how about midi sequencing? is it a hassle?
are you joking???
sequencing is a piece of cake man!
even with the former OS and now so much improved
-MPC looks quite pale, dude.
don´t know another machine with those
sequencing/sonic/sampling capabilities in ONE.
don´t know any other seq which manages different measures
and different patternlength per track.
it´s possible to exchange the instrumentation of tracks by
simply recording another "patch" in the header.
i.e evry section another drumkit if you like without writing PC´s.
the old OS had 6 filters or so, now add 12 new ones, some
new sounds and highly improved sequencing.
suppose yamaha finally recognized the sheer power of this
unit truly and the users snd their userboards with the
unbelievable feedback was a major factor too.
this is OS 1.2 now and rumours started that the RS´s OS will
be further updated in the future, maybe the sampling unit will
be the next step to perfection- hopefully.
i´d like to have a nice unit that will not be dated in a few years,
but a neo-
sclassic IMHO.
so does the RS tribe.
no matter what style you´re in, you have a real
sequencing/sampling monster.
if you don´t like the sounds- sample the hell out your other synth,
use softsynth, samples, resample, effect it, resample again,
timestretch, sample slice and re-sequence it!!
sequence your filter CC´s, pitch, efx, whatever you want.
at the moment i only use RS+Indigo sometimes even only RS because
there´s so much i haven´t tried yet, though i master
the basics and bit more pretty well if i may say so.
besides i learned very much from the RS folks through the boards.
the decision is up to you, but best would be to try out in a shop
where you can stay for an afternoon or so to get a little deeper into if you got the chance.
for me there´s no question, i was about to buy the MPC before i discovered
there´s another interesting sequencer with all the features that i missed on all sequencers i used before.
i´m not working for yammie btw.
