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--- PinheadX <pinheadx@...> wrote:
> > > Citr\ufffden Xsara GLX 1.8 16v
> > What's that?
> It's a French car..:-)

Congratulations!!! What a Christmas! Are you going to keep it, or sell it and
buy a whole bunch of synths and create a retirement account?  :-)
 
> > > Waldorf Micro Q?
> > I've seen them for around $695. Am close to buying one!  :-)
> That's a nice price! I took a look at Zzounds, but they don't have it yet.
> Does it realy match the Q sound or is it like the Virus rack?

They are supposed to closely match the Q sound. You can even load Q sounds into
the Micro Q. A small conversion is done to weed out the non-supported
parameters.

There are some differences. No step sequencer, digital out, or cross modulation
on the Micro Q. The Micro Q is capable of more voices (25) than the regular Q
(16). Waldorf has changed the architecture a bit so that the Micro Q uses the
DSP power more intelligently. Instead of holding the same amount of power aside
for each voice it dynamically allocates the resources so that the more complex
the voice (# oscillators, # effects, etc.) the more DSP power is used.

I have been really trying to decide between the Micro Q and the Q rack, but
have finally decided on the Mico Q. In the future the Micro Q will be
upgradeable to a max of 75 voices. 

I have just ordered a Virus b also. :-)

Sayer

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