The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "Dale Kay" <admin@k...> wrote:
> My band member who bough the XL-7 said he has plans for the other ROMS and is 
now in search/purchase mode as he can to get them.
> 

Have your band member check out:

http://www.emu.com/products/category.asp?category=635&maincategory=632


also eBay too...

> 10 poly is hard to beat, this is very true. I have learned to deal with 4 on the MS2k. 
Last year I choose to buy the Alesis ION to supplement the MS2k. I also purchased a 
Chameleon as well. One of these days the funds and a AN1x will cross my path. I 
given the thought of buying a ANX card for my S-80 but after many posts here and 
other sites, I think the best thing to do is get a AN1x. Till then, I can't compare the 
two. I do know there is a difference between the MS2k and the ION. I can make them 
both sound very similar but the trick is to make them both play off each other. Right 
now I am laying down tracks using them both. These tracks then head to my band 
member for him to add or take away. Then the cycle repeats a bit. As I am told, he is 
spending many sleepless night right now with his new synth. Last word I heard, he 
really likes it.
> 

The short and quick of it: MS2000 = prettier sound, AN1x = warmer/grittier (granted 
this is an over simplification but you get the idea.) Your ION covers much more sonic 
territory than an AN1x but the AN1x can at least offer a Prophet 5 knock off the ION 
doesn't (at least until Alesis updates the filters agin, maybe?) You can always pop for 
a Pro-53 softsynth instead.

And I think you're right regarding the PLG150-AN card - there has been a 
disproportionate number of posts on AN1x-list from befuddle user's with PLG cards. 
Great idea on Yamaha's part but they appear to have missed the boat in terms of ease 
of use. Kind of surprising given the effort that went into simplify the UI of the AN1x, 
A3000, EX5.7, etc. that were all released in the same time frame...

> I think you made a great deal. $50 for the An1x, that says volumes there. I am not 
sure which way I would have taken that. Then $400 for the MS2k. I think perhaps 
demand is driving that. I even thought about buying another MS2k myself to synch 
them up (they can play even and odd notes to increase the poly, that is in the 
programming of them). Like I mention, I went the ION way( I have a long ways yet to 
go with it as well as I am no MS2k master yet either).
> 

True of any synth - I can find my way around the AN1x backwards and forwards after 
having owned it so long but I still feel there's plenty yet to be exploited (FreeEG 
anyone?) Gotta admit to some AN1x fatigue though - lots of other synths sound have 
become more appealing to me in the last year or so.

> Thanks for the from the heart response. Only makes me want a AN1x that much 
more. 

Why don't you buy Bruce's AN1x?

>I have a spot for it. It can take the place of the PSR-520 on the top rack. I seldom 
use it much anymore for midi input or my wife. She takes the S-80 now for almost all 
her work. The PSR-520 doesn't even get used for her gigs anymore. She has me lug 
the S-80. Ahh... I am dreaming right now.... ;-)


hahaha ha LOL

regards,

Jon

p.s. - Dale, can you email me offline:off the top of your head, is there a reinitialize 
sequence for the ION . The floor model at the local GC was FUBAR when I checked it 
out today...