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From: knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Sequential MT synth query
Message-ID: <603@ihwpt.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 11:43:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  6 11:43:08 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Dec-85 05:21:05 EST
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Has anyone out there checked out a Sequential Circuits
Multi-Track (MT) synth?  What I hear seems too good to be true:
8 voices, poly-timbral under MIDI (who knows what from the
keyboard), and touch sensitive (after touch also??),
AND at a price $200 cheaper than the Korg DW-8000,
or same as an AX80.

Is this for real?  What's the catch?  Does it skimp on
oscillators (like only one per voice), or filter quality,
or maybe the EG isn't very flexible.
	Or is the whole thing stamped out of old beer cans
and melted-down Barbie dolls and the keyboard contacts will
flake out after 6 months?  I mean, Sequential isn't exactly a
newcomer or a sleaze outfit ...
	One keyboardist did tell me he didn't like Sequential's
sound -- not fat enuf in the bass (sounds like a digital
complaint to me).
	I'm just about sold on an AX80, Korg DW8000 or
Roland JX8P, but none of these is even split, let alone
poly-T under MIDI, which is what I was originally looking
for till I discovered velocity-sensitive boards.

Please email or post any responses -- thanks, mike k

PS: Yeah, I should go see for myself.  Unforch, the nearest
MT dealer is a ways off and I'm limited on travel time.
Besides, don't you like an excuse to expound your views?

PPS: I'm not sure our netnews is getting out to the world.
PPPS: I was prepared to spend the extra $$ for the Jx8P till
I discovered it had only 6 voices (but WHAT voices...yummy)!