| I see that it is quite a popular unit! People are so spell-bound by
that capabilities that they simply couldn't reply! ;^,
Well, let me ask this: Has anyone had any experience with *any* of
Sequentials products that followed the record-breaking Prophet-5? I will
list the ones I know of:
Prophet-600
Split-Eight
Multi-Trak
Six-Trak
Max
Drum-Trak
Tom
I ask this because I occasionally see these in various and sundry
music shops but seldom hear good or bad reports on them. The only word
I have had is from Union Music in Worc. MA that they discontinued the SCI line
because of the high repair rate. Anyone else have anything good to say about
them?
Dan
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| I've used the Tom drum machine quite a bit.
The sounds are OK, nothing to write to Ma about. (they're cleaner
than my RX, but that's no comparison.) It has an expansion port
for plugging in alternative sound cartridges. (@$100 a pop).
The thing glitches like mad, loosing songs and patterns in the process.
Although it has lots of features, the user interface is rather poorly
planned out and (to me) difficult to use. My RX is silicon simplicity
by comparison.
There are 2 output jacks. For a machine of this price range, (~$800)
I'd want separates.
Some of the expansion sounds are a gas! Barking dogs, crashing cars,
horns, *vocals*. Not all together usefull, but fun.
It's tunable. It also will play any of the sounds backwards!
Bass, snare, HHO, HHC, crash, ride, TT1, TT2 and rim-shot are the
onboards. Latin, electric, SFX are some of the add-ons.
Pattern length is user-definable.
Edd
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| Well, Sequential has been on its knees financially for a while,
mainly due to its bizarre insistence on pushing the 'multitrak'
architecture..."Let's rename it, this time they'll buy it."
The concept is not bad, except that usually there was only one
oscillator per voice, disguised by the fact that you can get 6 voices
churning around simultaneously. Pretty thin. The Prophet VS is
something completely different, however.
karl
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