Buying New VC -2 card?

[kreakleuter]

Thanks realtrance, that was the answer I was hoping for! This to me is a card worth buying, only wish I could drive the v-synth with it, but you can't have it all. Unless I buy the XT or a Varios unit, but I feel I am on a sliding slope of overspending already. (I just bought a Neuron VS ))), just couldn't help myself and I am curious how the V-synth and the Neuron compliment each other).

I'm gonna have fun with my toys, I wish the same to you, thanks again.

O, and for Hugo: check out this link for a German online musicstore Thomann, higly recommended!

http://www.thomann.de/iw_smb_suche.html ... -2&x=0&y=0

VC-2 sells for 188,- euros

bye, V

[Hugo]

Hey, that's really not a bad price! Must get it this summer
Thanks for the link, kreakleuter

[gregae]

FYI: I just picked up a VC-2 card for $189 (US) at Washington Music Center, Wheaton, Maryland.

[robi]

Thomann never made any best price offers. Go to www.touched-by-sound.com there you can get the VC-2 as well as the VC-1 Card for 179,-- Euros each.
If you live in Belgium check aut www.synthplanet.com no one will beat them. So forget about thomann...

[realtrance]

kreakleuter,

Tell us what you think once you've gotten the VC-2; I hope I have steered you right with my assessment of what the card can do.

[kreakleuter]

realtrance,

It will take some time before I buy one, maybe this summer. I had to buy cubase sx 3 first because my Yamaha 01x wouldn't function properly with cubase SE that I had before. Resources plundered but it's an improvement I hope!!!!!

Anyway you helped me make my mind up and I am sure it will do what I want it for although practise will tell how accurate it is and how well nuances can be captured like breath, volume, brightness etc. We'll see, I will let you know once I have one.

Btw. Robi: Thomann was just the first I encountered and my experience with them is good, but as you mentioned there are alot more sellers.

[kreakleuter]

realtrance,

It will take some time before I buy one, maybe this summer. I had to buy cubase sx 3 first because my Yamaha 01x wouldn't function properly with cubase SE that I had before. Resources plundered but it's an improvement I hope!!!!!

Anyway you helped me make my mind up and I am sure it will do what I want it for although practise will tell how accurate it is and how well nuances can be captured like breath, volume, brightness etc. We'll see, I will let you know once I have one.

Btw. Robi: Thomann was just the first I encountered and my experience with them is good, but as you mentioned there are alot more sellers.

[kreakleuter]

oops, sorry about the double posting. I must have been a bit too triggerhappy

just a thought on more vc-cards: I heard somewhere the rumour that Roland were thinking about making the card open source, that would be great and I suggest Roland ask the jobless Waldorfians to create a state of the art wavetable card with their famous filters on it too.
Or ask the guy from Virsyn to implement his great phoneme-synth Cantor into a vowel synthesis card and its Cube additive synth would be cool too. Otherwise the brilliant man from Camel audio could be contracted to turn his Cameleon 5000 additive/morphing softsynth into a card.
I am sure there are many such people able and willing to flex their creative muscles and give us more great tools to play with sound.
Wolfgang Palm comes to mind (the PPG Wave creator and his last creation Plex) or Stephan Bernsee, Prosoniq (the man behind the Hartmann Neuron engine).

Maybe we should start a consumerlobby/pressuregroup to ask Roland nicely but insistantly to open up their v-card policy to third party developers, it would be a double victory: because the V-synth would become a truly open platform synth it would be much more interesting to a lot more people so sales might rise making Roland happy and we can have more choice in great V-cards.

Enough dreaming, this will never happen I'm afraid:((((
Roland: prove me wrong!!!!!

[anti_pulse]

dude, you are speaking my language.... just hearing you talk about the idea of stephan bernsee making a card is sad... it's like throwing food outside of a cage to locked up animal. STOP IT! Haha. it would def be cool to make a resynthesis card much like the neuron... wet dreams.

Well I'll be your huckleberry....