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Subject: FW: [AH] MKS-80

From: "Verschut, Ricardo" <ricardo.verschut@...>
Date: 2000-04-03

-----Original Message-----
From: OWEN DEVIVO [mailto:ODeVivo@...]
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 8:47 PM
To: 'analogue@...'
Subject: RE: [AH] MKS-80, Jupiter8, Virus: Are they apples and oranges?


MKS-80 vs. Virus..........

heh, somewhat apples and oranges, unless you'll use the Virus for ONLY a
synth (never using the fx, multiouts or inputs...)

The Virus hands down. Not too mention the wide scope of capabilities the
Virus has.
The Virus is a more modern tool as well....

yup, that's my thought,
Owen the soyboy

-----Original Message-----
From:Royce Lee [SMTP:rlee@...]
Sent:Friday, March 31, 2000 12:13 PM
To:analogue@...
Subject:[AH] MKS-80, Jupiter8, Virus: Are they apples
and oranges?


I know this may seem like a tired issue, and it was to me until
I came up
with around 800$ and started to think about which synths to buy.
Does
anybody own both an MKS-80 and a Virus? What are there relative
strengths
and weaknesses? If you only had the money for one, which would
you go
for. . .or rather, which would you go for first?

I've heard some people complain about slow envelopes on the
MKS-80 and
sloppy sequencing. If that was that, I wouldn't even consider
it further,
but I know these kinds of complaints are often related to
computer,
interface timing problems.

Any input would be appreciated.

-royce