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Comments About the Sounds:
This a strange little beast. It does a mediocre job of instrument emulation if you aren't trying to do a professional score. The sample set tries to cover all bases at once but just doesn't cut it for most "realistic" sounds. That is not to say that this unot sounds terrible, not by far. It is just way better as a strange sound machine. The digital resonant filters are very very cool (if somewhat coarse) and the effects section helps somewhat (especially the distortion). The AM capability is kind of weak (unfortunately) and doesn't make that much difference normally. However, this machine does really excel at making weird noises, analog like bleeps and basses and strange percussive sounds. It has the most retarded envelope structure (i.e. way too fast so no pads) I have seen but otherwise is set up ok. Only other gripe is that the MOD and PB wheels ignore the local off command so when you use this keyboard to control something else, it will follow the MOD and PB settings locally as well.