[A6] Does anone have both an A6 and an Ion?

[cgould11 at tampabay.rr.com]

> > So, are there unique sound capabilities of 
> > the Ion versus the A6?
> I've tried the Ion a couple of times at my music 
> shop. What it tries to do is emulating the Andro. 
> It does a nice job for a VA, unless you have the 
> real thing. ;)

I think it only really does an *okay* job for a VA
of *analog emulation*. 

As its own synth, it stands up better. It's 
actually quite a nice sound, which is what counts. 
Only the Virus I've found better, sound wise, 
personally, of the VAs. (I don't like Nords.) 

I'm personally glad I didn't get the Ion version.
The Ion/Micron sound isn't nice enough for me *not*
to want to really spend a lot of time programming
it. But that's me.

The Micron size makes it a good "sketch pad"
synth however, and it's got a few fun features
like the seq and the vocoder. It's probably closer
to the "modern" techno sound if that's what you 
are looking for, too -- the A6 screams retro and 
1980s sometimes. (But I like that, dammit.)

I use the A6 so much more though. 

But everyone's ears and needs are different. 

For those interested, the following is a test song
I put together to try out the capabilities of FL 
Studio 5. It uses both A6 and Micron sounds, plus
some Revalver geetar. I think it's pretty easy 
to tell which is which, but if you can't tell, the
A6 is the bassline plus the polysaw pad; the Micron
is the vocoder, end lead, and LFO pad. All are of 
course processed to hell with plugins (because I
wanted to test some of those too :) ). And yeah, 
there are mistakes and the mastering sucks, but I
didn't exactly spend a lot of time on this. :) 
Style is I guess "dance-punk", for lack of a 
better buzzword.

http://www.kcgould.net/test.mp3