Instruments • Re: Cherry Audio's next synth is (probably) a Polivoks on steroids

Way to build that Strawman argument,

Please, don't do that, it's so dull to attempt to turn around an observation someone just made about your post, It's literally a "no you!"

I actually do like the Atomika and have even mentioned in this this thread how I asked my brother in law to buy me the hardware Polivocks if he found one in his travels to the former Soviet Union

You mentioend that, but you also mentioned you thought it was too aggressive and had a limited audience because of this, if you follow what I've said, you would know that was my contention. How could you know how the Polivoks would compete in terms of sentimental value (which no doubt the Juno soft synths are sold on), when it was completely unknown by most people?

My entire point which you fail to acknowledge is that the Juno was popular because of its sound and the fact you could get that sound at a great value

I think it's clear you don't like the response back that the thing had but one sound really, and the value definitely added to it's popularity. See, no one is denying it didn't have a sound or wasn't popular, it's the fact it was cheap enough to maybe get ahold of that helped make it popular that somehow has you arguing with people.

You have indicated that you think Bones is correct when he sates that people in the 1980s didn't buy it for it's sound but because it was cheap, and he can't fathom why anyone likes them in 2024.

I acknowledge it had a particular sound, and it's pretty great, but I don't acknowledge that's the reason why it's popular over other synths, it was cheap enough and polyphonic, that was a hard thing to come by in 1982. You even admit above it's price played into it's popularity. Pop music 100% tends to eat itself, as soon as the DX7 hit, that was what you heard on every song. I never even thought about a Juno back then quite honestly, I wanted a sampler, Oberheim, or a Poly Moog. Personally at the time to me the sound was synonymous with glitzy new wave bands with too much reverb on everything. Now I like having a particularly low CPU using bread and butter synth in my collection.

Let's be honest here though, no one was rushing into the studio to play the Juno if there was a Fairlight CMI or Synclavier there, they might bring one in because they owned it, they had a song, and a patch that worked with that song.

Statistics: Posted by machinesworking — Thu Oct 31, 2024 5:35 am

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