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Re: the smallest portable hardware keyboard synth



oh,i didnt know it had pianos,strings and organs got to check this one
out again most of theo sounds i came across i nyoutube where all those
techno sounds again !
Luis

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Ruelle Benoit <benoitruelle@yahoo.fr> 
wrote:
> I have the microX, the microkorg and the micro sampler.
> The micro x is the one to be choosen for real sounds, beeing a triton in 
>a
> small form but a b*** to program without the editor. 2 octave keyborad 
>only.
>
> The mikrokorg has already been discussed on this topic: nice "analog" 
>sound,
> some guy managed to do a kind of piano sound but don't expect a trumpet 
>or
> real drums from this thing. No one said however that all controls answer 
>to
> midi cc, so a small controller can replace the missing knobs.
>
> The last one: the microsampler might interest you and bring us back on a
> looper topic.
> It's compact, you can sample/mangle your sound, use it as a crude 
>multitrack
> recorder, use it for glitch/experimental stuff, has a little pattern
> sequencer, you can resample several sample in one, use a single sample
> chromatically, with or without time strectching (repeater anyone?), allow
> easy multisampling, sync several loops ... Perhaps it would suite you. 
>It's
> fun, it's probably the one in which you can the most easily put your
> signature sound (it's a sampler). The Con is that it takes some time to 
>load
> a new bank (up to 30 sec for a full loaded bank).
>
> Ben
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Johannes Korn
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 8:24 AM
> Subject: Re: the smallest portable hardware keyboard synth
>
>
> 2011/5/19 Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@gmail.com>
>>
>> btw, I have a MicroKorg. I'm generally happy with it.
>>
>> [...]
>> Cons:
>> --In order to change some settings, you need to dial the settings up
>> on a matrix (which is hard to read in most band settings). This
>> assigns the controls of the 4 knobs.
>
> That' s better in the R3, there you have four knobs you can use to 
>control
> what you like and save that setting together with the sound patch.
>
>>
>> --About 1/2 of the presets are for stereotypical "techno" sounds or
>> auto-arpeggiator sounds which I would never use.
>
>
> Same in the R3, I overwrote all these presets with my own sounds.
>
>
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>



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