mike_byrd's Reviews

BRILLIANT WELL THOUGHT OUT DRUM MACHINE

This feature packed drum machine has all the TR series drum machines installed and has a easy learning curve to operate this behemoth. There are plenty of youtube tutorials available for more advanced use and windows 10 and above users have the option to use the free software editor for total control. With the ability to load samples this machine covers all the bases. Well worth the money, highly recommend 👌

Looks and sounds great

The Novation Bass Station II AFX Station comes with 128 new synth patches and seven new overlay banks from various artists, including Noyze Lab, Perplex On, Richard Devine, r beny, and Lightbath.

POCKET ROCKET, powerful wavetable synth

This synth delivers on all fronts the wavetables are great and allows you to program everything, it's a deep synth creamy 😋 you'll never run out of patchs its programming possibilities are endless, every studio should have one.

Sound great nice virtual analogue

This sounds like a original 303, with extra patchs included with effects, a great all-rounder also your not just limited to the 303 sound. The TB3 offers a lot of synth for the money I'd say it'll fit well into any studio.

Sounds great

Sounds great a bit CPU hungry though. A few changes on the onscreen layout compared to the Mikro MK2, great build quality.

Better filter and glide control, than the original MS-1

THIS MS-1 MK2 is better than the first MS-1, better filter, improved glide function and much more ,so well worth the coin, a great improvement from the original MS-1 with a lot of extra touches. What is great about this 101 clone is that it's so quick and easy to edit and find the sweet spot of a patch.

Easy to setup and use Excellent sounding.

This Audio interface works well with older windows systems iam using mine in windows 7, 64bit. This AKAI Soundcard delivers 24 bit sound and is a joy to use very low Latency to say the least. Highly recommend.

Very powerful with a creamy Filter

Got my Kyra Thee other week, its 8 part multitimbral function is powerful and each track has a dedicated effects and Arp section, this synth can easily match the Access Virus ti polar and has loads that's over 3000 factory sounds installed that all can be sculpted to one's own taste and over 4000 waveforms, awesome. Its has great sturdy metal build quality with metal Knobs 👌 champion this is a powerful module and delivers on all fronts, Highly recommend.

Great Analog Powerhouse

This surpasses the Roland 303 as it comes with a software Editor making programming the Behringer TD-3 a breeze and yet it holds true to its Analog roots and costs a fraction off the price of a 303 but delivers the same 303 sound we've grown to love. You won't get better for the price.

Rock solid transport in DAW no latency

I bought this Audio interface because my old soundcard started giving off White noise, the MOTU MK3 is real quiet and when used with my DAW, gives Latency free rock solid transport its a pleasure to use iam so glad I upgraded to this interface. The phantom power for the mic's gives off feedback when iam in echo mode when in my DAW. Mind you I think this is a DAW issue more than a interface issue my DAW responds differently to different manufacture interfaces I've noticed in the past, so I can't be sure if the same issue iam getting occurs in other DAW's. The sound quality an ease off use of THE MOTU MK3 is unsurpassed, its compact and punchy very well throughout and easy to use, the CUEMIX Onboard DSP software is great for monitoring your mix or altering your input output mix. For the price the MOTU MK3 is a worthy Contender, so much packed into one box and as its, firewire and usb compatible you won't be disappointed.

Awesome

Been using this DAW with dual display monitors , for the past 5 years in windows 7, it's a breeze to use and the ability to have unlimited midi channels and audio channels is a a welcome must . I haven't had to look elsewhere for a better DAW, it does the lot, a real keeper this one.

Nice voice Transformer

Easy to operate and to get a result, the voice transformations this unit offers are basic but acceptable and can add some flavour to a mix . It does exactly what it says on the tin .

Awesome, Sounds Authentic and simple to program

This Acid machine really delivers and sounds exactly as the Roland Tb 303 , but the Aira TB3 has more patchs under the hood and an effects engine as well all welcome plus's . The ability to see exactly what your inputting when programming the TB3 is priceless and allows you the ease off being able to create any pattern your heart desires saving frustration. The TB3 is a 303 plus more and is a steal when it comes to value for money, for what it has on offer theres nothing to fault.

Brilliant very user friendly and sounds lush

Love this synth the colour display is really clear and intuitive, this synth sounds lush and is easy to program . The ability to have a different effect on any off its 16 midi channels is a plus and the ability to use the chord and arp on each midi channel is superb. My only dislike is the inability to fine tune patchs in DAW control mode. But if you dont mind not using the DAW transport controls on the FA 06 , the synth architecture is completely open and ready to be manipulated in the multi mode option on this synth. Great synth offering many possibilities.

Awesome

This synth is a powerhouse I was looking for a dedecated Analog synth for Bass patchs and this synth came to mind it was a choice between the Korg minilogue and the Deepmind 6 the Deepmind 6 won by far this synth delivers on the bass front royally. the added multi effects engine is the iceing on the cake, iam never lost for ideas for being able to create new or established Bass patchs and they are fat as well and what's great is that it's a poly synth as well, well worth the coin, loving it.

Great synth for programming nice all rounder

If you like programming synths youll love this one the juno g offers the user the opportunity to program with 6 encoder knobs for quick adjustments like resonance an cutoff etc or you can get under the hood and mess with all.the parameters that are detailed and comprehensive. It has loads of bread and butter patchs and some great unusual ones these all can be manipulated and saved it also offers 128 note polyphony and is 16 part multitimbral with a dedicated arp chord memory and onboard multi effects processor . The juno g also accepts one of any SRX Expansion boards on offer from roland as well as sample ram expansion making this a truly versitile synth offering many sonic possibilities, this therefore making it a great synth for the money it grows with your pocket lol. The Juno G is a brill bit of kit.

The best synth on the market for the sub £500 category

This is the best sub £500 synth on the market its analogue section delivers a DCO 24db filter the same as the JUNO 106 but is only one note polyphonic. Never mind the analogue dosnt dissapoint, this synth also offers 2 digital synth sections and a drum section. These all sound great the supernatural digital patchs are well thought out and very useable. All patchs analogue and digital can be comprehensively edited and the JD-XI works great as a synth module which is great news for DAW users. For the price you wont find a better synth in this price bracket or category.

Brilliant Virtual Analog synth

This virtual analog synth is a dream to use you can sculpt a patch in no time thanks to the wealth of knobs and sliders. This is a 2 oscillator 2 LFO synth, its filter sounds great and its 49 keys velocity sensitive.Theres also a librarian and editor for windows xp users its a pity this facility isnt available for windows 7 users. Overall this is a great sounding 10 voice polyphonic synth that delivers the basses with sub frequencies you get from its older brother the SH 101. The SH 201 is a brilliant easy to program synth.

A punchy affordable wave table monster in a box

The engine inside the heavy duty, full metal chassis of the Blofeld delivers the same fat and rich sound that so many Waldorf users worldwide love when they play their Pulse, Q, Q+, Micro Q, Microwave, Microwave II/XT, or even the flagship Wave.

This black finished blofeld is the same as the white one but sounds better due to its electron absorbing rateing therefore the black paintwork.The explanation is simple: as more absorbed electrons reach the inner digital and analog workings of Blofeld and cause each bit to be stronger pronounced, resulting in a very defined and detailled sound. This makes the new Black Blofeld sound even better than before.Yes, you've heard it right. The Blofeld is not only capable of producing these warm, organic analog sounds known from the Q synthesizer line, it also sports a wavetable engine like its predecessors with Wave in their names. Its 25 note polyphonic has a dual effects engine over a 1000 preset editable patchs and 16 part multitimbral and has 64 wavetables and arpeggiated patchs can be saved. This module is easy to program and sounds fat hard to believe its a analog emulation for the price its a steal.

Good little mixer

Does the job for the price it does exatly what it says on the tin.