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Jerry Aiyathurai said:
> Funnily enough, all of those synths are still attractive to me but
> particularly the An1X, the Z1 and the K5000. The only thing I would
> want a JP8000 for is the feedback oscillator. Everything else about
> smacked of trying to recreate the past. By contrast all of these
> other synths, brought some digital goodies to the table.

I loved OSC 1 on the JP-8000 with all its bizarre waveforms. I wish I could
have put it in some other synth. (The Nord Modular comes close with a couple
of its oscillators and waveshapers.)

> Soapbox on: The AN1X really shines when you explore that space where
> the edge parameters are less than 64, the oscillators aren't tuned to
> the same pitch, and the filter isn't necessarily low pass. It's not
> exactly subtractive synthesis, but not exactly additive either. It's
> very AN1X. Soapbox off. :)

Yet another person who's "heard into" the AN1x. Bravo!

mike

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