Re: slightly ot: the quest for a groovebox

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Yesterday I went and listened to an on-line demo of the E-mu Command 
Station and I kind of thought it sounded a little too "generic dance."  
Could have been the demo though, as I don't remember thinking that about 
Jon's sequences when we gigged together.

Jon, do you have any posts of the Command Station in action?  Last 
night, while I was screwing with the Lexicon MPX G2 sync issue, I 
cranked up the Roland MC-307 to a nice level through my studio monitors 
(I usually don headphones to save my downstairs landlord/tenant 
relationship) and it sounded great to me!  The thing I like about it is 
it's got a bunch of really weird stuff that when you first listen to it 
you might say, "bad sound" but it really has it's own personality.  This 
is all totally opinion though.  What I'm saying is, if you're looking 
for *ANY* device, give it a try.  One human's music is another human's 
noise.

Mark

On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 05:31 AM, Ian Popperwell wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> I use the Electribe ER1 - I love it. Despite a few inadequacies, its 
> got me
> into drum programming again in a way that I hadn't since selling my 
> Roland
> TR606 15 years ago.