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The X is a mean piece it aint no MC303. Like other folks have said, you should have a computer if you really want to do the tiny shit, this shouldn't be your only piece. I use it for almost all my Loops, drums, and some Vocal stuff. I have a AKAI for the CD ROMS side of things. FX, Filters slam. The sound quality kicks ass, after normalizing and adding some boost the shit that goes in comes out sounding way phat. Just cuts through the mix.
Don't buy it for the sequencer, it does suck. The pluses are the high resolution and groove quantize. Think of it as a killer Drum Pattern Seqeuncer and you'll be pretty stoked.
Disk is slow, SCSI is buggy sometimes but that's supposed to get fixed with 2.62.
Screen is small but not a problem once you get used to it. I hate the half assed BIG screens where they look cool and easy but are freakin slow and badly laid out. Get a computer...there's tons of other justifications save yourself some grief. I wish they'd stop putting sequencers in gear. Give us more Sounds, Editing, FX, Digital I/O faster processors and other goodies instead.
The one thing I really dig about this box is that it's always being used. For drums, vocals, the Urban Card, as stand alone effect, as a poor mans Sherman FB. It just plain out does a lot of shit. For the money I paid, I thinks I made my money back EZ> In ten years, when samplers have 200 pole filters and 1kajigabytes of memory I think i'll still find something for the X to do.
ENSONIQ get the SCSI solid, add DIGI I/O and you'll get a five.
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