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Hi, Pete

Now there's a name from the past. How are you doing?

You're quite right, the EX5 is buggy and a bit of a flawed diamond,
but I still prefer this machine compared to the Motif ES Rack that I
also have. Don't get me wrong, the Motif ES is a nice machine and I
use it mainly for strings and organs, but the EX5 can still kick butt
despite some of its limitations, and is a much deeper machine in terms
of programming capability. I've still yet to hear a machine come up
with layered pads as good as the EX can do! Also, whilst the EX5 does
have known problems, it's still rock solid in the way that I use it.
The only two things that frustrate me are the MIDI SYSEX bugs (which I
coded around in ex.factory) and the two parts on the keyboard
limitation in Performance mode.

I'm intrigued by Yamaha making their Motif XS stuff available for
download.

Back on topic, I've never seen any bug issues with the AN1x?

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, Peter Korsten <peter@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>