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Average rating:
3.0 out of 5
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I picked one of these up off of ebay for the price of good dirt, $35, and for that price, it was definately worth it! At first it was just 'alright', used it alongside my DX7IIE!, and it did well, especially since its about 20 times quicker to edit than the DX's. It has a wretchedly HORRIBLE user interface, and is a real pain in the cerebellum to figure out without a manual, but not knowing what your doing can get some interesting sounds out of it! I was using for the most part as a keyboard module, or 'ocassionaly' for pitched percussion....eventually I ran into a copy of the final OS upgrade for it, which made some heavy and very cool changes including sustain pedal, pitch wheel, and mod wheel midi control, velocity sensitivity control, an lfo assignable to pitch modulate, and a killer mono unison mode that allows you to assign each of the 6 voices to seperate midi channels, so you can basically have six seperate mono synths at once! Very cool indeed....I sold my DX7II to fund towards a K2500, and this little buddy feeds my FM addiction in lieu of it quite well, and I'm sure it will continue to until I can hock up the cash for an FS1r! I also recently started using it as percussion module along side my Tamm 500 and SDS 200, and it complements the analogs great! It IS a bit quirky to get killer percussion out of, but it's definately possible. Especially good for higher end stuff like hi hats, snares, and ethnic stuff, but I even managed to pull a super hard and tight kick out of it. Very similar in many ways to Yamaha's Tx81z, there both 4-ops, multiple types of waveforms and midi control...unfortunately no sysex control though! :( Overall, I wouldnt say it falls in line with Simmons other gear, but for a cheap price it can produce a definate bang for the buck!
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