I'm all in on the MPC Live. But it makes me wonder if my purchase of the Pioneer Toraiz will seem redundant. Maybe I'll play around with the MPC, and if I like it better, sell the Toriaz. Time will tell.

I am pretty sure all could have been accomplished with the Elektron or Dave Smith's machine, but it's more than I want to spend. Just got the King Korg and am going to pair that with the Roland AIRA Sytstem 1-M module. I do like the look of Novation's Circuit and it does seem to offer most things I...

The 16 pattern chain song mode seems a little skimpy on paper. I wonder how this works out in performance, though. I'm about to offload an RX-5 but if memory is a problem, the RX-5 could be an able sequencer. The DrumBrute's sequencer will do things the RX5 and many other drum machines won't do. At...

I find the synth appealing, too, but I've just never pulled the trigger on one. The reason for the lack of a thread may simply be that -- in the U.S. at least -- Vermona is very much a boutique kind of manufacturer, whose prices tend to be on the high side on this side of the pond. I would liken Ver...

HalloweenJack wrote:New video from Nick

Yes, Sonic Lab is really milking the h**l out of the DeepMind 12 mania. This is their third video on the machine. It's getting to be a bit much, I think.

ninja6485 wrote:

griffin avid wrote:

"Analog Heat is about a 2"

So basically, it's the Electron Analog lukewarm

Not quite. What's one notch below lukewarm?

I'd like to hear from someone who owns their boxes- to see if they think this makes a worthy addition. I own the A4, AK, RYTM, OT, MD, and MnM (2, in fact), and this new box doesn't do a thing for me. If my GAS meter goes from 0 (I hate it and would never buy it) to 10 (I can't live without it), th...

As far as I was aware, orginally the Boutiques were 'limited editions' so presumably these won't be around forever, yet the TR8 seemed to be a permament part of the line up. Roland seemed committed to it only recently with the 606 kit add on, it always seemed to be more like a proper studio peice o...

So I got my hands on one of these -- I couldn't resist -- and it's spectacular. The workflow is every bit as good as I imagined. Because it uses x0x-style sequencing, you can pick it up and start making beats almost instantly. The machine itself is much bigger than I imagined it would be -- it's big...

I do think roland are going to try to cash in on making another 808,909, and 303 emulation at some point, but the question is: when? They might want to wait until the TR8 has been out there a while before introducing another attempt at the drum machines, or at least until it's discontinued. As it s...

ninja6485 wrote:

Hybrid88 wrote:Interesting, that's a whole load of new products.

It certainly is.... Anyone know when Roland is expected to unleash their load on the public?

Sweetwater, zzounds, and other U.S. online retailers now have it in stock. Juno has it in the U.K. I can't believe this isn't getting more attention on this forum! As a sampler arranger and sequencer, it's probably got one of the best workflows I've ever seen. Plus, it's standalone (no computer need...

The DSS-1 keyboard is fairly light and plastic-ey. It's not terrible, but it's nothing special. Also, the disk access is agonizingly slow, unless you have one of the rare-ish upgrades for SCSI capability. That said, it sounds pretty terrific (SSM filters plus the Korg digital delay/chorus = gloriou...

Korg DSS-1? But it weighs about 6,000 lbs.