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2002-01-11 by heinrich22001
What do you think of it: I have the mp-7 and need some bread and butter (my mp-7 delivers lots of hits in fifths but you can hardly use that for writing your own melodies) Beat Garden seems to be more direted towards techno, right? But I am more of the R&B department. How about the brass section? Any hints welcome Heinrich
2002-01-11 by jason williams
zr rom is cool and is very good at some breadnbutter stuff... the brass is very usable and the grandpianos are awesome.. but it's a tad bit dated with the sounds. it's from the ensoniq mr/zr stuff and that's what 4yrs behind...I bought for the same reasons you are raising and found it stale and dated.. the mp7 efx help a lot but the epiano's sound like bells/dx7 patches not a one bite and rhodes grit. the wurly is well yuk!!!! the strings are passable, the basses are great(but the mp already has dope bass patches)�some of the organs work well. the drums are sad compared to what's in the mp7 already. It's a hard one to figure out with no proteus rom chip out there for sale. For the rom chip prices(or what I paid) I would be more careful and return it on my first impulse for somethingelse more useful....if that's your feeling after your purchase and playing with it. I waited and held on to to it now I'm stuck!!!
oh well.......in short for Gpianos,somestrings,pads,synths(withefx),acousticbasses,brass i'd say you'll be cool and get some use out of it for sure. for Epianos, drums save your money.
until theres a proteus romchip(never?) it will have to do!!
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2002-01-11 by kinslow32333
--- In xl7@y..., "heinrich22001" <hhuent@g...> wrote: > What do you think of it: I have the mp-7 and need some bread and > butter (my mp-7 delivers lots of hits in fifths but you can hardly > use that for writing your own melodies) Beat Garden seems to be more > direted towards techno, right? But I am more of the R&B department. > How about the brass section? > > Any hints welcome > > Heinrich I e-mailed the E-MU sales rep a few weeks ago and asked about the release of the Proteus Composer ROM. He said they will be releasing it in the "near future". He told me to check back in mid January. I'm hoping to hear about something at the next NAMM show Jan. 17th. Lewis
2002-01-14 by heinrich22001
jason, lewis, thank you for your thoughts! I bought the zr expansion board, these are my two cents, if anybody else considers buying it: Piano: AWSOME! The first realistic sound I found on a ROMpler. drums: okay, but not the same punch than whats on the mp-7 sound rom. percussion and acoustic bass: better on the mp-7 brass/woodwinds/flute and stuff: I don´t like it. You find better sounds on dancehall equipment like the Yammie PSR. Sax and trumpets are disappointing. Not Emu level. E-Pianos: I quite liked them but I am not experienced with this and cant compare. Pads and Synths: good. Overall: The ZR expansion board may be a good (but not overwhelming) bread and butter sound module, but only and really worth the price when a very realistic piano sound is needed. For expanding the mp-7 I was a little disappointed. Maybe I am expecting (to) much but for 300 bucks you can do so. Anybody who knows something about the new proteus composer board Lewis was mentioning? All the best Heinrich --- In xl7@y..., "kinslow32333" <kinslow.lewis@m...> wrote: > --- In xl7@y..., "heinrich22001" <hhuent@g...> wrote: > > What do you think of it: I have the mp-7 and need some bread and > > butter (my mp-7 delivers lots of hits in fifths but you can hardly > > use that for writing your own melodies) Beat Garden seems to be > more > > direted towards techno, right? But I am more of the R&B department. > > How about the brass section? > > > > Any hints welcome > > > > Heinrich > > I e-mailed the E-MU sales rep a few weeks ago and asked about the > release of the Proteus Composer ROM. He said they will be releasing > it in the "near future". He told me to check back in mid January. I'm > hoping to hear about something at the next NAMM show Jan. 17th. > > Lewis