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With any gear purchase-when in doubt buy both.

Techno and dance musicians need fresh sounds and the AN1X is a sound 
designer's dream. Once you get a handle on the modulation matrix and 
all the features, you can design a huge range of impressive 
noise.It's nice to have knobs and the ribbon controller is wonderful.

That being said, you need to know that the AN1X isn't multi timbral-
you only get 2 different sounds. If you want one box for all your 
dance music needs-this isn't it.

Also, the AN1X LFOs and delays don't synch to MIDI. That's a big 
drawback for dance musicians.

The ASR and it's older brother, the Ensoniq EPS 16 are hip hop main 
stays. Good tools for laying out beats.

Buy the cool red ASR and program some beats, then get the blue Yamaha 
and actually bang on some keys and turn some knobs. Dance music 
Nirvana.

There's lots of user presets in the file section.

Rainbow Jimmy
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