#1140

It’s cool that Make Noise is doing something like this, the artist collab. It’s akin to Fender doing a Johnny Marr Jaguar or Ed O’Brien Strat. The only downside I can see is that the sound, at least from the first demo, is so specific to Alessandro Cortini that’ll you’ll have a bunch more little Cortini babies floating around. I personally feel like his sound is so specific, yet easily copied, and this is just going to contribute to the swath of people who were previously just making stuff on Easel, and will make it even easier to cop that tone. I love his music, but personally have no desire to emulate it, as he already does it so well. My initial thought is that the machine sounds rad but you’d have a hard time NOT sounding like it if you wanted to.

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#1141

A reasonable hypothesis but still a hypothesis.

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#1142

Having been a fanboy of his over the years, I think it’s more a function of him making literally any piece of gear he touches sound like “him”.

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#1143

what i want to know is why nobody clued me into the PO-133 Street Fighter ed. now there’s a collab.

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#1144

I think that’s probably less likely to be true of Strega than the Lyra-8, and we’ll likely find that as more people demo it.

People also seem to mostly be thinking of it as “a drone synth” because that’s mainly how he was using it, but there’s that “Activation” knob which seems to be something VCA-like (although my speculation is, it’s not a simple VCA and may have a particular Make Noise twist).

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#1145

:point_up:

& of course, how one interacts with such circuits

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#1146

Having worked in numerous SaaS companies I’m going to predict that their plan is to fade the perpetual licenses out eventually. It will happen in the future even if they don’t plan to do that as of today.

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#1147

i saw a comment that mentioned the Strega being similar to an 0-coast with a Bastl Thyme built in, which is a good point. the thyme is also digital but very flexible and achieves very similar results to what i hear in the sonic state demos. i like the idea a lot, but it’s very hard for me to justify buying something with such a specific character that’s mostly only useful for abstract ambient textures, no matter how cool it is. it seems like one of those pieces of gear that does one thing really well. very interesting device though

@Starthief i always thought the medusa was a more controllable version of the lyra. i’m surprised that almost no one has one when it seems like everyone has had a lyra at one point or another. the drones you can get from that thing, especially in latch mode with all the lfo movement can be so deep and pretty

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#1148

There was a particular piece of music software for the Commodore 64 that had a sort of simultaneous polymetric sequencing, where you could treat its three oscillators as separate voices, but still play with ringmod and sync. Medusa kind of reminds me of an advanced version of that, with its relatively simple set of oscillators, single filter, two FM routings and two switchable sync routings, and parameter locks.

It’s also a great drone machine as well, and I agree it’s kind of underrated, but I don’t get the Lyra vibe from it as much.

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#1149

that sounds cool. i never used the lyra, but i feel like they are for the same purpose. or the medusa is better suited for unorthodox ambient synthesis in a similar way. love the pads on that thing. i would have probably kept it if the envelopes were snappier.

#1150

We will be going live in about an hour with this launch video - for real this time :wink: :zap:

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#1151

I’m not sure if this was posted earlier, but here is a cool psuedo-review from someone who designed presets for the Modwave:

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#1152

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#1153

My question about the delay type was ignored in the MN premiere.
I guess it will be clarified once someone will get the actual machine and will look at this inside :slight_smile:

#1154

I really feel like I’m going back and forth on it now. While it seems really cool, the pricepoint also puts it at $150 less than a Lyra which seems to be an instrument of similar qualities but with just more things happening overall. Maybe that’s a poor assessment but I’ve seen others mention similar things. The touchplates are certainly interesting and combined with a 0-Ctrl I can see it being a ton of fun. Feels like a hard maybe for me, though it has made me consider a Lyra a bit more…

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#1155

Nothing on the MN website yet about the delay (and no manual yet)

http://makenoisemusic.com/synthesizers/strega

#1156

I’m surprised that there has been no mention about when the Strega will be available to be purchased.

#1157

IIRC it was mentioned in yesterday’s video, the first few weeks of February.

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#1159

For now. We’ll see how long that lasts. It’s a standard ploy : you announce the new pricing as an optional alternative, with “no plans” to discontinue the perpetual licenses, but then you slowly start making the perpetual licenses less and less of a good deal, and ultimately phase them out entirely or price them into irrelevance, or introduce a totally new and incompatible variant of the product that is Saas-only and drop the old line and its perpetual licensing tout à coup.

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#1160

Cortini said it was a karaoke delay so pt2399? It does sound like that

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