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| Subject: | After four albums in the UK -- I LOVE IT! |
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I took it to the UK in my carry-on luggage. The knobs turned out to have come off, but I plugged them back on upon arrival. THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM!
FEATURES:
First of all, it is a TEN (10) VOICE SYNTH!!!! I cannot emphasize enough how wonderful that is when creating your own patches. Why isn't this mentioned? Because the designer of the XioSynth found he could squeeze another two voices in there AFTER the publicity blurbs were printed. I "discovered" this, and now you will find it updated on Novation's web site. But wow! What a feature! The keyboard is synth-style, but has a good feel, and easily adjustable velocity curves. Also easy to save your patches, which is a good thing: you will be making a LOT of them to suit YOUR personal style of playing.
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Dead easy. Creating new patches is trivial. Plug-and-play compliance to Windows and OSX is trivial. Using the Template and Patch Librarian is trivial. In fact, this th |
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| Subject: | Great little synth-midi-controller-audio-interface |
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It's well made but I wish the knobs were different. I can't really complain though -- they are better than many other synths/controllers I own. Solid construction, should last a long time.
FEATURES:
Outrageous features... it's basically off the charts in this department. First, it's a superb little VA synth that sounds like it costs much more. Very impressive. That alone justifies the price if you're looking for another synth. It's then a great little controller... and the smallest 25-key controller I've found. And I've measured just about all of them. Then, it's also an audio interface for your computer via USB. It actually performs just fine with the ASIO drivers -- very impressive accomplishment. Synth+MIDI controller+audio interface in one. I really love the fact that you can literally record the synth's output digitally via USB... just great.
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Haven't cracked open the manual yet... but I'm sure I will as I le |