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Average rating:
4.3 out of 5
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Ph ph pha phat! Ya, not yer best fast attacker. D&B - yes; Trance - yes, the sounds that come out of this box are killer! I have the PG-800 which makes for easier programming(a must). It can also do some very cool noises. I just bought a Nova right, but the MKS is going nowhere :)
hey Formant :)
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Ok... i have to say that if you produce trance or prog house this thing will blow the pants off of most modern virtuals... it has a traditional Roland sound because of the real analogue filters... it sounds sooooo warm and unique in that roland kinda way. I almost exclusively use mine for basslines and arpeggios... turn that resonance down all the way and you will have a sound unmatched by any modern synth. It has really nice pads too tho i dont use it for that. Get a PG-800 if at all possible when you buy it or you will have to pay too much money for one later.
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After using mostly newer, "virtual" gear, using the MKS70 is quite surprising. It has a third of the modulation possibilities, midi-controllability, and wing-dings as some other gear-- but it is truly a musical instrument. That is, you can sit and write a song using a single patch. Although it is put together very well, mine has a glitch in some of the oscillators that can be unpredictable. My understanding is that fixing this would be just too expensive. Other than this, the sound itself, the filters, the slow but expressive envelopes, and the programmer make it a great deal.
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Quite difficult to program it without the expensive PG800, sounds excellent,
very powerfull and warm sonorities, a real danger for loudspeakers...
No easy to use for techno music, maybe more suitable for real keyboardists,
but still unique sounds. I use it for melodic bass lines, some interesting FX I'm looking for some PC based editing software. help...
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MKS70.. Rackmount version of the JX10 with far better MIDI (full sysex capabilities), 50 RAM voice presets is far too few (I mean come on Roland, even a flamin` 1978 REV1 Prophet has 40) and the M64 RAM cartridges are expensive (if you can find them as they fit the MKS80 and TR909 also), the ROM presets are almost as naff as the factory RAM ones full of DX impersonations etc. BUT!!! what an excellent sounding machine, easy to edit from the panel but Plug in that PG800 programmer and you`ll have Rolands crap RAM sounds wiped over with powerful pads, washy backdrops and great atmospheric effects in no time. This machine is not particularily FAT but jeeez is it smooooooth, More `organic` than most if not all other DCO machines and capable of creating walls of sound easily. with it being a rackmount and Bi-Timbral (complete with separate MIDI channels, Splits, Layers etc) it integrates well into the 90`s Computer-sequencer generation nicely. The 70 is really an excellent buy and not much dearer than the 6-voice JX8p and a better bet than the clumsy, Midi crippled JX10 (which uses the same guts if not software).. not comparable to a Jupiter as they sound totally different and complement each other. One word of warning, when hearing one DON`T go by the presets, Like the ones in the Jupiter 6 and most Roland Analogs, they really ARE that bad.
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