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I know the reviewer iz only jokin', but hey, I got one of these too, and its a pretty smooth little retro groover. The bass section is cool, really thick square wave bass is possible, enough to overdrive the speakers when its cranked. The earlt digital sounds of these casio's is quite "pure", meaning not harsh and thin, but then again, you got to love the "sound" of these early casio's to get into em', back before they started using horrible sampled acoustic sounds, you know, these are just pure digital waveforms, and thats sounds good 2 me.
The beat box built in iz fresh, and for all you analogue freakz, yeah the drum sounds are completley analogue.
And 4 all you people that love to hack into your instruments, open up ya MT-40. Off hand, i can remember there being 4 or 5 trimpots, which I have replaced with potetiometers mounted into the case. 3 of these (I think 3 anyway), alter the analogue drum sounds. One alters the rimshot decay (up to the point of self-osc), one affects the bass drum tuning....ahh...ummm, thats what i remeber off hand. There is another trimpot inside however which has some extremely drastic effects on some of the Synth sounds (depending on how they a re synthesized i suppose). It turning resembles running the sounds through a high gain distortion unit, like a rat i suppose), maybe it alters the "phase distortion", which is the type of synthesis used on the Cz series, the extremes you can achieve, similiar to the chaotic thick distorted sound of MBV'S Loveless. So, you can mock these machine if ya wish, but it can cause some serious destruction if your mad enough to hack intot he instrument, layering the bass section over this chaotic distortion can create quite a thick and powerful sound.
Just my experience with this machine :)
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