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Thanks for calling me out on that. What you're saying is similar to how I
feel about someone learning the scales or a few songs and thinking they can
"play" - it doesn't work like that. Please notice I said "that's why I like
it so much!" - as in the an1x does sound different and I do appreciate it
for what it is.

my thought and argument though is that I can't justify taking up space with
another digital synth. Does it sound good, unique, etc? Yes. But the point
remains that if it's digital, then there "should" be a way to get something
that sounds close or better out of another digital machine (i.e.: my
computer). so - i'm finding it hard to think out the reasons of why I should
keep it around. So far every digital synth I've bought I at the time thought
"Wow that has a lot of features and for a good price and sounds pretty sweet
too!" and a few months later I found myself saying "meh" and getting rid of.
The an1x has been the only one that's satisfied my gear lust. Just last year
I owned jp-8080, alesis qs 6, roland jv 1080 and I know a handful of others
I can't think of at the moment. No matter what I do, I still found myself
twiddling with stuff in the computer more than these digital synths and I
can get it to sound a lot better. The only exception is again the an1x, but
with the recent addition of a dx7ii - it seems out of place (and honestly
nearly completely useless when I run the dx7 through analog filters and
other effects and sequence it with something else).

if anyone has thoughts, I'd love to hear them. I figured I'd just kind of
"bat it around". i don't want this to turn into "analog vs digital" street
wars because we all (should) know the advantages of either. I guess my
argument is really digital in a hardware case versus digital in a computer
case :)


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