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 M-Audio Gforce Oddity Arp Odyssey Modeled Synth $129.99 I had no problems installing this synthesizer. The Oddity is a basic straight-forward analog synthesizer that really needs no manual because everything you need (on-screen buttons and sliders) are right in front of you. I am sure G-Force has documentation and/or a website for any support, but I have not had to use them. I just love those old analog sounds of the original ARP Odyssey from the 70s and early 80s. A great choice if you're looking to recreate the sound of those days. I was so impressed with the Oddity, that I purchased the Minimonsta (ARP 2600 recreation with excellent reverse-color octave keys for presets, kinda like the old Hammond B3 black-key presets, the impOSCar analog synth, the VSM Virtual String machine, which includes the original ARP Omni and ARP Omni II, and the M-Tron Pro, an excellent Mellotron/Chamberlin/Birotron/etc. synth. All of these softsynths are EXCELLENT and are true to their recreation of these vintage synths. They all are included with presets and are fully programmable and user creations can be saved and recalled. I would highly recommend these synths to anyone looking for that "vintage" sound. The M-Tron Pro contains many choir/string patches used by early Genesis, and the Minimonsta has an entire bank with solely Rick Wakeman patches (including And You And I and Siberian Khatru sounds). What a collection. A+++++.  Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities $14.95 Russell Ash and Jay Lake, Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities (Harper, 2006) Not bad for what it is, a list of book titles and authors with a few choice excerpts, but I must admit I was hoping for a great deal more from this little volume. How can one not thirst for more information about Joel Best and David N. Luckenbill's 1982 classic Organizing Deviance? Or Dr. Stuart Morton's My Duodenal Ulcer and I? Unfortunately, we only get title, author, and publisher. You could track some of them down, of course, but many of Ash and Lake's titles come from the nineteenth century or before, and that might be a harder task. Still, there's lots of food for thought here (and enough toilet humor to fill, well, a book). ***  Worms: A Space Oddity $19.99 If you like classic worms game this is just perfect, but you have to consider that a few of the classic tools aren't in this game (for example rope), I supposed that this is because of the wii remote movement. Also you need to know, that if you want to play it you need a big screen TV because as the computer game, the worms are very little. I like it very much! |
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