with both MIDI and CV - depends on the project.
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So like a synth panic room. I like the sound of that. Iâd end up locking myself in indefinitely.
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