to buy questions. I've done a bit of research so I hope I'm not
asking anything too obvious.
I'm a long time amateur synthesiser/keyboard player.
I haven't been playing much in recent years due to a degenerative
condition that causes calcium lumps in fingers, making it painful
to play.
I'm looking to get a cheaper theremin to evalutate if I can
play music with it rather than just making noise.
Ideally I'd like to have some way to control other synthesisers,
CV out or MIDI, but I'm not exactly going to try and purchase an
EtherVox at this point in time. Getting something more expensive
in the future isn't out of the question.
Exactly how bad is that cheap Gakken Premium ?
I'm guessing it has a smallish pitch field, cramping up
the note spacing (or limiting octave range?)
making it harder to play? How is it for linearity?
Here is someone coaxing a reasonable performance out a Gakken:
Gakken Premium (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjZhpUrhsZI&feature=related)
The obvious reasonably priced theremin is the Etherwave plus
with CV outs. Does anyone have any experience with CV to MIDI
devices that would work well with a theremin?
The Burns B3 Deluxe looks attractive for the price, but as
a synth player it kind of rankles being restricted to a single
timbre.
Is a pitch to MIDI device a suitable substitute for lack of CV out
on a B3? I have heard of people using Sonuus G2M Guitar-To-MIDI
device with theremin.
After the guitar demo a bit of non-musical theremin GM2 demo here:
GM2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWaNlcXuGmI)
Gakken + Sonuss G2M would be a pretty cheap MIDI theremin.
Wavefront make a fancier Pitch to MIDI/CV box.
B3 Deluxe versus Etherwave Plus pitch linearity, which one
is more linear? Old postings seem to indicate that the B3 has
improved over it's original model and that the Etherwave
can be also be "tweaked" to make it more linear.
Besides the Gakken Premium, B3 Deluxe and Etherwave Plus
is there anything else at the lower end of the 2 antenna
pre-built theremin market that I might consider?
Are these Subscope theremins currently available?
Subscope (http://www.subscope.de/theremin/sites/tube.html)
Greg O.