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First off the Andromeda is still in production, nothing changed in the way these are built, supposedly they have better qc now. That said, this thing is awesome and sounds awesome well worth 2700 new if you can get a working one! No other existing keyboard made up to this point can do what it does, nor is it likely any manufacturer will produce one that does. I have had many analogue synths and opportunity to play many of the great ones,I would say this deffinatly measures up. Some say that it blows for bass, I just don’t think they have taken advantage of layering bass sounds in mix mode or experimenting with the unisonX settings, this thing can do insane mmm mmm good bass if you experiment a little. Praises said, now to the problems, I have been through 4 of these trying to get one without problems, fortunately AMS has been working with me and I have not had to pay for shipping these back to them or for the new ones to be shipped to me, they even let me hold on to the old ones till the replacement arrives so I have no downtime in the studio, 3 of them have had problems associated with 1 or more of the voices displaying strange amplifications of white noise in the pre and or post filter VCA on the “Amsterdam kick” patch, I tested this on 4 units cycling through the voices using that patch, simply put, some of the voice chips have issues with the VCA’s. Other problems I have experienced: on 2 units, If the unit is powered down during operation sometimes you will have to turn it on and off 3 to 5 times before it will boot up properly, often times it will get stuck booting up, in mix mode it seems that making too many changes and switching between voices will cause the display to get garbaged up and sometimes the OS will lock up, or voices will get stuck, the OS lock up issue was observed on 1 unit, that same unit when powered on or off would create a loud spike through the mixer.
Lots of Mix mode bugs when creating or editing patches, save your work often!
I don’t think I would buy one of these used or recommend to someone to buy a NFS one or a used one, from what I have seen first hand and read in the A6 mailing list it would be like winning the lottery to get one in perfect working order. That said,. after getting one that works perfectly I have to give it a 5 dispite the unfinished OS and high fallout rate for perfect voice chips and other problems, hopefully the OS will one day become open source
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