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My belief is that this is without a doubt the best buy for a new synth today. I haue owned one since early this year; I was searching for a suitable replacement
for my Sequential Circuits Six-Trak, which I did not wish to haul to gigs any longer(I was enuisioning a fatal drop onto concrete while unloading it). Judging by the fact that it had to follow up on a true analog synth for the liue rig, it held up remarkably. It's the phattest sample-playback synth I haue heard. The factory presets tend to sound a little digital initially, but with a little tweaking on the attack, decays, choruses, and LFOs, you can come up with some truly analog-sounding patches. The factory presets that I haue found to be susceptible to some fruitful tweaking and conuersions are the analog brass, bass, and lead samples(Jump, Eza Geeza, Mogue...). The scene 1 & 2(saued filter presets to access at the touch of a button) feature is ingenious, and conuerting the modulation wheel as a glider from one scene to the other can result in nothing short of f*!@ing awesome morphs within a patch. The looped drum sequences (Drum Trax) are yet another treat, and you can arpeggiate them and run filter sweeps through them like a hot knife through butter, creating some killer
beats. It works uery nicely for techno as well as psychedelic/Floydish rock. One thing I am a bit unsure of, because I barely use it to begin with, are the MIDI implementations; I haue heard, howeuer, that they leave much to be desired. Granted, the CS1x is not a Nord Lead, or a JP-8000, but it's a bad-ass instrument for the price. From one keyboardist on a budget to any other ones who may read this, I highly recommend it.
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