xavier_tehu_gauthier

Well made, really fat and gritty filter and really good feature when it came out. Little bit ''outdated'' with all the analog synth that come out lately, but this one really start the ''budget'' analog synth recent era. Use it for bass/lead/Fx in my live sets.

Great little monosynth (After cleaning the infamous foam/tar under the control pannel), 2 Oscillators (1 detunable), 1 Enveloppe, Low Pass Filter, LFO (2 shapes), Noise, ''Bell Tone'' (Digital Ring mod) and.. POLYPHONIC section!! This feature makes it a 5 stars synth in my opinion, can be routed to the filter (And to the pitch with a mod).

This is a incredible instrument, very versatile, can be used in many ways and situations. The feeling of playing the real thing is omnipresent when playing it, you really feel the strings! This can replace a rythm guitar anytime and with a little overdrive, it really shine!

This keyboard is a bit dated (2002) and the sounds are not really good! But the construction is amazing and as a midi controller, it is very good! Every knobs/buttons can be assigned and it's easy to change midi channel on the fly.

This is a pretty limited monosynth, the presets are not so great.. but, the sound is soulfull and ''lo-fi'', almost alive when you play it well! The keys feeling is special (With the mechanical aftertouch), not that easy to play. Using it almost in live situation, great duality with my saxophone player!

This is by far, my favorite instrument of all time. Unique and really modern tone, everlasting sustain and a lot of dynamics. When you understand the way it works and how to tweak it, you can achieve a lot of different tone, some more ''arsh'' and some more ''smooth''. Suitable for a lot of music styles and its perfect for ''padding'', because the tone cover the whole frequency spectrum. Amazing instrument!

This is a love and hate situation with this guy, I love the sounds, really close to my RS101 for the strings and the choir are beautiful. But the construction quality on this is awefull for live situation. USB Powered, 1/8 output minijacks and the unit is too lightweight, when everything is pluged in the back, it almost fall backward without the mic pluged in. These are not features well receive in a live situation.

I always loved what Sequential made in the past, and this unit is no exception. Not really ''user friendly'' (And even the manual isn't really clear), i use it as a effects processor (filter, LFO and depitch). This unit got a great resonant filter that self oscillate and can sample around 11sec with 512k RAM.

I'm not really sure about this one, it's sure well made (Plastic over aluminium on the MB1), fake wood panel on the sides, bigger fader than the MB1.. but it lack some great feature that the MB1 has, like prewire LFOs on the pitch, filter, PWM, amp.. You have to makes patch to get them to work. By my ears, the sounds seems more ''clean'' than the MB1. Cannot replace the MB1 imo, I decided to keep boths. The filter also seems less dirty than the MB1, and this is what i liked the most about the MB1. In other hand, the patchbay is a really great tool for studio use, you can make all sorts of routing and get a large sounds possibilities.

On the outside, this piano looks like shit with these cheap plastic panels, but when you take a look at the inside, this is a pretty well made piano. Release in 1984, a bit late with all the digital stuffs that came out, I think this piano was well designed, but they had to cut corner some stuffs (The exterior) to help lower the sell price and I don't think they sells a lot. This is a good compromise over the big CP70/80 Grand Electric Piano. Big downside, the bass note are almost untuneable, beiing too short and with only one string (instead of 2 for the mid/hi range), they sounds weird and not really ''piano like''. In other hand the mid and higher not can sounds really good and I obtained good results by mixing the output with a mic'ed setup.

This is my holygrail of a piano (See my review on the Rhodes Mark 1 73). But this one have the Peterson Preamp installed, with his amazing optical stereo tremolo effect. The 88 factor make it way more heavy, but the feeling of playing on a heavier piano is great, feels almost like playing on a Grand (ok maybe i push a little to far), but mine is tweaked by my standard and it sounds amazing.

Trade this piano against a very rusty Rhodes Mark II, sounded like shit when I got it, and with a little bit of tweaking, this piano now sounds amazing. This is a unique hybride of a Rhodes and a Wurlitzer (use reeds with a passive pickups system like the Rhodes). The sound is also in mid range, you get the dirtyness of the Wurly, and the round sound of a Rhodes. Really a good piano, pretty rare but cheap!