Moog Opus 3 Synthesizer Overview
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- WARNING: yet another LENGTHY, "for synth geeks" focused vid (see menu below to select other parts of the video). Also another sort-of retro review (like the Yamaha CS-5 overview), this time with the Moog Opus 3, an underrated polyphonic/paraphonic Moog synth from the early 80's. Great for the 70's "string machine" style chorus sounds and some punchy, synthy sounds running through that 24dB Moog filter. Though the synth is a bit limited in capability, it makes up for it in the "how it sounds" department.
00:00 Intro
03:12 The Strings Section
08:08 The Organ Section
12:00 The Brass Section
16:35 Modulation and Running the Organ thru Filter and Chorus
25:05 The Articulator (VCA) and the Output Mix
And just in case it wasn't clear the couple times I mentioned it in the video, the reworked ProckGnosis opening theme was done entirely with the Moog Opus 3 and some Reason drums.
Gulden Draak! You are officially awesome. Greetz from Belgium.
Bedankt! Ik heb in België gewoond. Natuurlijk drink ik Belgisch bier, als ik kan. Maar in Duitsland is het niet zo gemakkelijk te vinden
Gorgeous sounding synth with a somewhat bizarre interface, but it looks fun to experiment with. Thanks for another cool video! Always enjoy the relaxed style you do them in.
Yeah, it's good on its own, but it REALLY comes alive with a little quality chorus and reverb. Sounded fairly decent with the Leslie effect as well. It could nicely hold its own in a LOT of recordings, which, again, is why it's ironic that so many people dismiss this synth so easily. En alsjeblieft!
Marc Weerts bizarre??
Great video and very informative. I love the look of the Opus 3, very unusual design.
Thanks. Yeah, this puppy is about as one-knob/one-function as you can get, which really makes it a joy to play with. The epitome of "hands on"...
the whole routing too me... is very odd.
I still love my opus. I use it all the time! The strings sound beautiful
Yeah, the string sounds with the thick chorus are just classic. My favorite is running the organ, with a less bright tone, through the chorus on high. It's a little less harsh than using the string oscillators, and quite spacey sounding.
Thank you so much for this excellent MOOG OPUS 3 overview! Sounds awesome!!
Not a prob and glad you enjoyed it.
I sold mine in 2019 :( I regret that very much now. It was such a wonderful machine. So responsive to play and with such a lively beautiful sound. There aren't really any substitutes for this thing.
Lovely to hear this sound again in your video :) (I have lots of old music I made over the years with it, but I never recorded it 'clean' like this (On its own) so very cool video. Definitely one for history :)
Yeah, mine needs some servicing again, but I'll definitely keep it until it permanently kicks the bucket.
Man i absolutly geeked out on this video. Excellent video and demo and overview. P.S. i must look for that belgian bottle of swig , im on it !!!!
Thanks...it was a mess when I originally recorded it. After a serious editing effort, I was able to clean it up a bit and give it some flow. That's part of why it feels like it jumps around in places. And good luck finding the Westvleteren. Someone told me they were increasing production (it's just a bunch of beer brewing monks in Belgium) so it might be easier to find this year.
Great overview, brother. I think the synth sounds very nice. The bad thing about the Internet and magazines is that when someone decides to label a synth "bad" for X o Y reason, the next sheep-minded reader will automatically do so and spread that bad opinion. It's like a negativity cancer. I truly believe it has to do with some kind of "small man complex" akin to what most watch collectors I see posting in online forums suffer. They cannot appreciate what is beautiful by itself. If it is not Swiss-Made or doesn't have a really complex movement or its not ludicrously expensive, they label it trash.
A true music or synth enthusiast will find good sound where it is, if there is any, on ANYTHING regardless of how complex the structure or how many oscillators it has. What sounds good SOUNDS good because it does, not because the person elitistly thinks and decides, "It sounds good...BUT I SAY IT DOES NOT." **stomps foot on ground like a small man** They will not admit it because of their inflated ego! Their personality is based on what they read and believe from OTHERS. They cannot think on their own. They belong to a collective mentality. Such smart people (because this hobby requires some brain), and they waste it by hating based on the hate of others. The synth world would be better without these hateful, sheep-minded tainters of all that is good.
I heard the intro and quickly thought, "Wow, that sounds freakin' great! What synth might it be?" Why? Because my ears heard, not my ego. It sounded rich and beautiful to my uncolored ears and my unopinionated mind. It sounded new and fresh. Then you said it was made by the Opus. So I thought, "No wonder, because the synth is sounding good when he plays it." So evidently and thanks to God, I am not infected by SED (Synth Elitist Disease). SED is EVERYWHERE. You notice it when people say, "X o Y synth sounds so thin and plasticky"...and the synth sounds neither thin or plasticky. Have you ever seen that? You go like, "But...it's...rich and thick. What...is wrong with this fellow?" **scratches and tilts head**
They are just repeating what another repeater said. They are repeating towers of synth hate virus! Keep it up, brother. You bring freshness to the table! Blessings!
Thanks, and very true. I've seen people make awesome music with some fairly cheap or limited synths. To a very large degree, you get out of it, what you creatively put into it. And some folks just love to stir the pot, poke the bear, etc. merely for the heck of it. Never understood until much later in life, but some people prefer negative attention to no attention at all.
Except many of those people would deny it and focus on some detail like the square tooth wave. It's basically like analog vs digital/virtual analog, which are for the main both mass produced items anyway, as opposed to the old idea of quality (the most expensive, custom made tho not necessarily reliable) vs Deming/japanese idea from the 70s that Quality= elimination of defects
Fascinating instrument and a great sound to it too!
Yeah, by today's standards, it's kind of minimal for what it can offer, but also by today's standards, there's not much other hardware out there to scratch this itch. I appreciate it a LOT more now than when I got it 25 years ago.
Interesting. I used to play one on stage back in the early 80's. Just local nightclub bands. I had a couple others but at one time it was my only synth, sitting on top of a Rhodes 73-key suitcase. Brings back some memories for sure! Thanks
You're welcome. That's part of my intent with covering old synths like this...an act of preservation for folks who will never get to screw around with one. I suspect you used it mostly for the string sounds, but I remember seeing some young kid play it in a band (half the band wasn't even able to legally drink), around '87 or '88, and he was using it almost strictly for organ sounds. Now that I think about it, this was the only keyboard he was using. They were kind of a cross between The Smithereens, The Who, and Elvis Costello. Probably got it fairly cheap back in the age of the DX7 when real analog was still frowned upon.
Ayyyyy Turn it on again and Squonk!
Was actually thinking of getting this for some Genesis organ/string sounds. I have been playing Squonk with a Korg Minilogue for the lead part, got pretty darn close to the Arp pro soloist sound.
Yep...big Genesis/Tony Banks fan. He definitely made the most of the Arp Pro Soloist. I remember being surprised that most of his mid-70s solos were performed with that.
Belgium represent! Nice video
Bedankt, merci, und danke! (I had to get all 3 official Belgian languages)
love it, also love the beer review
Thanks much. Who can't appreciate a good synth and a good beer?? : )
@@ProckGnosis makes think about that mid 70's sheaffers beer commercial with the guy who did the price is right music,playing a moog
@@gsprings43 Hmm...I'll have to look that one up.
thanks mane I use this synth and you showed me some sick sounds
Good deal...it is a great sounding synth!
Sounds awesome :)
It is nicely "very analog"!
Thanks for this and Cheers!
Glad you liked it. It's definitely a cool synth.
great video. really pro level
Thanks...love the synth, so I must have been inspired!
So versatile!
Versatile for a studio environment where you have time to tweak and play with it, I agree, but in a live situation, I expect I would prefer some other options.
Grrrrrr...melancholical times appear again......had one, decades ago and missed some knobs (second hand at the time), but developed some form of real love for the OPUS III (though mine, way back then, already had also some clicking things goin on). My main inspiration for wanting to have such MOOG sound under my fingers, was the album 'In Search Of Ancient Gods' by Absolute Elsewhere. I got the unique chance to purchase the piece, together with a Yamaha CS 30, for a very, very low price (can you imagine this, now, some decades further in time?). Both of these machines went out again, for some bugs more, already, back then, but I always regretted it so much, caus I later on realized how very rare and unique these were. But, no tears, caus we always have a nice beer (living next to Belgium) here in The Neths :-} Thx for a very delicate video, SIr.
Bedankt en graag gedaan RICHart V. En hoe gaat het? Toen ik jonger was heb ik in Duitsland op de grens gewoond, en ik heb een beetje Nederlands geleerd. And yes, you're right that Belgium has the better beer.
I'm sorry for your loss. It is weird that I'm MUCH more able to appreciate the Opus than I did 25-30 years ago. It was just luck that I didn't sell it back then. Maybe because recording software/technology lets me use it more creatively than I could with an old 4-track cassette recorder. Or I just like the sound more now...I'm not sure. Coincidentally, this and a Yamaha CS5 were my first analog synths, though a Casio CZ-1000 was my first synth in general, and the first one that I gigged with.
Haha, thx! Zo gaan die dingen in het leven: spijt achteraf, alleen maar om die paar extra centjes, die men toen 'blijkbaar' nodig had! Germany has not bad beer also!
The OPUS III was an amazing instrument and at the time, you had these fantasies of making 'space music'...I'm not a vst/software type, but want to really experience the organic approach. Back then, I also had more time to record and all this in a period of having had a huge synthpark...some new, most of them second-hand.
Inspiration from JMJ, ofcourse (this 'most positive human of all', stands above life, in all he produces, thinks and so on, starting round 1977). Thanks, pale...play along!
Great video. I just re-discovered my old Opus 3 on a shelf in a closet yesterday. I dropped it off to have it checked out and cleaned up, I'm curious to see how it's held up over the years. After seeing what people are trying (key word, trying) to sell them for online, I assumed that I would turn it into a down payment on a new car. But after watching this, I think I might play around with it and see if I can incorporate into my live gigs. We do a couple of Cars tunes that might have a place for this.
When I first got this, I just didn't appreciate it that much. What I really wanted was a decent monosynth to do leads and basses, which I finally got a few years later. The Opus just seems SO much cooler nowadays.
What an interesting Moog. I was only 11 years old when this puppy would have come out. I actually like the sound of the organ. Run it through a leslie and as I type this you do it.... I must say I would love to get one that was in really good shape (I know they probably do not exist and if it does probably costs more than a Ferrari). Again thank you for sharing it with us.
Glad you found it interesting. It is unabashedly an analog synth, and if you like analog sounds, this definitely scratches the itch. It also has a very cool personality, I think.
And actually used Opuses were still way under a $1000 when I made this, though I expect they've likely gone up in price a bit since then.
As it happens lozs ive still got mine from the seventies and it still sounds Awesome and is in very good condition for its age
Top!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷meu vizinho tinha um quando eu era garoto.....bela apresentação dessa linda máquina!!!!!
Obrigado. É um ótimo sintetizador!
This is the sound of low budget VHS previews and 80s educational videos.
Awesome video, btw. All of yours are great. Cheers!
Lol...if you're from the US, then you'll understand when I say a LOT of PBS shows and documentaries 40 years ago had similarly low-budget sounding, synth soundtracks that probably used synths like this.
I got lucky on eBay. I bought one for $450 total as a repair. I connected it and works fine. The seller must have put the headphones in the line out and think it didn’t work. There’s not enough juice in the line out to push headphones.
Damn...you DID get lucky. Don't think I've seen a fully functioning Opus 3 for less than $800-900, but then I also haven't been following the prices much in the last year or so.
Sweet score. That is amazing.
A 70’s rocker practically gave one to me in the early 2000’s. $200 for the Opus 3 and a massive PA. She still works great, but needs a cleaning.
this is fcking awesome. I am 100% getting one. Prolly gonna have to fix some stuff... but that will be such a great reward or price.
@10.45 - Turn it on again by Genesis, by the sounds of it!
Oh yes...I'm a big Tony Banks fan (Genesis keyboard)
Nice review! At the time the Opus 3 was introduced, I wasn't that impressed, but it would be fun to have one now. One question, did the Opus 3 have individual outputs for each section? That wouls be a great feature, especially for adding different effects to each section. Lots of potential for a big sound! Once again, I enjoyed your review.
Thanks. Yeah, it's weird that it seemed so lackluster when it came out, but seems so cool now! As a solo performing synth (for gigging), it's really not that great...the real strength is crafting something with it in a studio setting. You can build really thick arrangements, with some very analog sound components...and thick in a way you can't get from playing just the synth alone, which is how most people probably used it when it came out.
No, there aren't individual outputs for each section, but there are 2 outputs for stereo and a 3rd output for mono. You could at least have 2 dedicated outputs for 2 of the 3 sound-producing sections by hard panning one section right and the other hard panned left to the stereo outs. And 2 out of 3 ain't bad (according to Meatloaf).
Thanks for the reply, and remember to review synths responsibly 8-)
for individual outputs look somewhat similar korg trident
it's actually a stepped saw made from adding footages. filter smooths of course...
Hey man, beautiful demonstration. Im from mexico and they are ofering me a change for my juno 60. Im so fordward looking for a monophonic so Moog was my first option. My question is, does this synth gives that moog fat freq for bass lines or lead solo? Because thats what im looking for to get my set up complete.
Muchas gracias! Beunos dias from the north. My response to your question would be "sno" ("si" and "no"). It can get some Moog-like bass because of the classic filter and resonance, but because 1) it only has one oscillator per single note, and 2) the articulation/play-ability isn't as good as a mono synth, it's not as good at leads or basses as one of the Moog mono synths. Something like a Moog Sub Phatty, Little Phatty, or Slim Phatty, which you could get used for a good price, would be better than the Moog Opus 3 for leads and basses. And if you don't need a Moog specifically, there are some other good options like the Novation Bass Station II, the Behringer Model D and Neutron, and the Korg Monologue, all for less than $500, and they all do great with leads and basses.
thank you so much for your time for taking the time to answer my friend. Ill keep saving the bucks then.Though of the bass station, gonna have to try it. Saludos!!
I love the chords you are playing around 7:45
There is one of these posted on my local Craigslist for $600- but the chorus and strings don't work. Still tempted, lmao
Thanks! Have to admit the chorus is half the reason I would buy this again. The nice Moog filter would be the other.
if the chorus is dead then the strings wouldn’t pass through, it uses BBD delay lines
The weird and rare moog synths are the best.
They did come up with some cool stuff that was definitely overlooked.
The strings sound wonderful. Just add a Small Stone for instant 70s !
Yeah, that string-machine chorus effect is just awesome. I still can't believe some company hasn't jumped on producing hardware that can reproduce that effect
@@ProckGnosis The ensemble effect on some Nord Synthesizers is a great digital reproduction and is capable of sounding like the Solina, the Opus 3 or the String Melody. I can tell because I own all three of them and a Wave 2. The Wave is only lacking a top octave sound generator, but the overall string sound is so lush and variable that it also can sound as the exaggerated Streichfett chorus. I also managed to get that classic raspy effect plus phaser out of the Deepmind 12 effect section.
But there are really many digital synths which are capable of producing some ensemble sound, but not a creamy one, although they have a great effect section. E. g. the otherwise very warm sounding good old Yamaha EX5 or Korg 01/W. Greetings from Germany🤝
Charly García's Yendo de la cama al living sound!
given half the opportunity,I'd buy one. even with the glitch's( which are most cool). compared to today's stuff,which reminds me of the 80's stuff; this is great. reminds me of the movie The Questor Tapes. which has one of my favourite sound tracks.
Wow...had to look that one up, though after I read about it, I vaguely remembered watching it at some point. Probably late night reruns in the late 80s. Found it in German on UA-cam. Interesting soundtrack and very much of the time.
ProckGnosis yes my German is awful. it's more Yiddish. I looked up something; the organ sounds with the chorus is prominently featured on many of Parliament/Funkadelic's songs. I always thought it was one of those string machines like the solina. no it's this guy here. now I've really got to have one. thanks large amount for playing the sound at just the right time to hear it
Yeah, I know there were a lot of string-machine like synths in the 70s, with similar saw-wave based engines (just like the string section on the Opus), but I haven't heard as many like the Opus organ section with 5 octaves of square waves. When that's running through the old chorus it's ethereal almost and just slightly different from the rest.
Sim leslie is great. Too bad you can’t get a sim speed control for the oscillating horn. Genesis sounded great
Thanks. It is a bit under-powered, but it's still a unique and very cool synth. Yeah, the thing sounded a lot better than I guessed it would through the Leslie rotary effect.
If anyone knows a way to midifie this moog opus 3 please let me know
Yeah, I have heard of no midi mods for this thing, but I'm all ears if someone else has...
sold. i want one!
Yeah, given technology and manufacturing improvements, not sure why someone couldn't make something like this for a pretty good price. That old "string machine" chorus effect would be worth half the price alone.
the first note and i'm like "oh, tim gane"
Yeah, this has that low-fi, early-synth vibe Sterelab loved.
Do you do synth request if so Ensoniq SQ-80 I know you would some amazing things with it.
Nope. No Ensoniq SQ-80 experience or access. Did have an "Ensoniq SQ-1 Plus" and an "Ensoniq FIZMO" a few years ago, but they're long sold.
Aww well thanks for replying man I appreciate it and keep up the amazing work.
ProckGnosis SQ80 is great. So is Fizmo but very difficult to program from the front panel. Sold it for a Waldorf XTK. MUCH better wavetable synth.
Have to say I'm not a big wavetable synth nut. The FIZMO was cool, but you're right, it was not as "one-knob / one-function" as it looked, a bit of a pain to program, and when I couldn't get the PC editor to work anymore, for me it wasn't worth keeping. Was looking for more of a knob-controllable VA when I bought it, and lucky enough to turn a profit on it when I sold it (and I had bought it new), so all worked out in the end.
So Moog DID make a polyphonic synth at some point!!
Why the hell dont they do it now??
Well, it wasn't exactly a truly polyphonic synth. Because all voices shared the fame filter and filter envelope, as a synth it's considered paraphonic. Moog also made the Polymoog, which was similar to the Opus 3 (divide down voicing with a shared filter). The only truly polyphonic synth made by Moog was the 6-voice Memorymoog, which did sound pretty good, but I've read it was a pain to maintain. That being said, you would think they (Moog) could make something simple like the Opus 3 AGAIN, and it would sell like hotcakes.
Though a bit technical in places (for non-techy types), here's a good article on the paraphonic and polyphonic concepts for synths in Sound on Sound:
www.soundonsound.com/techniques/introducing-polyphony
Looks like you got your wish with the Moog One. For a price: $8000. It is a beast!
@gridsleep Let me correct your two errors. First, the Sonic Six is a monophonic synth. Second, you didn't mention the Memorymoog.
polymoog and memorymoog would like to have a word with you
What synth was used for your intro music?
Drums were from Propellerhead Reason but the rest is all multitracked Moog Opus 3
@@ProckGnosis Thanks. Sounds great
Was this the synth genesis used?
Not that I'm aware of. Tony Banks (Genesis keyboard player) did use an ARP Quadra, which was a synth built around a similar concept to this, but was a bit more capable (and better sounding in my opinion).
I've met the Opus 3 designer, Professor Herbert A. Deutsch (the man who purchased a Moog Theremin kit before seeking out soon-to-be-Doctor Robert A. Moog and suggesting he try coming up with new ideas for electronic equipment, hence: the Moog Synthesizer) several times. Apparently, this synth's working name was "S.O.B." for strings-organ-brass, but Moog Music's parent company, Norlin Inc., shot that name down. (Mark Vail should interview Herb Deutsch for Keyboard Magazine and couch questions about the Opus 3, as well as The Source.)
I used to imagine getting hold of this model and utilizing it as a combo organ, considering its partial likeness to a Yamaha YC4 and Farfisa Compact.
Incidentally, only a purist would criticize that Propellerhead Leslie simulator!
Funny and interesting backstory. I had read somewhere that for the most part, this was Herb's baby. Amazing how we can perceive "limitation" at one point (analog technology or even a limited set of features like the opus had) and later it turns into admiration for "filling that niche" like nothing else.
Yeah, the Props Rotary effect is pretty good, and when it came out, I would have said it was one of the best I had run across, but different companies just keep upping the realism. It's pretty amazing.
It's also amazing how that realism is still not enough for people who need to see/feel the rotors in motion. I miss my Hammond E Organ and single-speed Leslie 31H, but the simulator in the Roland V Combo I currently use when I perform is plenty realistic for me. (It's no Opus 3, but what is?)
Having never put my hands on anyone's string synthesizer, only played back the sampled/modeled sounds in digital synths, I can only listen to the tracks and imagine how it fills the niche. There's a song by the British band Keane called "It's Not True" which ends with classic synthesized strings like this baby produces. They likely didn't use an Opus (more likely a Solina String Ensemble), but the point is definitely there.
Are you using the Roland VR-09? Had I known that had the same SN Organ as the FA-06, I would have likely bought that instead of the FA-06. I was playing in a classic rock group, and I needed something that was half-way decent for organ with some other bread-and-butter sounds. Up to that point I'd been using modules (had a Nord Electro 2 and the Ferrofish B4000+ that I both tried), but I wanted to simplify to one keyboard as I was mostly singing. Was kind of disappointed when I learned you couldn't midi-CC control the drawbar settings on the FA-06, making the REAL drawbars on the VR-09 even more appealing. BUT...the band kind of fizzled out, I moved back to the states, and to be honest, my "classic rock live" gear set up (the FA-06 with an Akai Miniak for classic 70s synth leads) sadly hasn't seen the light of day since...
The VR-09 likely has the same virtual organ. Can't confirm that, but I'm guessing it's an updated version of the VR-7 from 2005. Its Leslie simulator is no slouch. It's also got the same virtual synthesizer engine (albeit with limited accessibility) as the Jupiter 80, and its simulations of classic Jupiter, Juno, JX and SH models are pretty convincing. All this powered by either a wall wart or eight AA batteries.
What became of the Opuses 1 and 2?
I'm pretty sure the "3" in the name was to indicate there were 3 different parts to the synth...the strings, the organ, and the brass. If someone knows differently, I'm all ears.
That was a joke on my part, but makes sense!
@@MuzixMaker Lol, I assumed it was, but I've actually seen a few questions about where the 3 came from. Thought there was a Herb Deutsch (Opus 3 designer) interview I read where he talked about it.
@@ProckGnosis Herb was my father-in-law and he would have absolutely loved this video. If I remember, the 3 refers to the 3 sections in the middle. Herb was hoping that they could call it the “S.O.B.” for “Strings, Organ, Brass” but that idea was vetoed.
@@michael_sterling Cool story and sorry for your recent loss. I'd heard the SOB part somewhere before, and I still think it's a shame they didn't go with the name!
Stereolab in a nutshell..🙂
Yeah, there is some irony that bands in the early 90s made even better use of old, cheap synths, than folks did when those same synths were brand new (and more expensive). Really cheap, used analog synths nicely shaped the sound of quite a bit of stuff in the late 80s and early 90s.
So the band is just the sum of their instrument 😴
I had more fun with the Opus 3 and a Thomas spinet organ, back in the day, than I have with any other instrument I've ever owned.
That was back when you were still hanging out with Bruce Banner, eh? Bad joke...sorry. How was it gigging with it? Were you actually building sounds on the fly or did you mostly use it for organ and strings? Love the thing, but can't see playing live with it being too easy.
Great joke, actually. Anyhoot, I've been more of a recording guy than a gigging musician. For any live gigs, I've always been lead guitar and lead vox. I loved the Opus 3. I have an MS20 mini and a microKorg now and they just don't excite me the way the Moog did. Even my SH101 and Sequential Circuits 6 Trak had to take a back seat to the Opus in the day.
Wow...serious endorsement of the instrument there, but I get where you're coming from. As I mentioned in a couple recent reviews, I'm getting tired of menu diving while crafting sounds. This thing is about as "menu-less" as you can get, it's a blast to do synthy studio productions with, and the core sound is great.
I remember sometime in the mid 80's, a music store had boxes upon boxes of Opus 3's stacked outside on asphalt in the hot July sun. They couldn't get rid of 'em at the blowout price of $125 each. You take for granted that things will always be within reach. If I knew then...
Wow...that's kind of painful to hear. And you have to wonder where they all ended up.
In it's time, it was the BEST keyboard for a gigging musician. You could cover so many parts from records (flutes, strings, horns, synths) closely enough. I was in a top 40 covers band and this and a little Yamaha CS01 were good for all the keyboard basics except piano!
Yamaha CS01!! I almost bought one in a pawn shop MANY years ago. Around the same time I did end up buying a CS5 for $40, if I remember right. Yeah, both that and the Opus would cover most of what you need, as long as you didn't mind getting busy between songs, sliding sliders and flipping knobs to change patches/sounds. Never gigged with my Opus...my first gigging synth was a Casio CZ-1000!! Being a vocalist, presets were massively helpful.
Pure analog and No menus, nice !!!
Yeah...no replacing the LED screen on this one when it burns out or worrying about the firmware upgrade you haven't done.
ProckGnosis Other great points as well. Great video and review
ProckGnosis You think anyone will ever make a new pure analog synth like the minimoog d without all the menus, led screen, built in kitchen sink, no memories, etc? Behringer model d looks good But heard an issue staying tuned. tnx
sounds rad. think im gonna buy a waldorf streichfett
Well, after playing with this again, I can understand why some people might want a Streichfett. It's not quite the same, but it's a decent alternative.
I have both (plus many other old stringers), but the Streichfett („Streichinstrumente“ in german means „strings“) sounds harsh because the ensemble modulation depth is to strong. Nord Lead A1 and Nord Wave 2 have depth control like the Opus 3 ( and perfect speed control) and can simulate every traditional ensemble chorus - and also the exaggerated Streichfett.
am i hearing a little genesis in there?
LOL...sort of...you're hearing some badly played Genesis, which is close but not quite the same thing. Bonus points if you can name the songs!
Squonk and turn on again 😊 ... beer + Genesis = Heaven . Nice video Bro ! ✌️
Bedankt! Ik geloof je kan ook een beetje Genesis spelen, toch?
your playing 4 notes at a time - thought it was supposed to be 3 notes only ????
Actually the Opus has full polyphony!
@@ProckGnosis what is "full p.." ? - does this mean all keys can play at once
ok thanks - i figured it out - "divide down" system - just not mentioned on wiki
Yeah, it was this synth that prompted me to research and understand how divide down technology worked.
sounds like final fantasy 7 :0...
Back when that came out, this synth used was still probably fairly cheap. I remember seeing it for less than $100 in the early 90s.
Compared to other similar combo synths like the Trident, Orchestrator, RS505, etc, the Opus 3 and Siel Cruise just sound like pure trash to me. I’ve owned them all and keep trying to like the Opus and Cruise but….. yuck.
Orval is far better
I won't argue it's not a good beer...