Im am about to undertake my first build.I do have some soldering and electronis knowledge.
I have read through as many articles and posts as i can find, and brain can take. I work mostly in ableton but am getting to a point where iv had had enough of flicking through vst's and the endless parameters that software provides and not producing enough music! I play instruments, brass,guitar and some keys, but have very little experience with hard synths etc and dont get allot of satisfaction from tweaking parameters of vst's etc without understanding exaclty what they all do.
This project is to teach me more about the actual workings of midi and synths, without spending a huge ammount of money, all though i realise it will not be cheap, and more than anything limit my options slightly so as not to get lost in the virtual software world and improving productivity.
I jave seriously been considering mssiah and a modded c64 but am unsure about the 25yr old hardware, reliability, and usability.
The attraction of mssiah was the SID chip which i love, and also the step sequencer.
SO....i would like to include the midibox SID and a version of the sequencer into one box with the ability to add as much external conectivity as possible and not be limmeted to only using the SID as sound source, having a bank of other sounds etc.....and for the module to be usable as a stand alone synth/sequencer. will it have to exist inside the enclosure as two seperate items with two cores?
I would be very greatfull of any pointers to achive my goals, and info if this is at all possible????
Kind regards Phill