Yamaha AN1x the best VA since the 90s

I had a lot of synths (60 different models) and i have sorted through everything and sold many, I left only 4. And Yamaha AN1x for me is central to my setup. It has a rare property for synthesizers. Even if you find a bad preset, it will not annoy you with its character. While on other synthesizers this picture will contradict the AN1x property. It is endowed with a very high quality 5 voice unison, 2 scenes, 4 oscillators (including additional hidden ones), a huge number of modulators and destination paths. It also has a 16 step sequencer that works in dual mode as both a note generator and as a modulator. 4 x Free EG this is a brilliant thing. Its filter and resonance have the function of self-oscillation with key track. Separation of voices, scenes, the ability to drum at the moment and make the sound of a lead and a pad at the same time, his competitors cannot even today. And I generally attributed such a candidate as JP8080 to the most useless purchase in my life, having AN1x in my hands at the same time.

I look at new synths that come out these days, I look at modulars for 20.000 euros and more, but having AN1x in my hands and being able to make any sounds on it, I am not provocative and do not buy what you can buy today. At the same time, AN1x still sounds amazing to me. Pads, leads, basses, braces, plucks, thongs, he can do it all. And with Free EG and self-oscillation, he can even say speech phrases.

I soldered the microcircuits on the AN1x output stage. The old Japanese chips did not satisfy me very much. On my YouTube channel there is a video for modification. Now the sound is even better and I use it 90% of the time with the other 3 best VAs and 1 workstation.

https://youtu.be/U2trp0iTkQQ

Still a good synth

Is not powerful or versatile like Serum or Spire, but it has that 'sweet' flavour that softsynths had lost. You can like or not. The on board effects are dated to me, but you can turn it off, FM is good but dont expect a DX7 clone. I love running in mono through my 737 preamp for bass, sounds beautiful! It can emulate DCO synths very well, almost like Diva. I dont know why, but the AN1x step sequencer appears to fit in mixes mutch better than vst sequencers. Comparing to a Nord Lead, the sound is dirty and raw, and for me, is a big plus. As i said, i like it, but is not a essential synth nowdays. Korg Minilog or even a Mininova sounds better in some cases.

90s Silk

The perfect poly. I've owned close to 50 synthesizers in my life, including some vintage analog warmth such as the Korg Polysix, Roland Juno-60, and AKAI AX-80. The AN1x trumps all these for me, not because it sounds "warmer" or "more analog"- it obviously doesn't. It's a 100 per cent digital machine. I like it because it makes me sound different from everybody else currently occupied by the vintage analog craze. I don't mean to say there isn't merit in vintage analog- I'm saying there are other things as well. The AN1x is as analog-sounding as you want it to be- lush, warm, unstable (if programmed to be so), but it also does glossy, crystalline digital FM sounds extraordinarily well. I had a JP-8000 for a while that sounded cool, but sounded like a bucket of hot, glitchy slop if I pushed the LFOs too hard. It didn't like doing those intense, oscillator-mangling modulations that I so crave. The AN1x, on the other hand, is perfectly happy making these types of extreme, audio-rate modulations, and sounds surprisingly musical doing them, too. Also, I like the edgy nineties look it has. Very endearing.

A GOD amongst VAs

The sound engine just seems to have the ability to keep giving, decades after it came out.

Nice PHAT AN1X !!

The best VA synth to-date! I have have enjoyed mine since I purchased it in 1999. For live situations, the AN1X is an excellent substitution for my Prophet 5 and OB-8. Though, I don't give it 5-stars due to it is little bit cumbersome to program.

Best synth I've ever owned

The An1x is probably one of the most underrated synths of the late 90s. And up to this point I haven't found a VA synth that makes it so easy to create fat analog sounds. Clean oscillators, crisp filter curves and even the effects are decent, even though sometimes limited.

I Love my AN1X

Its blue and it just sounds fantastic! I might add that is PLASTIC! But when I play the AN1X I fall in love with it again and again. You can spend hours on end playing this snyth. It has a huge " fat" sound to it. It really sounds great for a digital analog synth!

Great sounding synth!

This is one of those secret tips in my opinion. The case and the design are pretty horrible, and it is not the easiest to use, but it sounds great if you know how to get those sounds out of it!

Melhor VA que eu já toquei

Um VA com som de analógico. Adoro as teclas e o som que ele produz.

This synth has one of the closest sounds to The Virus TI 2.

An underrated synth, but it sounds one of the best. Amaazing features, bright and fat leads, cold pads, kick-ass basses...