Should I buy... (Page 72 of 87)

in my experience Linns can be found in great shape as they were often studio machines and were soon succeeded by other machines.
I'd wait until I found one in better condition if I were you, or deal it down.  But again this is if it was Montreal, and we seem to have a lot of gear from that era, and american made stuff is more common.

Yes, but they're still a bit rare compared to Japanese stuff, and of course we lust over european stuff instead!

@ Stalker or sneakthief again...

I was at the shop today and so far the synth is okay, but maybe it didn't sound so cool through the headphones I used there. Programming is really a bit complicated but I think it might be manageable. They wanted 350 EUR but said 330 would be possible as well.

Now what I'd really like to know: the knobs don't have "full" resolution when you turn them, you have to hold them down to have a finer resolution. Is it the same way if you use the AN1X as a MIDI controller? I don't think I would like that... of course that's not the only thing that matters to me, but I don't want to find out about that after I bought it...

I had an AN1x for about 5-6 years...I don't remember having any resolution issues using it as a MIDI controller (i.e. the knobs always send 0-127), but I do remember mine choking a bit if I tried to send more than one CC at a time.  Maybe it was just an issue with my unit, but if I turned two knobs at once both MIDI messages would be really stepped in a noticable way.

It's a great sounding VA for sure - my favorite of the early VA's - but I just couldn't get on with that interface for some reason (probably laziness).  Lots of switching knob modes with those colored buttons and then digging into that up/down matrix thing to the right of the screen to change effects or whatever....nah.  "Managable" is really good way of explaining the programming.  I had a freeware PC editor for it that made programming much easier, but at that point you might as well use a plugin instead.

Alright, bought the AN1X yesterday
So far I'm happy with it, the only thing that bothers a bit is that it sends Program Change or something to my MPC... hopefully I'll find a way to disable/workaround that...

But now I'm already thinking about getting the next gear, this time by Roland... should I buy it?

About 700-1200$ I'd say, prices may vary depending on your location.

Somebody in town selling a fostex x-28 cassette multitrack for 200 bucks. Curious to give it a try but the price is way too high imo, or is it? How problematic are those things to maintain, do they hold up well after 20 years use? Don't look too sturdy to me..

@Schmoltz, it depends on the use, I had an X15 (i think), and it worked fine and looked great even if it wasn't overbuilt.  200 is probably more than double what it's worth.

@Olivier8, here they go for about 280€.

I've been drooling for this.
Opinions.
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Machinedrum sps-1 uw mkII

Do it!

200€ is indeed cheap!