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Average rating:
4.4 out of 5
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Wonderful pads, good new-age/ambient and techno sounds. Simple synthesizer engine. The effects are really good, special. Drums sucks. Basslines ok, unfortunately the wavesamples was made in the late 80�s so it�s kinda 1988 sounds you get from it. All the time. But it�s a charming synth anyway. Can�t sell it away.
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I've just got an M1 from a friend that has lent it to me for a while, and i have to say that this machine rocks!!!! Its very easy to use and very, very solid. I have played on Tritons, Karmas... but, although the sequencing, arpregiators and other sophistications on those are out of this world, the M1 beats them all in the program editing aspect!!! There is absolutely NO sound that you can't make this machine produce!!!! Pitty it hasn't got an arpregiator!!!
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I purchased a M-1 in 1988. From the first time I played one in music store, I knew I had to buy one which I did 5 months later. The thing I liked best was its ease of use. I had purchased mine in Germany, the instruction booklet was in every language except english. I also liked the sequencer. Yes, for $2500 they could have thrown in something better, but within 2 days I had it figured out.
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I bought my M1 as soon as it came out in 1988 and have been using it 3 or 4 nights every week since in bars,clubs,recordings and for live TV work. My advice,ditch the presets and program it.If you cant program it and you are tired of the presets,sell it to someone who can!. Playing covers and backing up artists for a living,I have NEVER not been able to get a sound that I need for any particular recorded song that Im suppost to cover. If a particular sound I get is close, there will always be an on-board effect or two to apply to bring it that much closer to the original sound.Once mastered, you will be amazed at the sounds you can get.Trust me,my M1 has been with me for 13 years and its not going anywhere!
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Been gigging with the M1 for 12 years. It became a good friend after I tossed the factory patches (they're mainly sales demos of some of the cool things the board can do) and started programming layers and splits to wrestle the machine into being an instrument.
From there, started making basic programs, stacking them up into combinations. The M1 will really perform if you treat it like a synth instead of a preset box.
My advice to players who stumble into one of these for cheap is too first make sure that you can find the factory orchestra card, and some of the other cards for it. Major useful sounds (killer strings/good piano on the orchestra card) are on those cards, and in the third party patches for it.
Use those as your tutorial, and make your own programs, combinations, splits, layers. Then you'll have some real soundpower that you KNOW how to use, in a dependable, rugged keyboard.
Traded in an O1/W and one of my M1s for the Triton, and love the fact that every quirk that annoyed me about the M1 is fixed on the Triton. But the Triton has the same prob as the factory M1; the preset patches are for demoing the instrument. There's a ton of useful sound there too, but I know that once I get a few hundred original programs and combinations written in, it should be spectacularly useful. Like a mini-synclavier in a 30lb. keyboard. Amazing!
And here's the best part; when you move up the programming chain to the Triton, you don't have to re-learn a completely new interface.
Not just good software design. The M1 is the Triton's great-grandpa.
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