Xpantastic!

>> So you have never played with a jazz guitarist, have you? Just  
>> kidding: I have played with one, and even though he sometimes uses  
>> chords that I hardly grasp how to do, it is still so many chord  
>> notes omitted that at least 6 notes should be plenty.
>
> If you listen to the guys like Lyle mays, Joe Zawinul and Wolfgang  
> Dauner p.ex.,- it´s pretty clear 4 voices being enough if the key  
> assignment modes work correctly and the performer is a good player.

Yes, that is true. The instruments learn you to think. There is a  
different playing technique on a piano, an organ, a mellotron or a  
polysynth. I like that: it keeps your mind sharp to find solutions.

> For the old "pre Xpander" Oberheims, there was nothing than a mono  
> cassette player/recorder, the cassette interfaces in the synths and  
> the only "sequencer" available was the little 8-step sequencer in  
> the 4, 6 and 8 voice models featured by SEM modules and OBX as well  
> as OBXa were cassette interface only synths too.

The cassette interface is still there on the Matrix-12. Rather strange  
(and cute!) to see that huge polysynth, and then cassette interface.

> IMO, Xpander layered /midied to DX-7 sounds KILLER !

Great! I will give that a try.



Terje Winther
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