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regarding the bad reviews this synth seems to recieve, one shouldn't forget that most of these people are probably monkeys who take too many drugs and like to impress each other with their knowledge of algorithms and oscillators etc. firstly i feel that this synth is beyond criticism in terms of it's "phat" analogue sounds because it's not an analogue synth such as the korg ms2000 and the nord lead 2 so therefore it shouldn't be judged as such. a friend of mine who is familiar with synths told me to buy a nord lead 2, so i went and played one and loved it's funky harsh organ sounds but it has no realistic acoustic sounds and the arpeggiator was poor. the best bit about it was the realtime controls, a feature lacking in the korg x5d (which some geniuses such as jas mann from babylon zoo enjoy) but shared by... the cs2x. so i've got a limited budget and i really want a synth that does as much as possible on a budget but my friend who knows so much about synthesisers says that he hates the cs2x. As a guitarist who wants a synth for pads / to learn piano on with some decent acoustic voices / with some decent "phat" sounds and an arpeggiator to make stupid dance music with / with some decent sounding drum kit's / to mess around with realtime controls on / that was FUN to use ( for some reason this synth is dismissed as a toy, as if a being toy is a derogatory thing, this is a matter of opinion, personally I happen to like toys, toys are FUN ). anyway i digress, so i would go into music shops and play all the synths which were supposed to be better than the cs2x, then i'd play the cs2x and think actually i like this, even though im supposed not to. then one day i got fed up and just bought it, if only to spite everyone who dismisses it because they'ed rather repeat other peoples opinions of it than form their own, so what are my opinions of the voices ? i hear you cry ?
i actually think a lot of the voices sound quite 70's, reminicent dare i say of kraftwerk ? or tangerine dream or those sorts of people
but then another reason i wanted it was because it was a yamaha, and as such i think it has some quite 80's sound on it such as the strings that i'm assuming a lot of these peolpe dismiss because they dont sound realistic. but i like them because i think they sound like new order who were great. also if sigur ros want strings then they get a string section
i also especially like the organs, notably the wurlitzer. and i think the piano sounds nice and realistic.
an important thing to bear in mind regarding voices like the piano voice is that when it's in a mix with lots of other instruments you wouldnt be able to identify any shortcomings anyway
and i like the analogue voices, i cant imagine you'd ever need that many anyway. I like the option of just selecting them instead of having to program some algorithm just to impress some monkey, but i also like altering them with the knobs in realtimecons; the actual keyboard is a bit plasticy to play im sure it could have been better hence the 4 rating i have given it. Theres no vocoderesque ability to synthesise an analogue input, but then it's not modular Admittedly there are a lot of really stupid gimmicky voices, but i feel there enough quality ones to compensate. There must be someone better than depeche mode who uses it ? though i guess any successful band would probably be able to afford a korg triton or something expensive
do autechre really use it ? i'm not sure what higher recommendation could be bestowed on it
anyway, i like it.
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