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Purchased this beauty about two weeks ago, my most expensive synth purchase at $600 used (no manuals, but in mint condition VERY mint...), and have been loving it ever since.
It's not multi, it's not polyphonic, it's got two outputs on it, and a tiny keyboard. I love her to death. I would torture anyone who took her away from me. The sounds that can come out of this thing are just awe inspiring compared to my other cheap-o equipment (IE my alpha juno 2, Korg 707, Electribe A, etc).
I have no problem with the menu system (I learned synthesis with the Alpha juno.. that's menu city), and it's laid out quite logically. Four LFO's are great, as are the four EG's (well, more like 6 or so, with the pitch and the amp EG's), and the amount of control over the thing is still unmatched IMO.
Just a few gripes with it (please don't kill me ^_^;;;;).....
1. I can't seem for the life of me to assign filter cut-off to a wheel/ribbon. This might be my own stupidity due to the fact that I don't have the manual, but still, I'd love to tweak the log having the cutoff on the ribbon, with res. on the log Y axis.
2. if you have the presets in the rom bay, why not have 256 patches availible to the user, with 128 of them non-saveable/editable. The presets are excellent, but I'd love to have both all of the presets and my memory bank at the same time (a la the alpha juno with the presets and memory space). This would be great for computer midi-interfaceless people like myself ^_^;;;;
Those are my only gripes. The rest is beautiful. I'll never sell this work of art. It's got something that I think very few modern synths have these days, which is character. You could say that you used a prophecy for the lead line, and not be shy about it. It inflicts a WAFF when you talk about it with others. It's a damn good synth, but it's not just for "electronic" music.... The simulation of the altosax sounds EXACTLY like my old saxaphone. Just need to bang it up a bit, drop it a few times, and put a crappy reed on it to make it identical. ^_^
A winner is you! Korg....
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