The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "Dale Kay" <admin@k...> wrote:
> I just am not digging the fm out of my ION. I also don't really like the mod matrix it 
has to edit with. I hope the sysx data comes out soon along with some more midi info 
so I can make a front end to it to access some of that great programming a few of the 
other users tell me about.

I haven't spent nearly enough time withthe ION to comment onthe FM aspect but I can 
say the Mod Matrix struck me as a little cludgey - not very intuitive. I find the Ctrl 
Matrix on the AN1x is a little more direct but I admit to having read the manual twice 
over to understand how the settings made in UTILITY/SETUP for Ctrl Device and Ctrl 
No. can interact with the Ctrl Matrix settings. That said, in practice it's never given me 
an issue.

Another quick comprarison - the ION arppegiator presets don't impress me much - - 
it's not that I that they were bad, they just didn't 'wow' me. Of course I'm also pretty 
bored with the AN1x Arp presets too...need to spend more time rolling my own with 
the Step Seq. Pet Peeve: I wish the Arp/Seq on the AN1x worked with LOCAL=OFF.

> 
> I been told I was crazy when I said thin and ION together, now I see someone else 
who seems to ponder the same. Maybe I am not so crazy ? 
> 
> The ION seems best when it is feed to a filter queen or added too with effects 
(outboard). I do agree with you on the MS2k, it has a different sound and feel. Now 
the other bad boys you mention, well they are in a different class, both price and 
function wise.
> 

I like the sound of both the ION and MS2K but as I commented earlier - I don't find 
either too similar to one another or an AN1x.

Jon