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Akai Professional XR20
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Published on 02/08/12 at 06:09
midi in and out, line 4 audio outputs (2 stereo), microphone input, headphone output, 2 pedal ports.

there are internal effects, but of course they not break bricks. there is a section "mastering" that can help, it is a treatment "compression + EQ" who can play on bandwidth and dynamics, its signal to mix with other sources. reverbs are great, but it's super hard to find good reverbs, it would have been surprising to find one in the XR20. output can help to solve this problem, however, if one wants to invest in a pedal or rack apart.

available styles: hip hop, r'n'b, crunk mainly, but also reggae, dub, reggaeton, everything that happens is basically MTV. Sounds old school type beasties, 808 are also part of. you can play on the pitch shift of sounds, but it is not necessary. sounds are calibrated, it is not there to make frills, but for which cartonnent make beats, make them faster, and with one machine.

I do not know well the sequencer part. I generally customizes the existing patterns. the latter having created summers with lots of events, I delete the events I do not like and I mute the tracks that squeaker, this personal is how I use it, but there is no one way to use it.

UTILIZATION

philosophy of the bike is broken jaws. one must understand how the machine is organized.

there are 100 factory presets and 100 user presets. Each preset contains a pattern (divided into A, B and AB fill, fill BA) and a kit. we can do what you want with the user presets. change the partition (patterns) or modify the kit (change sounds), but it changes a factory preset, if you save, it will put it on the default user preset with the same number. distrust has therefore not erase his work. you must choose a preset number of blank. it is necessary to note what we did and where it was placed. once you know it is no longer crashes. apart the phone number, user and factory presets have nothing to do. kits plants are named. once you have customized and saved, it will use the kit XX. the kit user XX can be copied and pasted into any preset and has many associated patterns as desired. we can also customize. therefore careful to rename. I said it was against the advice of gurped system. it is actually easy to get tangled brushes, but you can not do. the manual is not very clear. editing and sound effects is easy.
this is not a typical tree way windows so you are confused. but once we understood the trick, it rolls.

SOUNDS

sounds suited to my style of music when I do hip hop yes. it's a bit like buying a bank of samples with midi files associated with it. one can start from zero, do it yourself kit with the sounds we love, and save the pattern by playing fingers, done for, but you can also remix an existing song. Personally this is how I use it. it saves time, it grooves, and I choose what I like, tempo, events and sounds assigned to pads. I get something very different from the factory preset, a sound that I like. as I'm harder to play the synth to program beats, it suits me quite. I bought it because the samples of sample banks must be programmed and mixed, and the loops are all doing great, but has cut dficiles. if you want to put some reverb on the snare for example, it is complicated or impossible.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 2 years.

I had a boss and a Yamaha QY70 DR55 hands long ago.

The special feature I like most is the separate output, and the fact that we can settle the pan for each pad. when we know that it's been four separate outputs, 4 different channels, and therefore the possibility of the distortion on the kick, the reverb on the snare, a little less reverb on the hi-hat ... very handy.

I also like the fact that we can take him on a journey, a headphone and shoo it can beat a quiet vacation, the train, the plane, returning from the beach, or even the beach or just before the aperitif. or after a drink, but need to be careful not to crush his old files in this case ^ ^.

this box has rhythm is not a gimmick like andysan seems to say. if you make hip hop, it just needs a little eq to sound as it should, because I think she made too many mediums, personal. a small plug of compression has a lamp can be more evenly. In short, like any tool, it must be returned in the mix anything.