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Hi everyone.

I am a first time, two week old, an1x owner :)

first time synth (I am a guitar-man) - and I've always wanted a moog
or a juno... blahh!! this baby ROCKS BIG! Plus it is a great midi
keyboard, the aftertouch is lovely. wow...

sorry for stating the obvious. Just that I am very VERY pleased.

I went ahead a leeched all your banks, tested practically every
voice available. This was to get aquainted with the an1x, the editor,
plus get sounds for an upcoming gig!

I will soon refer to it as OUR list bank, because as soon as
possible, I too will share my own coockings. I can just spend HOURS
jaming alone.

But I need your help. Please bear in mind I am a guitarist, first
time ever in contact with a keyboard. I have read and read and read,
but holidays are over, and have no time to investigate on my own!

1 - Is it possible to morph or pre-load one sound into another? What
I would need is to eliminate (if possible) the silent time between
one one voice to another. like, from a crazy thumping lead to a
sparkling space bubble fx .. but, simply holding the footswitch,
choosing the preset and hiting Y just mutes it...

2 - I undertand the concept of the scenes, but is it possible to
have to entirely different sounds on each scene, like the sounds I
tried to explain before? or are the scenes mere variations of the
same original sound? I am asking this because I quite honestly have
never been able to listens to a decent scene change that drastically
modified the identity of the first. Let me explain. Sorry for not
being quite clear, still have to get aquainted with synth-lingo ;)

I read scene 1 can morph to scene 2, or just jump strainght one to
another, or used both at the same time. Tried it, true, more or
less... I have been through gzillions of sounds, and none perfectly
morphed between scenes, there were always slight reminiscences of the
previous sound, and comparing that to the sound on the individual
scene higlighted (intead of both on, one at a time) - the difference
seems to be even higher!


3 - When I load up a patch and start fidgeting with the knobs, 90%
of the time I get on the screen, for example

42: - - - - - - -
: 90

Something like that. and does nothing. Have to manually choose what I
want. ok, so I got to assign it to a knob. Cool. How? I just cant
figure it out

But what puzzles me is that on that same patch/voice, with the same
lcd layout but on a different knob, a not too intense but quite
present ressonace sweep is obtained! Shouldn't it say

46: Ressonance
: 46 (whatever)

so as to show that the knob is assigned to whatever parameter?

Shouldnt it just be silent?

4 - ok, so I am in a middle of a song right, and there is this part
where everyone is going to freak out sonicly. On some voices, I grab
a knob and tweak away really cool, but sometimes, when I press VCF
and go to, lets say, the feedback or ressonance or whatever, the
slightest twist to the left or right instantly mutes the sound (or
goes complete bonkers, or very high shreaks) because the knob before
being touched was in a position where the filter blocks the sound,
then I keep moving and the voice appears again and I now know where
NOT to go with the knob sweep. How to I proceed live? So I can create
AND repeat something audible and not just squizofrenic synth mumbo
jumbo at random? A piece o paper with the setting and before playing
ajust the knobs? on all parameters?! on all voices? isn't that just a
hell of a lot of work? I mean, because to find out the exact position
of each filter as to retain the original sound is almost impossible,
because what I end up doing in just steer away from the original
sound...

Damn, I am reading myself and I am getting confused. I a so sorry
for not being clearer. Anyway, sorry for the lenghty post, but I am
quite in a jam, the gig is coming up, I am the guy dealing with
EVERYTHING... eeek!! :)

thanks! Any suggestions highly appreciated!