Re: NEARFest - complaints - DELAY!

Wes wrote: 
If your Prophet (P5) takes 30 seconds to tune, you have other issues.
Approx. 10 seconds. My assumption is that you are not trying to be accurate
but are making a point by exaggerating the norm.


zigackly


The irony will be that when your TX81Z does take a dump, chances are no one,
including Yamaha, will have the desire or parts to fix it.

I've also got the FM7 softsynth on my laptop (six operators versus four), so mainly I keep the TX around for nostalgia. No interest in repairing it if it breaks.

Early analog,
considering 30+ years have passed, is doing fairly well in that regard.


Minimoog V, Oddity, impOscar, M-tron...hell, even an Ion.

Not that the EX8000 is the greatest thing in the world of hybrid synths,
seems like a relatively simple repair to deal with. You must not have really
thought the instrument was worth the effort.

yeah, the UI was just too kludgy. A 2-digit display and only 64 presets total IIRC. Decent sound and the DW/EX was groundbreaking in its day, but I didn't need it remotely enough to put up with having to fix it.

The main reason I got it was to have an "analog" synthesizer, but shortly after I snagged it on eBay the whole VST plugin market really ramped up, so what's the point?


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