Alesis Andromeda A6

Hi,

I have a Yamaha Motif 6 (not the ES though) and an Andy A6. They are 
both excellent in their own right. The Yammy Motif is a great all 
rounder, with an underhyped modulation control and sound. You can 
actually create some excellent sounds and it has great filters. The 
ES brings added expansion and sampling power / efficiency. It is a 
great keyboard and I use mine alot (Protools setup)

The A6 will take a lot of time to get comfortable with. It is well 
worth the effort though. The sound this beast makes will make you 
silly smile. It was daunting for me at first - I contemplated selling 
it once or twice when it became overpowering to comprehend, but 
disciplined reading of the manual.

You will certainly be able to create / modify presets to achieve 
sounds in the vein of your listed music peers.

Good luck,

Simon.

--- In Andromeda_A6-ION@yahoogroups.com, "tommy_trance" 
<tommy_trance@y...> wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to know if this beast is right for me.  So far, this is all 
I 
> know about it:  
> 1.  It looks SICK! 
> 
> 2.  I hear samples of this thing but never songs, 
samples/clips      
> of it sound great but nothing sounds like it if I don't hear it 
> live.  Guitar center doesn't have on demo, nor does any other music 
> store around here.
> 
> I have some questions, please help:
> 1.  How is alesis support for this product?  for example:  customer 
> service, OS updates, videos?
> 
> 2.  Does it have arp patterns?  How many?  
> 
> 3.  Can you map knobs and buttons to midi?  Are notes midi-editable?
> 
> 4.  How does this sync up to Sonar 3.0?  anyone notice drifting?  
> How does it behave when sending data via midi to Sonar?
> 
> 5.  What's the learning curve to creating warm phat anaolog sounds 
> for someone who's never owned a keyboard and has keyboard/synth 
> experience only through Reason's software?
> 
> 
> 
> I'm looking at 2 keyboards,  yamaha motif es6 & andromeda.   I'm 
not 
> sure which one is for me, I like the ES but the andromeda looks 
> tight.  I like analog sound, but i'm not at the point where I can 
> distinguish between analogue and VA. 
> 
> My music influences are: The Crystal Method, Chemical Bros, Tool, 
> NIN, Marilyn, Depeche Mode (violator album), DJ Hyper.
> 
> This is going to be a serious buy for me and so i don't want to 
make 
> a wrong choice.  thanks for any advice/answers.