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Hi everyone.

 I am a first time, two week old, an1x owner :) 

 first time synth (I am a guitar-man) - and I've always wanted a moog 
or a juno... blahh!! this baby ROCKS BIG! Plus it is a great midi 
keyboard, the aftertouch is lovely. wow...

 sorry for stating the obvious. Just that I am very VERY pleased.

 I went ahead a leeched all your banks, tested practically every 
voice available. This was to get aquainted with the an1x, the editor, 
plus get sounds for an upcoming gig!

 I will soon refer to it as OUR list bank, because as soon as 
possible, I too will share my own coockings. I can just spend HOURS 
jaming alone.

 But I need your help. Please bear in mind I am a guitarist, first 
time ever in contact with a keyboard. I have read and read and read, 
but holidays are over, and have no time to investigate on my own!

 1 - Is it possible to morph or pre-load one sound into another? What 
I would need is to eliminate (if possible) the silent time between 
one one voice to another. like, from a crazy thumping lead to a 
sparkling space bubble fx .. but, simply holding the footswitch, 
choosing the preset and hiting Y just mutes it...

 2 - I undertand the concept of the scenes, but is it possible to 
have to entirely different sounds on each scene, like the sounds I 
tried to explain before? or are the scenes mere variations of the 
same original sound? I am asking this because I quite honestly have 
never been able to listens to a decent scene change that drastically 
modified the identity of the first. Let me explain. Sorry for not 
being quite clear, still have to get aquainted with synth-lingo ;)

 I read scene 1 can morph to scene 2, or just jump strainght one to 
another, or used both at the same time. Tried it, true, more or 
less... I have been through gzillions of sounds, and none perfectly 
morphed between scenes, there were always slight reminiscences of the 
previous sound, and comparing that to the sound on the individual 
scene higlighted (intead of both on, one at a time) - the difference 
seems to be even higher! 


 3 - When I load up a patch and start fidgeting with the knobs, 90% 
of the time I get on the screen, for example

  42: - - - - - - - 
    :   90

Something like that. and does nothing. Have to manually choose what I 
want. ok, so I got to assign it to a knob. Cool. How? I just cant 
figure it out

 But what puzzles me is that on that same patch/voice, with the same 
lcd layout but on a different knob, a not too intense but quite 
present ressonace sweep is obtained! Shouldn't it say 

 46: Ressonance
   :   46 (whatever)

 so as to show that the knob is assigned to whatever parameter?

 Shouldnt it just be silent?

 4 - ok, so I am in a middle of a song right, and there is this part 
where everyone is going to freak out sonicly. On some voices, I grab 
a knob and tweak away really cool, but sometimes, when I press VCF 
and go to, lets say, the feedback or ressonance or whatever, the 
slightest twist to the left or right instantly mutes the sound (or 
goes complete bonkers, or very high shreaks) because the knob before 
being touched was in a position where the filter blocks the sound, 
then I keep moving and the voice appears again and I now know where 
NOT to go with the knob sweep. How to I proceed live? So I can create 
AND repeat something audible and not just squizofrenic synth mumbo 
jumbo at random? A piece o paper with the setting and before playing 
ajust the knobs? on all parameters?! on all voices? isn't that just a 
hell of a lot of work? I mean, because to find out the exact position 
of each filter as to retain the original sound is almost impossible, 
because what I end up doing in just steer away from the original 
sound...

 Damn, I am reading myself and I am getting confused. I a so sorry 
for not being clearer. Anyway, sorry for the lenghty post, but I am 
quite in a jam, the gig is coming up, I am the guy dealing with 
EVERYTHING... eeek!! :)

 thanks! Any suggestions highly appreciated!