The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

richardon a \ufffdcrit :
> Hi Jeff
>
> I am playing since 1980 in an Prog Rock Band. And of course the whole band like this kind of music and bands. I like also black music, Soul, Funk like Earth wind and fire, mothers finest, chic ... opera or rock opera like nightwish ... modern interessting tecno productions ...
> I earn my money with italian spanisch a little bit french, english and even german dance music (german  ...ei ei ei :-)
> I wonder why germans reached such a low level.
I like some german groups like Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and others ... 
but OK, they were famous in the 70s - 80s . A guy on this forum played a 
bit like them on his AN1x, Eppie Hulshof (i suppose he's german too). 
You can go on Youtube and search for a russian guy named Nick Klimenko, 
he's good too in this style, again with an AN1x, but he's not a member 
of our group, as far as i know....
>   Especially the lyrics of german "Unterhaltungsmusik"
> But there are exceptions. "No way back from Wolfsheim" e.g. ist a good song with great lyrics.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icUC32-0WuY
> Very mathematical like "Lola rennt" but sensitiv too. ( I like mathematics.)
>
> Can't be better written as you did :
>    
>> There is two kinds of music : good and bad, whatever the style...
>>      
> Thanks !
>    
>> I was told that Yamaha tried to build a V.A. Prophet
>>      
> Could be interessting. Prophet V is really another great polyphonic machine. Perhaps one of the best like Oberheim Matrix 12.
Both are very sought after by collectors and expensive... And not very 
reliable, a friend of mine had a Prophet and a lot of issues with it.
>
> (Of course just my personal opinion).
> GX1, CS60/80 sounds strange, crazy, vocal, because of Ring Modulation and Sub Oszillators a little bit like a Trautonium.
> Prophet V is made for live performance, no experimental music. Sounds extreme analog, fat, expensive, noble. classic.
> A little bit the direction i tried to tune the crazy :-) AN1x.
>
> But you could be right :
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_Circuits_Prophet-5
> Oh no ! Now i have to test this Arturia Prophet V  too :-)  But my acoustic fealing says: AN1x ist closer to CS60/80.
> The Preset CS80 Horn sounds really like a CS Horn.
>    

Of course... both were made by the same company.

>    
>>   it is less "user friendly" than a lot of VAs.
>>      
> Yes, thats really true. And the user manual is terrible. AN1X is an example for totally discoordination between engineers and
> marketing, even programmers.
They wanted to keep the price low, so they had to stack a lot of 
functions in a case borrowed from the previous entry level CS1x. Which 
was not really a V.A. synth but a "rompler" with some real time controls.
This one is very "staightforward" to program (i own one) :

http://www.vintagesynth.com/misc/elevata.php

It sounds completely different from the AN1x, raw and edgy, sometimes 
agressive like ...soviet synths.  Mixed together it can be interesting.
>   Presets showing 10% of  the potential of this machine.
>    
As on most electronic instruments...
Cheers.
J.F.