I own it check out my impressions:
At first impression when I opened the box it feel quiet sturdy, hard and solid in build. White and clean compared to my 8 year old triton.
Plugged in the usb +power, installed the software and it start working immediatley.
I played with it for a few hours, the knobs feel quiet loose, the on the left hand side, the controller knobs feel harder.
The sounds I feel are quiet unusable. They are quiet dirty, and I found myself trying to tweak them to get sound I wanted.
The keys are a bit bouncy...They felt alright. Not like my triton which is semi weighted. Probably like my micron. I'm used to playing on keys like that so it was alright.
If I was at Guitar center and some guy asked me "Yo Skillz, help me dude which one should I get, soft synths and axiom pro or
a Venom.
I'd lean towards the Axiom pro.
But what would trump that is just buying a hardware synth. The Micron destroys the Venom in sound aswell. I have created multiple programs with ease plus it has 150 or so slots for your own programs. The venom has a limitation of additional programs you can save. I haven't been told else wise. Which means you have to edit what you have and write over the sounds. Thats gay. Actually....I'll read up on this and tell you guys if we can save additional sounds into board to save them in the PC environment through Vyzex.
Personally I felt sylenth has quality sounds and you'd be better off buying
a M-audio Axiom pro and downloading a few soft synths. Novation V-station, Sylenth, Sytrus etc etc...
I also got the Venom to play sounds on soft synths.
Select bank D USB to HPF and that will allow you play sounds in softsynths.
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Sylenth wins hands down on preset sounds.
Tweakability- Venom. It's got a alotta weird shit in it. Nothing like black eyed peas, LMFAO, Pitbull tracks. DOn't expect sharp saw's, sweep leads or anything pro. This shit expects you to fukin program and tweak even further. Nigga fuk that, 48 hours later i'm quiet dissapointed in the board. I'll post a gangsta beat I made wit it, but in regards to commerical sounds or straight sounds that sounds analog...naaa.
I'm afraid to say it but computer software is fuking this synth in the ass with no rubber and the ***** still won't learn and take her pills.
I love my hardware and have jumped back to my triton, micron and fusion straight away for quality presets and edited sounds. I just find myself so dissapoointed that theyre are no trance leads, no reso leads that sweep, lfo controlled bass by mods...
Fuk man. If I had a team of sound engineer's I would approve on commercial sounds, create a board with 2000 sounds, plus another 16gbs of space for samples, and programs. Make the board looks like a Mercedes and call iboard.