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Average rating:
4.7 out of 5
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I have the an1x for two years now. It is a great synth, amazing sound, versatile. Every day I discover new sounds. Great for D&B, techno. The interface is very user friendly (I know most of you disagree). Once you know where the parameters are, there just one push on a button a a twist away.I just love it
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This keyboard is sweet and well worth the money I payed for it. I managed to find one on ebay. I also own a Korg MS2000 and a Yamaha CS2x(which I bought before and somewhat of a hasty purchase). If the keyboard interface is mind boggling then you will be happy to know that for the computer nut there is a software interface. And it's a great program and could even help you understand what is going on as you are working on a sound or at least make things easier for you visually. It is indeed a very versital keyboard. When I first checked out about buying another keyboard I noticed reading the comparisons to the Roland JP8000 but the thing is each keyboard does have it's uniqueness. Roland has it's keyboard which may have their distinctive sounds and Yamaha as well. The casing is funky looking but not good for wear and tear just don't expect to through it around (wink). For the price you will find this keyboard for on ebay it's a great little keyboard to get started with if not the only with these range of va synths. I most definitely recommend it. It can be deep sounding. Careful with the speakers :) Excellent range of fx, pads, strings, etc can be created on this thing. Buying it is the easy part discovering it is another experience altogether.
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I've owned an AN1x for about a year and a half now, having purchased one shortly after the great price drop. Since then I've owned (or continue to own) a Microwave XT, a Nord Modular, an EA-1, and a slew of softsynths... Certainly there are obvious faults with the AN1x: limited poly and a difficult-to-use multitimbral mode being chief among them. The simply amazing thing, though, is the sheer versatility of the machine. I've never, ever grown bored with it, and I've yet to find another VA which managed to match it in both versatility and sound. The advantage of adding an AN1x to your collection isn't in its "phat basses" or pads - although they are definately there. It's the fact that its character isn't limited to those things. It can make lovely strings, pads, basses, leads, and sound effects, and with the plentiful controls and ribbon controller, just about everything in between. It's simply stunning, and a true joy to play. I think, in an age of 16-part VA's and 6 or 7 effects per part, the AN1x feels much more like a complete instrument than simply a DSP stuffed inside a box. Well worth investigating.
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This is a great synth for almost every kind of sounds. Lush pads, warm strings, hard basses, wierd noise and blipps. It's cheap, easy to program (with the an1xEdit) and it sounds warm and clean. It's the heart in my studio and i can spend hours tweeking one sound to get it just the way i want it. If you don't like to program from scratch there's a great software called Genetix. Genetix takes 2 patches and greates a bank (128 patches) with blends of the 2 patches. The result is you get 128 new sounds! Most of them might be crap, but if you edit som of them you can get wonderfull new patches, with less work than doing them from scratch. This is a great software and it can create new interesting sounds.... anyway the an1x is cheap and it's great for techno, house, dnb and ambient. BUY IT!
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I've had this thing for a while now...it has lasted longer in my studio than many others (Prophecy, Orbit, Sirius), and I recently got some good analog (Jupiter 6 & Akai AX80)...this thing can really do some crazy, mean sounds! And so clean! Well...dirty and clean, but not the same kind of obscene dirt as say the Jupiter 6 - Clean dirt :)
Really though, I first got this a while back, and downloaded a bank from the Teklab site (yes you can load and save banks and send them via midi into the AN1x) of Dark Jungle Basses made by this great programmer - forgot his name - and heard what was possible! With those as guidelines (and a decent manual with step by setp instructions for voice creation), I have got some bass sounds that will rip your head off! Ed Rush/Optical basses - no problem! Full Cycle - no problem! Any kind of hard-as-nails bass can be made and you can get them as punchy raw/dirty screaming as you like.
The presets are OK...the only one I really, really like is Fat Glide - a nice rubbery 303 bass that I've actually used in a track.
One thing that makes this stand out, and REALLY stand out is the Ribbon Controller. You cannot believe how much you can do with that thing. Directionally sensitive as well as Pressure sensitive, your patches really get expressive. I love using it to get that morphy - new breaks bass sound. It's like you can feel yourself squishing out the voices and swirling them around.
The one minus is that there is no Octive Up/Down button...so what you see is waht you get.
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