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Well, this is a quite good drumsynth. As one user above mentioned before it sounds more dynamical compared to the VST version. Whatever. This synth caused me some problems at the beginning - i had a faulty DSP (it was a used, bought on ebay), but after maintainance it worked fine since. Now to the important things: The RackAttack - housed and packed in MicroQ-Chassis you will probably missing some elemets on the frontpanel - the buttons which let you switch to certain types of parameters like on the MQ. But this is not a problem since there are less parameters on the RA. If you can cope with the MQ interface you you will also do it with RA. There is no problem so far, different but not "quirky". Creating a patch will be easy after a few sessions and its well designed for that. The features are plenty: 24 voices, 6 outputs (6x mono, 3x stereo, it depends on your needs), a FX unit with four types simultan, and a little onboard sequencer, 2 OSCs, 2 LFOs, 2 envelopes, FM, a nice filterunit and for a drummachine plenty modulation-options (sure, it is not a machinedrum). The sound itself is like on other waldorf-gear: impressive and with a touch of hardness, but you can also programm some very smooth drums and of course bass-sounds with very very fast envelopes (for a goa-bass in example). Pads are also possible als FX sounds, drones whatever ... it needs a bit programming-skills but it is possible with it´s sound-architecture using it as standalone-synthe. The filters, to my surprise, are sounding more clearer then on the MQ. Filtermodulation can produce some very "analog" sounds ;-) . SOmeone mentioned the word "fat", whatever it means, this is very subjectiv.
Since waldorf doesn´t develope this product anymore (the waldorf-history, insolvency ...), some things are not implemented ready. I am using the OS 1.05 beta which ads some cc-features like volume and FX-level. Other things must be done via SysEx, but this is of no concern.
A great Product overall, lets see what waldorf is up to in the future
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