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Seasons Greetings to AN1x-list! 

I wish you, and your families, all the very best for the brightest and happiest of holiday 
celebrations. Here's too a happy and musical New Year too. 

My thanks for your continued support and participation on AN1x-list.

Regards,

Jon

To Jon – our prompt, wise and excellent Group Administrator:  May God Bless
You now and always for your voluntary efforts supporting this list.  This
group wouldn’t be together without Jon
 with no quality Administrator we
would years ago have quickly fallen victim to crippling spam and the bogus
members it brings with their useless, interfering posts that kill discussion
groups.

 

Jon has kept the group true to its value in supporting an excellent,
somewhat complicated synth.

 

To All – may the peace of knowing that God has visited this planet warm your
heart this season.  If you question this statement or find offence – I meant
none
 I am merely speaking from the wisdom I’ve gleaned in the last 3
decades of studying the Bible and its truths which comfort and motivate.  If
being motivated offends you, please find a dark corner in a basement filled
with moths, mice and cobwebs which morph your scene from gladness into
madness.  LA Woman, you’re my woman.

 

God rest ye merry gentlefolks let nothing you dismay

Remember Christ our Savior was born upon this day

To rescue all from Satan’s power when we had gone astray

Oh tidings of comfort and joy.

 

Hope you ALL get and give good music this year.  I’m personally waiting on a
Korg Mini-Kaoss Pad.  Look it up – I think it will be a great enhancement to
my AN1x.

 

Ed²

 

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From: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Jon
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 1:20 AM
To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [AN1x] Do they know it's Christmas?

 

Seasons Greetings to AN1x-list! 

I wish you, and your families, all the very best for the brightest and
happiest of holiday 
celebrations. Here's too a happy and musical New Year too. 

My thanks for your continued support and participation on AN1x-list.

Regards,

Jon

 



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Well, the Mini-Kaoss Pad is a groovy little beasty.  It's (for the most
part) a filter touch pad with some quality flangers, phasers, ring
modulators and acceptable samplers, reverbs and delays.  Either can be on
either axis (x or y) and you move your finger from any point to any other
point.  Seems like it's a bit redundant to the ribbon controller on the
AN1x. the first preset is a low pass filter crossed with resonance - a very
common set of parameters for the ribbon on the synth.  Oh, the pad isn't
pressure sensitive (like on the AN1x), it just does left/right for one
effect and up/down for the other.  I was hoping the looper would be a bit
more adjustable, but seems to be pre-set at a couple of seconds.  You can
compensate by moving your loop point to a spot in sync with what you're
playing with your other hand.  I had the most fun using it was the
arpeggiator in the synth.  One preset will fold the loop and play it
backwards (at variable speed). that's nice.  The LFO when set to square can
do some polyrhythm funkiness, as well as go into that quick loop that begins
to enter audio frequencies.  All in all - it's a great piece of gear for the
price.  I forgot to mention that it has a tap sync button, which is great
when you want to get it "just right" with the AN's arpeggiator.  There's a
hold button that keeps that "really nice" setting after you release your
finger, an effect fade function that keep the effect from abrupt cutoffs and
2 memories where you can store your own preset creations.

 

Santa brings fun things (and in this case) small bills (sometimes).

 

Ed 



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--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "Ed Edwards" <gleobeam@...> wrote:
> [...]  I was hoping the looper would be a bit
> more adjustable, but seems to be pre-set at a couple of seconds. 
You can
> compensate by moving your loop point to a spot in sync with what you're
> playing with your other hand. [...]

Oh, but it is adjustable !
You just need to set the BPM to match the track playing, and then you
get proper timing divisions. That also applies to other effects
(delays, LFOs )

> Seasons Greetings to AN1x-list!
> 
> I wish you, and your families, all the very best for the brightest 
> and happiest of holiday
> celebrations. Here's too a happy and musical New Year too.
> 
> My thanks for your continued support and participation on AN1x-list.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jon

And a Happy New Year to you and yours Jon! Many thanks to your years of dedication to this list and the AN1x community. It is much appreciated. I hope 2009 is your best year ever.

Randy Johnson


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