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Average rating: 4.8 out of 5
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satomi a professional user from italy writes:
Great machine. Bought it in 2000 and I still use it today. The strings section sounds used in layer with a piano master are still the best you can find in the market today in my opinion. Same thing for pads like EVOLUTION, HI-TECH BED ecc. The piano expansion also contains some killer Rhodes sounds with that "analog" feel not so easy to find on Japanese gear. Very raccomanded I think for NU SOUL/R'N'B producers/arrangers. For the swedish guy, if you're still looking for a new 1, they have a still NEW 1 (never sold I think) in a store in Parma (Italy) called Davoli.

Rating: 4 out of 5 posted Monday-Oct-01-07 at 04:04
örjan a professional user from sweden writes:
The mr-rack is the best synth I've owned so far. Sounds are dynamic, in a way that no other synth is capable of, especially played through a large PA-system. Amazingly great piano (and all the rest too). Wish I had the piano expansion, but these days you can't even get contact with ensoniq? In Sweden - seems hopeless anyway. Compared the sound today with a Yamaha Motif 88-key. Surpasses this by far.

Now my MR is flipping out. It was never any good at midi response, and the 64 voices was never available, perhaps I have a bad ex., don't know. The system doesn't work today, don't know what to do. Get a new one, I guess, but I will really try the polyphony out then.

This unit is sensitive to magnetic fields. No synth I've owned reacts this way to light-equipment (dimmers etc.) on stage, which is a trouble in professional environments.

Rating: 5 out of 5 posted Monday-Aug-28-06 at 18:25
Tony Prowse from New Zealand writes:
I purchased this module for $250(NZ) What a great sounding synth has a brighter display and equal in sound quality to my Proteus 2000 Unable to source pcm or expansion boards .

Rating: 5 out of 5 posted Monday-Jul-11-05 at 04:06
matt a professional user from uk writes:
The mr rack is a fogotten gem.Soudn slike shite with the presets.Its basically like ppg x a wavestation.I have the world rom . . if your an electronica heada nd like to program this will blow you away . . . mind blowing parameters in multi mode allow 16 parts - all with custom tunings , wavesequencing (transwaves ) individual pan and delay for each part (so you cna creat totally out there stepping and syncing compsoitions . . . .if you use sounddiver and know how to program this synth with blwo you away . . .with the world rom it can do some mad mad tribal stuff . . like jungle windmill sounds ! mad talking flute sequences in balinese tuings and all sorts . . .as good as the wavestation but better in other ways.A forgotten gem.

Rating: 5 out of 5 posted Wednesday-May-25-05 at 16:51
Oprah a part-time user from Chicago writes:
This is a really great unit especially for the price.

Perfect for real instrument sounds. Piano's organs, drums, basses, percussion, strings are mostly excellent.

Also has a really easy to use interface. I was creating songs with this after having it about two days.

While I love programming, sometimes it's great to have ready made sounds at your finger tips.

Blows away anything in double or maybe even triple it's price range. (I paid $425)

Rating: 5 out of 5 posted Monday-Oct-29-01 at 15:35
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