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Celltrip
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Basically JX-305 is a Roland MC-505 with a keyboard. Same sounds. I used to own one but I sold it. I think MC-505 is better because it takes smaller space in the studio and the synth sounds aren't "fantastic" so the keyboard is more or less useless in my opinion... depends what you're doing of course.
However the drum sounds are excellent.. the MC-505 is a groovebox so it's aimed for making good beats in the first place, not for lush pads. If you want good strings or lush pads get XP-30. I think JX-305 was something that "fell between the chairs"... get MC-505 if you're making beats or if you have the money, get the improved MC-909.
However the drum sounds are excellent.. the MC-505 is a groovebox so it's aimed for making good beats in the first place, not for lush pads. If you want good strings or lush pads get XP-30. I think JX-305 was something that "fell between the chairs"... get MC-505 if you're making beats or if you have the money, get the improved MC-909.
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Celltrip
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Oh, and I don't think reliability was an issue with the JX-305.. I never had any technical problems with it.
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lasher
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don´t agree here...
lush pads are also possible with the MC505- almost everything is possible with this machine if you dig some synthesis. don´t tell me you can´t make pads, strings etc.
even windy´s like flute and/or sax can be very realistic sounding with some tweaking of the 4 voices per patch
soundscapes and stuff with the voice architecture of an MC505/JX305 are NO problem
but there are better "all in one solutions" out there
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lush pads are also possible with the MC505- almost everything is possible with this machine if you dig some synthesis. don´t tell me you can´t make pads, strings etc.
even windy´s like flute and/or sax can be very realistic sounding with some tweaking of the 4 voices per patch
soundscapes and stuff with the voice architecture of an MC505/JX305 are NO problem
but there are better "all in one solutions" out there
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Celltrip
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lasher said:
True, if you know about synthesis and programming sounds... you can do anything. In the end I was able to make good sounding leads and pads with it. But that required lots of tweaking. The preset patches don't do justice to the synth engine that's inside.. the presets were very dull in my opinion compared to eg. XP-30. I'm talking about the synth patches not drum waveforms, the drums are good. Assuming he's a newcomer to music making, not the easiest thing to do is to start by making 4-tone patches with JX-305 or MC-505. Just my 2 cents.
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lasher
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nah, come on dude- preset patches...
the better choice would then be "magic music maker" i guess
did you find ONE synth with usable preset patches at all?
tweak it baby, tweak it- that´s the fun about having a "synth", isn´t it?
maybe not the easiest, but still one of the easier possibilities- see i started too with MC303 and the MC505 later on.
like to say it´s not that bad option for to start.
he has to start somewhere- don´t you think...?
justo my 2 pesos,
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the better choice would then be "magic music maker" i guess
did you find ONE synth with usable preset patches at all?
tweak it baby, tweak it- that´s the fun about having a "synth", isn´t it?
maybe not the easiest, but still one of the easier possibilities- see i started too with MC303 and the MC505 later on.
like to say it´s not that bad option for to start.
he has to start somewhere- don´t you think...?
justo my 2 pesos,
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Celltrip
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Ahaa.. humour. That's nice. Still as a former JX-305 owner I don't recommend him to get one. If it's absolutely necessery then get MC-505 or if there's money, definitely MC-909 (which is what I now have and I'm happy with).
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allforone1
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i seen diary a coule days ago and he had an enosiniq asr10 it looked mad ill wat does it do though
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lasher
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me neither
it´s called ensoniq, not enosiniq.
it´s a very popular sampler, digital subtraktive synthesis/sampling; 31 voices, up to 8 osc per sound, 2 serial filters, 1 lfo, 3 envelopes.
it was the successor of the EPS 16+ wich was traded as a secret sonic weapon worldwide cos it had mighty DSP functions back then (1990)
ASR10 was made from ´92-94, then ASR-X ´97, finally ASR-X pro in ´98.
The ASR-10 stands for the Advanced Sampling Recorder - a completely digital music production studio. It's a 16-bit sampler that came in both keyboard and rack-mount versions. It shipped with 2 MB of sample memory which could be expanded to 16 MB for a few minutes of stereo cd-quality sampling time. It lets you choose from sample rates of 30 to 44.1 kHz and has all the professional sample editing functions you would expect to find from a pro sampler including autolooping, volume smoothing, normalize, crossfading, and time comp/exp. Even resampling through its effects, EQ, etc. is possible!
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