Alesis Andromeda A6

hello everyone. well, it seems by reading some of your posts that the 
ion hasn't been released. I mean, I went to two major muisic stores 
guitar center and sam ash, and neither of them had one on display , 
and only one of a few salesman knew what i was taking about when i 
mentioned the ION, but I've seen it ready for sale on MANy websites
(actually i havent clicked on the link which actually buys the 
board,so those would tell me- item not available-. 
Anyhow, I have a Roland JP-8000, and I love this board, mainly 
becasue my favorite band The Disco Biscuits uses one, and when 
deciding which board to buy, I said screw it, I know just about 
everything this board is about, nothing will suprise me that much, 
but I really want it, so I bought one. Now, I;m ready to move on. the 
JP is like 6 years old! I mean I would love to keep it and get a more 
modern synth, but i can't afford that really. I'm really praying 
that the distorion on the ION will kick butt, becasue I really grown 
to liek distortion leads like the ones on the Novation K station and 
MS2000(gates Of hell!! patch..).
I can always add PC efefcts, but I know onboard is probobly better 
than my cool edit pro effects. the vocoder will be fun , and I can;t 
wait to plug my guitar into the IOn.( if i get one)
I will finally make my decision when i get to play a display one at 
a store, but do you think JP-8000 for ION is a good idea? 
Does anyone have audio demos from ION besides sonic states. 
? from the sonic state demo, I heard nothing I was anticipating. it 
sounded like patches cut off by the filter and throbbing LFOs, no 
leads or pads or just one-key-touch cool patches.
YEa, so I;m just waiting 'till i can test one , and I'll probobly buy 
it! NO SYNTH i have ever playes has a better interface than the 
Roland JP-8000 though becasue- you can easily tweak bith the filter;s 
res and cut at same time( i liek this), and the modulation lever is 
genus because, well, for instance, by using the left side of the JP, 
I can play a changing melody , morph in or out of LFOs WHILE easily 
changing the depth and speed of LFO, bend pitch and I can also use 
the assignable ribbon. the left side of the JP should be copied by 
ALL synths.....

here's an audio sample of the Alesis ION that you may not have heard 
yet..since I lost the web page i got it from, I'll just upload it to 
my iuma.com page 

here--> http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/galiwaves/

if not works, try galiwaves.iuma.com or www.galiwaves.iuma.com

enjoy.
hoping for some feedback//
SPACEbird8

PS-- if you download the mp3, it will sound MUCH better that the 
crappy stream version..