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I did start to flick through and yes I will read it, just needed to play
with it first.

I'm not writing it off I just paid 270 quid for it, I want to get as much
out of it as I can don't worry.

But thanks for the pointers !!! I'm gonna take a look at the edge control
tonight.


I respect what you say, you seem to have a lot of history ... synth wise.



Cheers


Scott






> Scott,
>
> The AN1x is a multi-layered beast, and while it's not fascinating
> reading,
> it does help to at least skim the manual from cover to cover.  There's a
> lot of possibility waiting inside the synth, and some of it isn't obvious
> at first glance.  When I first got my AN1x, I thought of it as a simple
> digital Minimoog clone -- I've been playing synths since the early 70's,
> and cut my teeth on the Minimoog and the Putney VCS3 -- but there
> are lots
> of more possibilities than that.  IMHO, here are some of the nuggets that
> lie in wait, once you decide to get in there and learn all the
> possibilities:
>
> Edge Control -- morphs the wave shape from a sine wave to the
> chosen wave,
> controlling the harmonic content of the result; takes a 50% pulse
> wave from
> a sine to a triangle to a "soft" square wave to a "classic" analog square
> wave, to a DCO (rather than VCO) edge.
>
> Free EG -- allows the recording of up to four real-time
> adjustments, to add
> timbre changes, fading, etc. without the need for an extra set of
> hands.  This feature is useful to make changes that sync to the beat of a
> song, and for modulating the oscillator sync into almost "talk
> box" effects.
>
> Arpeggiator -- while this has always been an interesting feature to have
> lying around, most of the synths I've used had about eight patterns.  The
> AN1x includes quite a few more, including some techno and bass line
> variations that may come in handy.
>
> Step Sequencer -- at first, this seems like a limited feature -- only
> 16-steps (32 would have been better) -- but once you realize that in
> addition to the one sequence per patch, there are another 128 sequences
> which can be linked to any patch and chosen from the keyboard, the
> possibilities open up a bit.  Also, the sequence (and arpeggiator) can be
> sent to other synths via MIDI; I use this to add percussion elements from
> my Alesis S4 to songs.
>
> Modulation -- each patch allows for up to 16 sources of modulation (per
> scene), chosen from a pretty large list of sources, to alter
> another large
> list of destinations.  In effect, the AN1x is something of a
> modular synth,
> without the hassle of patch cords!
>
> There are other features I could discuss, but my point is not to
> write the
> AN1x as a one-dimensional instrument until you try all of its
> possibilities.
>
> Regards,
>
> -BW
>
> --
> Bruce Wahler
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