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ddn « An amazing little machine! »
Published on 08/19/11 at 08:11It is a three-octave keyboard with soft touch rather good, with two sliders, three knobs, a pitch wheel (which becomes redder with the extremes of pitch, too 
class and a notched knob is magical the nerve center of the machine. MIDI I / O, audio in and out, headphone jack. It is small and easy to carry and ideal as a master keyboard for those who like me have a small office shallow.
All but a little plastoc use eventually it moves too - unless you read on the Harmony Central forums that the knob is notched the game and must be changed every few years ...
For sound, it is those of ION whose reputation is second to none. Three oscillators, full of waveforms, two filters, modulations incredible possibilities on paper, it is a beast.
Many hundreds of presets, classified by styles (pads, lead, SFX, etc.). With the opportunity to set favorites to find them faster rate that banks are excellent and editable cf. below and "setups" that are a combination of a rhythm, a bassline and a lead or a pad assignable portions of the keyboard, this is a find.
An excellent arpeggiator and a holding function of the note ... Too bad it all is not transmitted via MIDI, the main drawback of the machine for me.
A very very very good software company, unfortunately a bit expensive ion Hypersynth the Editor here: http://www.hypersynth.com/ion-editor.html
UTILIZATION
The manual is clear and well thought out.
The configuration is quite simple finally, the keyboard shortcut system is well thought out. We use all the time notched knob is a bit annoying but I think that architecture is clear: in all, a sound editing on the bike is simple and a bit tedious.
And then you try the software publisher and everything becomes extremely simple! The interface reminds me of the Papen Albino and is simply magical, it makes everything very easy, and more integration with Cubase is perfect. Randomize and there's one that generates patches alone, is not it beautiful??
SOUNDS
So and sounds?
For VA, it sounds very very very well. And he knows everything, that's hefty, knowing that I find it particularly excels in piano sounds weird in pads and FX - this is because of its multiple possibilities of modulation, including 'everything that moves in all directions, it lives, it throbs, it is.
The effects are a bit caricatured, but still usable, it all sounds very digital still, what is interesting for certain sounds.
OVERALL OPINION
I've had about 6 months, and I had a gaggle of VA before him. My reference is the NordRack 2 against which it fits perfectly the comparison in a very different kind and very complementary.
The value for money is incredible, even if you buy the software publisher.
It's really a weapon of war from the small home studio with no room and a laptop with a MIDI interface.
Of course, if I had two times more space I would otherwise, but this is really my master keyboard / synth ideal.
class and a notched knob is magical the nerve center of the machine. MIDI I / O, audio in and out, headphone jack. It is small and easy to carry and ideal as a master keyboard for those who like me have a small office shallow. All but a little plastoc use eventually it moves too - unless you read on the Harmony Central forums that the knob is notched the game and must be changed every few years ...
For sound, it is those of ION whose reputation is second to none. Three oscillators, full of waveforms, two filters, modulations incredible possibilities on paper, it is a beast.
Many hundreds of presets, classified by styles (pads, lead, SFX, etc.). With the opportunity to set favorites to find them faster rate that banks are excellent and editable cf. below and "setups" that are a combination of a rhythm, a bassline and a lead or a pad assignable portions of the keyboard, this is a find.
An excellent arpeggiator and a holding function of the note ... Too bad it all is not transmitted via MIDI, the main drawback of the machine for me.
A very very very good software company, unfortunately a bit expensive ion Hypersynth the Editor here: http://www.hypersynth.com/ion-editor.html
UTILIZATION
The manual is clear and well thought out.
The configuration is quite simple finally, the keyboard shortcut system is well thought out. We use all the time notched knob is a bit annoying but I think that architecture is clear: in all, a sound editing on the bike is simple and a bit tedious.
And then you try the software publisher and everything becomes extremely simple! The interface reminds me of the Papen Albino and is simply magical, it makes everything very easy, and more integration with Cubase is perfect. Randomize and there's one that generates patches alone, is not it beautiful??
SOUNDS
So and sounds?
For VA, it sounds very very very well. And he knows everything, that's hefty, knowing that I find it particularly excels in piano sounds weird in pads and FX - this is because of its multiple possibilities of modulation, including 'everything that moves in all directions, it lives, it throbs, it is.
The effects are a bit caricatured, but still usable, it all sounds very digital still, what is interesting for certain sounds.
OVERALL OPINION
I've had about 6 months, and I had a gaggle of VA before him. My reference is the NordRack 2 against which it fits perfectly the comparison in a very different kind and very complementary.
The value for money is incredible, even if you buy the software publisher.
It's really a weapon of war from the small home studio with no room and a laptop with a MIDI interface.
Of course, if I had two times more space I would otherwise, but this is really my master keyboard / synth ideal.