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Yamaha AN1X


Post Posted Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:48 pm
jeremy


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Anyone has one of those?

I can have one for 200 euros... I couldn't imagine find one at 200 euros when I was willing to buy it 2 or 3 years ago.

I know it's a great synth, I've seen it used mainly in YES (my main musical influences are prog rock bands) in the late 90's / early 2000's. Their previous keyboard player (Igor Khoroshev) even had two of them on stage .


The electronic rhythm on this video is made on the AN1X (ok the song isn't YES' best song lol)
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Post Posted Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:16 am
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I don't have it but I can tell you this is a bargain !!
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Post Posted Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:42 am
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I had one many years ago, go for it!! :D It´s a nice machine!! :P
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Post Posted Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:42 am
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That's a pretty good synth indeed, especially for the price. €200 is a good price indeed!
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Post Posted Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:37 pm
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Definetly Buy it,I had one sold it recently,would most certainly buy another again,Has some nice sounds and although perhaps a bit limited to its Interface like a Conventional VA,its very programmable....Capable of some phat sounds,only 2 part Multi and limited polyphony(10 voices I think)

Make sure you download the AN1x Edit for PC too,great for better and deeper editing and also librarian to dump and store your own sounds,makes editing your own customs arpeggios a hell of a lot easier.

Its the Only VA that I could coax a convincing VCS oxygene 2 machine gun sound,great Motion sequencer too,far better than the JP8000 motion control

Its perhaps one of the VA synths that wasn't crammed full of trance type sounds,yet most people overlooked it because of that,as it has more traditional type FM pianos and Basses and String pads with a smattering of all other types in the preset standard Yamaha Bank



HERE You can see the Typical trance type of sounds it can do,perhaps rivals the Virus,good programming on this guys behalf,not everyone's cup of tea,but its certainly a Wolf in sheeps clothing,even if you don't do that sort of genre,its more than capable of all mannner of bleep and blips and everything else if you know how to program it..
Post Posted Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:11 pm
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That video shows how my programming skills are lacking. I haven't been able to get such sounds on a non-supersaw synth :?
Post Posted Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:59 pm
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Pretty impressive... I didn't expect that synth to be able to program that kind of sounds...
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Post Posted Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:49 pm
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Buy! That's my advice. This is my favorite VA because this is the only one that actually sounds pretty analog.
It looks like shit though --- but I guess that's subjective. :lol:
Post Posted Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:07 pm
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How much does An1x and CS2x have differences?
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Post Posted Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:11 pm
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AFAIK, the AN1x is a VA, the CS1x, not ;)
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Post Posted Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:09 pm
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That's correct.
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Post Posted Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:40 am
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I hate trance (well maybe not that much) :lol: But I know I'll have to program it myself. No problem with that.

I think the main use I'd have with it is the step sequencer and 4-track free envelope generator. Seems to be very interesting to add some rhythm patterns underneath some of my tracks.

I would probably use it live whenever I start a new band and I may even sell the Juno 106 if I feel I can replace it by the AN1X.

By the way I think it doesn't look too bad :wink:
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Post Posted Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:43 am
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Let us know here if you sell the Juno, I know two guyz interested in having one !
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Post Posted Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:45 pm
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Don't know yet about the Juno...

I finally decided not to buy the AN1X. I really hesitate, even now after telling the seller I wasn't buying. It's a real dilemma.

I like the synth, I have 200 euros ready for it. I could be able to sell it for more than I can buy it. And if it's good enough I could just keep it and sell the Juno instead (for much more than 200 euros).

But on the other hand, I already have too many synths and could use 200 euros to buy something else. And at the moment I'm not using anything else than the Fantom X as I'm recording things more in the vein of 70's music with mellotron, pianos, sampled acoustic drums, etc. plus real guitars and vocals.

:?
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Post Posted Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:22 pm
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sell 106 buy an1x for sure :)







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