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This is a truly amazing instrument much more so than the iElectribe. If I didn’t already own an iPad, this would be an app to make me seriously consider getting one. I own the Korg legacy collection and a rather new radias but this adds something. I can get a similar enough sound from a [...]

So I caved and picked up a radias. Here are my first impressions of it compared to my Ti Polar. I wish I bought the keyboard version. This baby sounds very bright to my ears. Is this because all I’ve played in the last 2 years is the Polar? I keep reaching for the hi [...]

How utterly amazing!. Same virus Ti2 engine but they put the albino mojo on it. Wouldn’t it have been totally rad if they made the black keys a shade of grey? I’m still very happy with my Polar Ti. I don’t think I’ve stayed in love this long with any single synth. It really did [...]

Maschine 1.5 is here. I’m trying to download it now but it seems the internet connect at my hotel is throttled so I may have to wait till I get home in the morning to give it another go. The update is also accompanied by a 1 gig library update as well. I’m not sure [...]

So I’m working on YAMP (yet another midi project and it took me a while to recollect all the binary arithmetic required to parse MIDI packets. Take a midi packet with 3 bytes in hexadecimal notation such as 99 3C 64. This stream encapsulates the following instructions: Play middle C on channel 10 at velocity [...]

Finally something else worth talking about besides the iPad!!! The imminent  os 4 upgrade will offer a mod matrix feature on all Virus TIs. The feature allows you to use an arpeggiator pattern as a source in the modulation matrix. To those of you not familiar with a mod matrix, I would describe it as [...]

I love it!!! First, a bit of my background with beat machines/workstations. I’ve owned Akai mpc 1000/2000xl,  Yamaha Rm1x/RS7000/Motif Classic/ES/XS, e-mu MP7, Roland MV-8000, Korg Triton/M3. I liked the MV8000. Very easy to use, great elastic audio, greate effects but it was too big, preset management was a bit quirky as well and saving took [...]

mLan16e2 expansion on motif xs handles 16 channels out and 6 channels in at 44.1 khz korg exb-fw, only does 6 out and 2 in at 48khz. Motif wins. As a performance synth, the m3 wins. It has karma, drum pads, drum track, xy pad, chord memory. Motif has an arp. As a sequencer, Motif [...]

So I just added a Motif XS6 to the setup. I know I was supposed to be done but I couldn’t help it. Nice looking baby, great sequencer, interesting layering capabilities not so wonderful screen. I’ll tell you more about it.  I have 32 hours of flying coming up so i guess thats a perfect [...]

Before I get into it, let me say that I don’t think the presets are as bad as I initially thought they were. There are a few that I like now. Now back to scheduled programming. One cool thing I discovered as I was preparing for this post was that, the knobs always send a [...]