[A6] Buying an A6...

[Chris Pickett]

Tim J wrote:
> HI Guys,
> 
> They told me of no problems in the past (so none that I know of) and I'm not 
> sure they would tell me if if there were and previous problems.  I guess I 
> will have to check the serial number on the unit (I actually looked but 
> didn't find one...where is it?)

On mine, I think it's on a thin barcode sticker on the back.

> Is there a way to listen to each voice individually (not just holding down 
> 16 keys...)?

I think you can disable all voices except for one in the global menu. 
You might be able to figure something out with monophonic patches in mix 
mode as well.

> I hit the auto tune button and the tuning report showed each voice come up 
> with a 'T'.  Is there another test besides listening to each voice.

You can look at the calibration data for each voice in the same global 
menu.  I think this is detailed in the manual, which you should download 
from Alesis.

> Also, was it me or does the moog filter seem a bit weird.  It amost seemed 
> like it didn't close enough.  I turned off all modulation (I think), turned 
> down the other filters and prefilter, and turned down the levels of the 
> oscillators so they didn't distort and turning the Fc of the moog filter 
> fully counterclockwise still leaves you with a sound that seems way too 
> bright on all the patches.  Hell, on most of my other synths closing a LPF 
> filter usually results in a sin or nearly nothing at all.

Read about the different filter modes in the manual and check that 
you've really set it all up right.  I've not heard of broken filter 
problems on this list before.

Cheers,
Chris