[A6] micron musings

[Richard]

as doug said, no you can't have both verb and delay. However the verb is 
very interesting and can be used as a quasi delay unit; set a hall or plate 
or plate to a high value and it extends the sound of the synth in a quite 
nice and unusual way - not at all normal! I like these Alesis guys... they 
are doing more than copying everyone else, they are thinking about what they 
are doing...

as for your question about the micron's sonic character:  well, there is no 
language we can agree on to describe such things. In my review I said 
"smooth digi, clean digi, nice digi... " and I can't do much better - it s 
got that 24bit modern VA sound, similar to the the nord G2 (not the more 
biting original nord modular) , but with more analog sounding filters - and 
you may indeed call that bland, but didn't people once think that Rolands 
were bland? I think the micron could be easier to slot in some mixes than 
something like the Andromeda or micron. I don't think it has the character 
of absynth, or a yamaha fr1r, a Waldorf or a korg wavestation but I think it 
has a lot more of a pleasing tone than most VAs, romplers and softsynths, 
especially the filters which are nice, but still quite digi, tools... what 
it definitely lacks is a bit of balls, some moog modular oomf - but for 
micron's price you probably can't even buy one moog module!

BTW I just listened to Its About Time by Tonto's Expanding Headband which 
really underlined how unanalogue these VAs actually sound... I wish they's 
call them subtractive digital synths instead, It may not be literally 
correct but it would be more honest and more accurate

Richard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert van der Kamp" <robnet at wxs.nl>
To: <a6 at code404.com>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [A6] micron musings


> On Friday 02 September 2005 15:08, Richard wrote:
>> well its an interesting question because with ALL VA
>> synths you really need a ton of fx - whereas I hardly use
>> any on the A6 - it really doesn't need a lot adding :)
>
> Very true. :)
>
>>
>> I'm not in front of the micron right now and the manual
>> isn't very informative on the subject of fx so if someone
>> doesn't answer this before me I'll give you an answer
>> later
>
> Thanks for that. I *did* read the Micron manual, but indeed,
> it isn't very clear. My guess is it isn't possible, but it
> sure would be nice.
>
> Time for another question then: what about the 'character'
> of the Micron (and Ion) sound? I toyed once or twice with
> and Ion in the shop over headphones, never heard a Micron.
> The Ion's sound struck me as a little bland, characterless,
> neutral. Am I wrong here?
>
> - Robert
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