MATRIXSYNTH

Alesis Andromeda A6

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Details (apparently pulled from the Hartmann site which is still up, btw):
"Neuron's synthesis engine is powered by the technology found in neural networks (for more on this, see the section "Neural Networks"). It uses models as the basis for sound generation. In conceptual terms, these models are comparable to samples, and they are derived by analyzing audio samples. This means that in principle, any auditory event can provide the raw material for creating and processing sound in Neuron. It ships with some 100 of these models on its internal hard disk. Though this is a huge store of sound design resources, you are free to analyze audio resources (samples) of your own, using our proprietary ModelMaker software, and archive them in the form of user models. These models contain the actual sound as well as the parameter sets that were captured during neural analysis. Parameter sets are subdivided in up to three levels, and they may be manipulated via the resynators' sticks. That makes Neuron the first synthesizer offering dynamic parameter assignment tailored specifically to the sound that you select for processing. "

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Roland JP-8080

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Roland SH-101

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Korg Micro X Limitted Edition White

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Sequential Circuits Drumtraks

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"Thirteen drum sounds all with programmable tuning and level control. Extensive editing with copy and paste ability. There's even a mixer section for individual sounds, six individual outputs, one mono mix output, and cassette in/out for offline memory storage. Pretty basic and easy programming, record a couple patterns and link them into a song. The DrumTraks can send Roland sync/clock to control a TB-303, TR-909, TR-808 or TR-606. It is also fully MIDI capable and syncable. This makes it very easy to use with old analogs and new MIDI synths and sequencers."

MPC 500 Review on SIGHUP

"Akai seems to have ignored the synth side of samplers with the MPC500 (and possibly this extends across the MPC line), which is a little unfortunate. At the very least for OS updates, I hope they enhance the filter with highpass and bandpass modes, and possibly some modulators (for which there are at least some alternatives with the Q-Link slider). On the Q-link slider, it seems a shame that it can only be mapped to pitch, filter cutoff and volume. Be nice to at least be able to map to start/end points of a sample, to do some glitch cut-up stuff. Which is a concern that crops up all over this thing -- the designers have trimmed out anything that might lend itself to making music differently, i.e. not in the hip hop/dance loop/phrase kind of way."

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A MIDIbox SID is born!

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"The MIDIbox SID has been designed to get sounds out of the SID which cannot be achieved with other solutions. In difference to programs that are running on the C64 like the Triad MIDIslave, AnyWare M64 or the Prophet64, MIDIbox SID features more software implemented high-resolution modulation sources (LFOs, EGs), independent sound engines for all 3 voices and a low-latency MIDI interface (no note drops...)"

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