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I do not agree with you on your thoughts on the ION at all. I find it rather versatile. I use it with my MS2k just fine. 

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: tyler newman 
  To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 3:57 AM
  Subject: [AN1x] ion, etc.


  hey-

  > the ion is pretty cool, isn't it?   i had one for about a week, but
  > had to return it because of self-edit and dead knob issues.

  the ion is really best for psychedelic rock or 60's type music. for
  industrial or techno, it's really not too cool. i'm actually really bummed
  that i bought into the marketing hype on that one. all the relevant mags
  gave it excellent reviews, and while it can do lots of cool stuff (mod
  matrix in particular is cool), it is limited in the number of "user
  programs", which is WAY lame, and the effects are so limited, it's actually
  kind of insulting. if i thought alesis was going to actually keep it around
  and continue to develop it for a while, it would be worth hanging on to. but
  it seems like they brought it to market solely so that they would have
  something to show at NAMM, and meanwhile the product itself is not really
  all that great.

  so if anyone has a friend who is looking for excellent recreations of 1960's
  type sounds (mellotron, moogs, arp, wurlitzer, etc), then please have them
  email me. i'm letting this thing go for _way_ less than i paid for it, since
  it is essentially irrelevant to the kind of music that i make.

  btw, just to stay on topic, i have an AN200 that i think is amazing, i just
  wish they would come out with an editor that is OSX capable, since i'm
  buying the new G5 when it comes out next month. i guess i will have to keep
  one of the G4's around for a while just so i can use the editor software.
  while i have SoundDiver, it's really not that great, and it's definitely
  less intuitive than the AN200 software, so i don't really use it that much.

  yep. time for bed.

  - tyler / informatik
  -www.nymphomatik.com

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