Should I buy... (Page 64 of 87)

I bought the DSM200's locally here, I only have one left, very good for toms/kicks and übersnares

I believe it is the same company yes.

I also have the MPC The Clap, laying in my closet for 5 years or so

Sounds very, very grainy...Just like a Logan stringensemble sounds grainy.
Can be tuned like it sounds donwshifted etc.

It is best comparable with the clap channel of the vermona DRM1, and sounds awesome.
But I find the Vermona DRM1-MKIII faster working and even more tweakable.

Yeah it resembles the Claptrap alot.

I think the Vermona DRM1 -MK3 for 569 Euro NP orso is the best thing any drumloving technomaker should have in his crib.

Bit expensive maybe. Probably worth holding out for a CZ-1 for that kind of dough...

hmm..i had cz-1000 but it felt quite limited so i selled it out, maybe i try to find that cz-5000 somewhere

It's more useful than the 1000 tho, although sound wise and editing wise there is no differences between the 1000 and the 3000 (nor any of the CZ family). Except the 3000 has a chorus, a mod wheel and a pitchbend, and you can split the keyboard and layer sounds. However the biggest advantage of the 3000 over the 1000 (and 101) is the larger number of user patches, more voices, the dedicated storage battery and the build in psu. I don't know how the 3000 deals with patch memory dump, but if it's anything like the CZ-1 that is another huge benefit over the 1000. To be honest, because of the disadvantages the 1000 and the 101 are the ones you should least desire. The CZ-1, that's really where it's at. But again, there's hardly any differences in sound so if you didn't like the 1000 there's no reason to go for any other CZ.

200 euro isn't too bad, but it is the maximum price I think. At least here in Holland you often see most CZ's for about 150 to 200, only the CZ101 and CZ1 can fetch a bit more, probably 250 to 300.

Still, the 3000 has 32 user patches instead of 16. I once saw some instructions about how to make your own memory cartridge, but I can't find them anymore. They must float around the web somewhere. But those instructions already said that it will be hard to find a pin connector for it...

As for dumping patches, I just checked the manual for the 3000 and it seems that it doesn't have an easy sysex dump function like the CZ-1 does (nor tape dump like the 5000), so that sucks. You can still dump your patches to the computer using midi-ox (or any other librarian that can make dump requests), but I remember from my CZ101 that it was a rather tedious process requiring user confirmed 'handshakes' between the computer and the CZ. But maybe I'm just too stupid and lazy, and somebody wrote a script for it, who knows. You could wait for a CZ1 to pop up, but I must admit that I hardly ever see one up for sale. So it might not be such a bad idea to still go for the CZ3000 after you did some research and convinced yourself that using a librarian for patches isn't as tedious as I thought it was.

Yep you need the Batteries in..

Right, thanks, I was presuming that. I'll see if I could find someone to mod it for me. Do you know for how long should normal D cells hold the memory?

anyone have the roland gaia?
how is it?

Jaspers keyboard stand

expensive with freight to australia.  have any of you seen/got one?

I have a Jaspers stand also. Very good at what it does (ie, standing).