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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

Welcome

I bought my AN1X because I needed a velocity sensitive controller for 
my Vintage Keys (I was using a Korg DW 6000)and Sam Ash had a massive 
clearance sale.

I play in a bar band and a garage band. I am primarily a harmonica 
player. The garage band plays a lot of fuzzed out blues and funk 
originals. The AN1x fits in nicely. I can make cool new weird sounds, 
but they still sound analog.With a lot of help from the list and Bruce 
Wahler I can now switch back and forth from the AN1X to the Vintage 
Keys through the magic of MIDI.

With some time, the morph feature, and the ribbon controller, you can 
create a wall of sound that is just wonderfully sick.

Rainbow Jimmy

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 ....
@+
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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