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Amazing drone/acid machine.
I love feeding this thing through a heavy delay and an amplifier, you can create all sorts of warm ambient atmospheres with it, plus when you hook it up to a distortion this thing can do some mean acid basslines. All-around a very good analog synth, I'd say it's the second-to-best Volca next to the good ol' Sample.
130
A bit tricky, but it gets the job done.
Got this sampler around mid 2017 to use as a sampler and sequencer, got some use out of it, good for taking around as a portable beatmaking machine. Kinda limited however, there's no resampling function, every sample is at 44.1k, but this made me want to experiment with it more, made me want to try the old techniques of speeding up a record to 78 rpm then slowing the sample back down on the MPC to give it some grittyness. Sequencing works well, you have a menu that allows you to form full songs out of separate sequences, along with a "timing correct" function which can be deactivated if you want. You have plenty of MIDI functions such as setting the MPC's MIDI in Channel, you can also assign each track to a different MIDI out channel if you want. Anyway, if you want to start off with a good portable sampler/sequencer that gets the creative juices flowing, then this is the sampler for you.
130
Best pad machine I've ever heard, horrible interface though.
This machine can produce some of the most beautiful pads you will ever hear come out of your speakers, headphones, or any other audio source for that matter, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to program it, and I have no idea if I ever will. The interface is mainly button-based, there is no data knob, instead you have two buttons labeled "yes" and "no" along with various buttons meant to open up editing menus and cycle through preset banks. But either way, even if you don't enjoy menu diving and you just want a good rompler that can produce some of the most amazing New-Age landscapes on the planet, the Yamaha TG500 is for you.
130
Brilliant sampler, does everything I need it to do and more.
I love this thing, I've never understood why it got so much hate. It does everything I need it to do and more, I can just sample something into it, crunch it down, and it just sounds amazing, no matter what it is. The interface is a bit dodgy but in the end you just get used to it, it's a matter of adapting to it, I'd say in the end it doesn't take any longer than it would on any other sampler. Anyway, point is this thing is a brilliant sampler for the price, you get cyclic timestretch (along with the fancy shmancy intelligent timestretch), resampling, expandable memory, 44.1k max samperate and more. Personally I'd say these things are pretty much the 950s of today.