New toys from NAMM 08
Sorry for the long hiatus. My day job is all consuming now and I get little time to search the net for new tit bits for our consumption, let alone post my witty, inciteful comments for you all to roll around laughing at ;o)
Anyway, January brings with it the NAMM show and so far, here are the toys I'm either chuffed to see or have been involved with in some fashion....
Akai MPC5000
Akai XR20
Akai MPD32
Alesis SR18
Alesis DM5 Pro with SURGE Cymbals
Other than these, there's little else to excite me this year. Roland released the Fantom G...
....proving yet again that dead horses can truly be flogged.
Anyway, January brings with it the NAMM show and so far, here are the toys I'm either chuffed to see or have been involved with in some fashion....
Akai MPC5000
Akai XR20
Akai MPD32
Alesis SR18
Alesis DM5 Pro with SURGE Cymbals
Other than these, there's little else to excite me this year. Roland released the Fantom G...
....proving yet again that dead horses can truly be flogged.
Labels: Akai, Alesis, DM5, Fantom, MPC5000, MPD32, NAMM, Roland, SR18, XR20
posted by Failed Muso at
3:14 pm
4 Comments:
Why do you describe Roland's Fantom-G as a 'dead horse'? I own both a Fantom-G6 and an Alesis Fusion 6HD. The G is a superb instrument, no doubt about it. The Fusion is great for its synthesis potential, but as a general songwriting/recording workstation the Fantom-G is probably the best product of its kind of all time.
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Unknown, at 5:14 pm
I'm not describing the Fantom G itself as a dead horse and I don't doubt for a moment that it is a fine instrument, but Roland, Yamaha and Korg are all guilty of taking their best selling devices and simply sticking them in new, shiny boxes with very few updates other than a gimmick or new lick of paint, hence the "flogging a dead horse" comment. The Fantom G was simply Roland taking an existing technology and format and repackaging it without bringing anything significantly new to the table.
Whether the Fantom G is "the best product of its kind of all time", that's pretty much a subjective view as Motif and Triton owners will all say the same.
As for the Fusion, as you say, it has the best synthesis capabilities of any of it's competitors, but is sadly let down by its awful sequencing functionality.
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Failed Muso, at 5:49 pm
I'm still learning the ropes with my Fantom-G, but I'd say this version of the Fantom series has more than just a new lick of paint. Comprehensive multi-track recording, both audio and MIDI, for one thing. The sort of thing we hoped the Fusion would offer, when reading the initial publicity, but didn't quite deliver on.
Anyway, there's an interesting thread on Sound on Sound magazine's forum at the moment, which has developed into a discussion of the Fusion. Might be worth you chipping in. See http://www.soundonsound.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=691022&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1#691022
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Unknown, at 6:04 pm
Oh, and I've given your blog a plug on the SOS forum too.
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Unknown, at 6:10 pm
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