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Previously I bought an SY85 (which i still use), which has some stunning filters. Then I looked at the EX5 and Trinity and the Z1. Eventually i decided on the EX5.
Aside from the MIDI timing problems, and the slow SCSI this is a phonomenal synth. The sounds are amazing, altohugh the first thing I did when getting it into the studio was listen to the presets, save the best ones, then clear out the whole synth. Isn't that the idea with a synth. Anyone who slates the internal sounds try programming your own, or do you lack the creativity.
As for the poor timing on the sequencer, um, who actually uses any built-in sequencer, fair play to Yamaha, the display is good for sound editing, and generally getting around, but for sequencer, dont bother, and that goes for any synth, set the MIDI timing to external and use Cubase or Cakewalk. Didn't Yamaha, fix the timing problems with the new OS.
And SCSI, yeah that is crap, its way too slow, almost as bad as a floppy disk on a PC, unless Yamaha have sorted it out, anyone know?
The built in sampler is good, although the lack of pitchshift and timestretch are a pain, combine with the other methods of synthesis it works well.
Where this baby comes into its own is as a live performance synth.
As for the Triton, well i played with and wasn't impressed. Dont get me wrong its good, just didn't jump out at me. And Korg, what happened to your styling, the Z1 and Trinity looked sexy, this Triton looks like an ugly block.
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