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For some reason I didn't want to believe all this bad stuff about Fizmo. Well, I should have! Next time, before I buy a synth, I will read ALL reviews and IGNORE all official brochures coming from companies. I won't write why i don't like this or that, i will just give you the FACTS:
PRICE PAID: 175$ (even that's too much)
KEYBOARD: Action is terrible, feels like some el-cheapo model from kid store.
SOUNDS: About 90% of sounds are almost the same. Doesn't matter how much you tweak those knobs, there is no much change. And yes, I can program a DX-7 so I do know how to program a synth!
VOCODER: I will just quote one user that describes exactly what I felt with it: 'Anyways, I was messing around with the faux vococder section and I really couldn't hear a change except what sounded like horns or tubas behind my voice. I asked the saleslady if she could get the vocoder to work properly and she said "that's it. you're using it right now". - In short, it's terrible! Yes, you can tweak it, and all it does is add more horns and tubas behind your voice. RESPONSE: This is not a joke. Check this out: Play some sound. Ok, now turn the main volume all the way down. But ... the sound is still playing! Then after a second it goes away. That's what you get from cheap components.
CONSTRUCTION: Base of the cabinet is constructed from some poor thin aluminum. Each time you tap it, it makes that annoying sound. Terrible construction, probably built in china in a toy keyboard factory.
MEMORY: For some reason, sometimes Fizmo won't save your hardworked sounds. And you can't recall it back - it's gone forever!! This one made me so mad ... after 3 hours of tweaking to get some kind of bass, it ended as gone. Fizmo didn’t saved it. This happened about 10 times so far.
PROCESSOR: Again, if you turn knobs, you WON'T hear instant change. Oh no! It will take 5-10 seconds, sometimes even more for parameter to change! This is so annoying, because you can't fix it!! It's all the time like that!
KNOBS: Most of knobs are not placed correctly and have plastic flaking of the edges. But that's not all - some knobs are higher than others.
DO NOT BUY THIS SYNTH unless it is cheap priced so that you can try it, and then give it to your friend as a gift. Prices above 250$ for this unit should be IGNORED. Do not do it! You will regret like most people did.
One thing I really hate are those guys who gave full price for this unit when it came out, and they can't live with the fact, they gave so much money for such a piece of crap. So they write reviews saying 'Oh yeah, the synth is so great! It's so cool'. Really? And what's exactly so GREAT about Fizmo, except the number of returned units???
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