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Keyboard Magazine thought that Yamaha had a lot more features for the 
buck over the Roland. Sound is another issue, very subjective. For 
me, the cost, the # of keys, the control matrix, and the aftertouch 
make the Yamaha a more useful synth.The Roland has more knobs, but 
how many knobs do you need? The free EG is also very useful. I agree 
that the fattest sound is not always the best. With the Pulse width 
mod, the various filters etc, you can get a nice thin cutting sound 
from the Yamaha. Metallic glassy sounds also are easy to program. I 
bought my Yamaha for $500.00 brand new. I have never, in 20 years, 
ever seen a synth that comes anywhere near this kind of power for 
that kind of money.

I don't like a lot of the presets. To me they sound very 70s 
progressive rock, while I'm looking for 70s funk and 90's effect 
sounds. I think the presets turned a lot of potential buyers off. Bad 
news for Yamaha. Good news for me.

Rainbow Jimmy
http://www.spaceanimals.com
http://www.mp3.com/spaceanimals

At 07:14 PM 8/16/01 -0000, you wrote:
>I don't like a lot of the presets. To me they sound very 70s 
>progressive rock, while I'm looking for 70s funk and 90's effect 
>sounds. 

i'd love to hear some of the sounds you've dialed in--could you upload some
when you get a chance?

cheers, 

chris
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Agreed wholeheartedly! :)

By the way, are you aware that the AN1x was released with different sets of
patches for different markets. You may have received the "70s
Progressive Rock Signature Collection"! ;-) Check the files section at the
AN1x page at yahoogroups and you may find the other set. Not sure if they're
on there though.

Phil 

From: alciere@...
Reply-To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 19:14:22 -0000
To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [AN1x-list] roland or yamaha


Keyboard Magazine thought that Yamaha had a lot more features for the
buck over the Roland. Sound is another issue, very subjective. For
me, the cost, the # of keys, the control matrix, and the aftertouch
make the Yamaha a more useful synth.The Roland has more knobs, but
how many knobs do you need? The free EG is also very useful. I agree
that the fattest sound is not always the best. With the Pulse width
mod, the various filters etc, you can get a nice thin cutting sound
from the Yamaha. Metallic glassy sounds also are easy to program. I
bought my Yamaha for $500.00 brand new. I have never, in 20 years,
ever seen a synth that comes anywhere near this kind of power for
that kind of money.

I don't like a lot of the presets. To me they sound very 70s
progressive rock, while I'm looking for 70s funk and 90's effect
sounds. I think the presets turned a lot of potential buyers off. Bad
news for Yamaha. Good news for me.

Rainbow Jimmy
http://www.spaceanimals.com
http://www.mp3.com/spaceanimals

Is this set on the files pages?

Just thought I would ask.

Thanks,

Linda

Phil wrote:

> Agreed wholeheartedly! :)
>
> By the way, are you aware that the AN1x was released with different sets of
> patches for different markets. You may have received the "70s
> Progressive Rock Signature Collection"! ;-) Check the files section at the
> AN1x page at yahoogroups and you may find the other set. Not sure if they're
> on there though.
>
> Phil

Hi Linda,

The Yamaha UK Voice sets are available in the Files section. I *think* 
the set you're after is named 'Vintage' - maybe 'Illusion'.

There's been some duplication of files - where users have reposted the 
Yamaha voice sets not knowing they were already there. No big deal but 
I haven't made time to clean-up recently.

Check this directory:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AN1x-list/files/AN1x%20Voices/
Yamaha%20U.K.%20Voices/

Jon

--- In AN1x-list@y..., Linda Dachtyl <lindaleed@e...> wrote:

> Is this set on the files pages?
> 
> Just thought I would ask.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Linda
> 
> Phil wrote:
> 
> > Agreed wholeheartedly! :)
> >
> > By the way, are you aware that the AN1x was released with different sets of
> > patches for different markets. You may have received the "70s
> > Progressive Rock Signature Collection"! ;-) Check the files section at the
> > AN1x page at yahoogroups and you may find the other set. Not sure if they're
> > on there though.
> >
> > Phil