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Hi Tom !
congratulations and welcome to the club ! I bought mine second hand 2 
years ago at a bargain price* , and i'm still glad to play and search 
for new sounds . It's an understated instrument but reliable and 
powerful if you go "inside the beast" . Don't let be fooled by the 
(!\ufffdX~!) front panel and the awful routing matrix : relax , take the 
handbook(s) . Some interesting features : you can use it as well as a 
control keyboard for an expander by affecting the "right" controllers 
numbers to the knobs (of course they don't act no more on the AN1X 
itself) ; the arpeggiator - sequencer can be affected to an other MIDI 
channel ; the "free E.G." is a very powerful tool to make custom 
envelopes or LFO waveforms .... You can go: to 
http://www.deepsonic.ch/deep/htm/an1x.php to see what this guy does with 
only an AN1X and a multitrack recorder (no outboard effects , no other 
synth ...) , really impressive !
One last thing about "analog sounds" : what most of the people have 
heard are only records , not the "raw" instruments . That means a lot of 
post mastering , added effects and so on . For their live performances 
the pioneers of the analog era used a lot of vintage (of course !) 
effects such as tape echo , Leslie speakers , spring reverbs and some 
guitar pedals (phaser , wah ..) , these dinosaurs were not stereo ! And 
very unreliable ....
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J.F.
* Now the prices on the second hand market are rising a lot ...

instrujunkie a \ufffdcrit :

>Hi there, got my AN1x a few weeks ago. I originally intented my
>brother to buy one. Therefore- he had asked me "which one"- I had a
>number of demo tunes of the most different synths on my computer. I
>blindly listened to them. And most of the times I found myself
>asking"Wo, what is that" it was the AN1x. Really an ultimately cruel
>loud machine. I'm lucky not to give a damn about A/B comparisons. So
>who cares whether it sounds analogue...? It's loud, mean, aggressive.
>My congratulations to ev'rybody who bought it. I'm very curious what
>to find here.
>Tom
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