Hi! The only advice that I would give is to definitely NOT buy anything made by novation. I have a friend who bought one and had a problem with it that cannot be fixed because the company no longer makes the parts. They do not offer support on their products. I think he spent close to 3,000 something on it and now one channel is completely distorted. I spoke to my repair tech the other day and asked him what synths are the easiest to service. He said Yamaha and Roland because the companies always can supply the needed parts. He said that the absolute worst are Novation and Korg.
--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, Peter Korsten <peter@...> wrote:
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> Op 25-9-2010 4:36, somethingkillingyou schreef:
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> > ...or maybe I'll wait for the new novation ultranova, which is compact, has a vocoder, and being also an audio interface has 2 inputs so I could connect one of my synths in it (I have no more channels free in my mixer and audio interface)... its only real limitation is mono-timbrality... but I think that with 3 osc, 'self' sync that use only one osc (like the an1x...), great mod matrix, 3 lfos and 6 env I could get pretty complex stuff anyway without layers... also, no keyboard split won't be that much of a problem anyway, in a 37 keys synth...
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> In the past, I was very interested in the Supernova, but a friend of
> mine mentioned that you can actually hear the aliasing in the algorithm.
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> Now Novation may well have fixed this in the past 10 or so years, but
> beware: specifications aren't everything when it comes to VA synths.
>
> > I think I'll wait for it, before buying an an1x (unless a super deal occurs...)
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> The AN1x is just a very capable synth for not a lot of money. It doesn't
> have dozens of polyphonic notes, but that's pretty useless anyway for a
> analogue (whether real or virtual) synthesiser. There's a certain sound
> to each synth, so to have four or five instances of that... it would
> make more sense to expand the number of voices by acquiring a different
> synth.
>
> My wish list currently contains two synths:
> ∗ Nord Wave
> ∗ Arturia Origin
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> But since both cost about as much as I earn in a month after taxes, and
> there are these things like mortgage and food for my family, they will
> likely remain on that wish list for some time to come.
>
> - Peter
>