The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

In a message dated 21/5/02 12:52:26 pm, edward.edwards@... writes:

>Darn right.  Only keyboard I've had with a worse action was an Akai AX-60
>- I
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>think it had no felt under the keys so it was always literally "banging"
>on the
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>keyboard when you played.  Sometimes Yamaha is infuriating in their designs,
>you
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>get this "What were they thinking?" feeling about certain things.  I have
>a
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>Yamaha A3000 sampler which uses SCSI 1 to communicate!  Talk about slow...
>1984
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>technology in a unit released in 1997.  What were they thinking?  But,
>the AN1x
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>is still one of the best VA synths for the money out there.
>
>
That's funny- 'cos the first 'real' sampler I had was an A3000- and one of 
the things that pissed me off the most about was the time it took to load 
from scsi.- The other thing was the noisy output expansion card.- I dumped it 
for an Emu e6400- and never really looked back. (but I did miss the 'toylike' 
aspect of the thing- especially the 'recycle/sample re-arrange' function- and 
the realtime knob upgrade- something the emu lacks).

As for the keyboard, I wonder if it is possible to swap keyboards in it?- 
yeah I loathe its keyboard!

Tom