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Subject: Re: [AN1x] Re: Can't wait

From: Peter Korsten <peter@...>
Date: 2008-02-22

derek192603 schreef:

> Most of my Yamaha machines are from around the AN1x era (an era when I
> think they were making really interesting "deep" machines and not the
> ROMPLERS that they do now), and it just intrigued me that there were
> no presets on the AN1x compared to my EX5 and FS1R, which are full of
> them. Of course I'd prefer all the ROM patches on those two to have
> been over writable, but you can't have everything.

The thing that strikes me about Yamaha synths from that era is that they
were quite buggy. There is something to be said for stuff that actually
∗works∗. You have an EX5, you know what I'm talking about. Beautiful
machine, but severely flawed.

The newest Motifs have a Linux-based operating system and you can
actually download the source code of your synth.

- Peter