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tripstation
Total Posts: 78
Joined 04-04-2005 status: Experienced |
what you mean it can’t load vsti’s.
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bsmart
Total Posts: 225
Joined 01-12-2005 status: Enthusiast |
Well, you can get the ES, and have no flash RAM, nearly 700MB less of ROM samples, half the presets, half the user memories, almost half the arps, no modeled effects, no vocoder, profoundly slower sample load times, old school display, fewer real-time controls, and other stuff I can’t remember. Maybe it’s worth it to you to have one voice each of analog, FM, and physical modeling. |
chicagodannyd
Total Posts: 12
Joined 08-11-2009 status: Regular |
I own the motif xs 61, expanded with hundreds of additional patches with my thumb drive. I do not need anymore sounds. What I do feel is that an improvement would be to make the arpeggios fully editable. For example, make it possible for me to assign a specific kick or snare or cymbal for a particular drum pattern arp, instead of only having the choice of choosing another drum kit, which often does not have the particular kick or snare I need. Can the XF do that? TO get around the problem, I have created one custom drum kit, which I use extensively. But I would love to be able to easily and quickly the arps. So far, I have not heard a sufffcient reason to move up to the XF. |
amitaip
Total Posts: 3
Joined 01-11-2010 status: Newcomer |
The XF looks like a product with zero innovation put into it.
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tripstation
Total Posts: 78
Joined 04-04-2005 status: Experienced |
Hi,
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cyclops
Total Posts: 25
Joined 09-03-2010 status: Regular |
Yeah, all of this is really cool, especially being able to run modelling sounds from Motif’s CPU. But how something like this would cost? Would you be willing to pay much more money? See what happened with Korg OASYS, it used DSP-based sound generation, costed a lot of money and it finally got abandoned as a platform. Let’s face it. There is no such thing as a perfect synth/workstation. Maybe manufacturers don’t give users all they ask for, because then they would stick with one piece of machinery for more time. How could manufacturers sell the next big successor then? Same goes with every manufacturer, see Korg or Roland for instance. Go in their forums and see what kind of bitching and moaning is happening there from the users, asking more things each and every time a new instrument gets announced or released… |