[A6] micron musings

[dbruzzi at noos.fr]

well, I guess madness might have many ways on man's mind, but it hasn't that old on me ( yet? ).

... no I haven't sold my soul to VA and traded an Andy for a Micron : I just needed a cheap, easily movable synth for stage use, and that would help me fullfull my substractive synthesis needs while my A6 is getting repaired :-)
eventually I think this little thing is a good complement to the Anrdomeda, so it might have been worth exchanging opinions on this complementarity.

Now, please forgive me if this Micron stuff is getting other A6 owners ... I won't be posting about it again 

Davide Bruzzi
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>De: "Demokid" <demokid at home.se>
>A: <a6 at code404.com>
>Sujet: Re: [A6] micron musings
>Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:41:58 +0200
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>Did you trade in your A6 for a Micron??? Doesn't the Micron have its own email list?
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>Kind regards
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>Demokid
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <dbruzzi at noos.fr>
>To: <a6 at code404.com>
>Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 1:54 PM
>Subject: Re: [A6] micron musings
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>Hello everybody
>Yet another A6 user that has fallen under little Micron's mighty influence :-). Sorry for joining late.
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>Now that I managed to play with it for a few nights, I must say that the "nice, smooth and clean digi" sound definition seems accurate to me, even if crancked filter resonance and compression/distortion FX helped me get some agression out of it. Clearly it cannot compete with true analogs 
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>I just wanted to underline two points :
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>- the arp/seq is a really nice add-on. I easily focus on this kind of feature because getting a cheap multitimbral VA synth with something more than a 16 step seq or programmable arp is not easy these days. Only Novations get an interesting seq/arp, but IMHO they don't reach Micron's programming fun or sonic quality. 
>If you consider also that you get 32 parts of unquantized, 32-steps-per-bar and 4-bars-max patterns that can be sent by midi, you realize this little grey synth really helps keeping the music running on stage. Usually you need a full workstation, an expensive hardware seq or computer based setup to get this. 
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>- Micron FXs sound nice to me, and being used to program A6 Mixes relying only on internal FX, I hope I'll work nice sounds out of them as I did on the Anrdomeda. Just as on the A6, my first impression is they do the job if your dry sound is already an interesting one - then add so wild flange or spacey delay or reverb.
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>There just one point that keeps me wandering : in setup mode, how do you get one part assigned only to FX A, another part only to FX B and a third part mixed between both FX ? I mean, it seems to me that each part has dedicated dry/wet balance, but is there any per-part FX1/FX2 balance, or should I hope for Micron OS 1.03 ? 
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>Basically, I'm trying to recreate A6's dual FX configuration in Mix Mode, where setting program's balance between FX's is possible. Otherwise, some day I'll give in gear acquisition lust and get an old, blue Nova desktop module - for seq/arp and multitimbra fx :)
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>Davide
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>>De: "Chad Gould" <cgould11 at tampabay.rr.com>
>>A: a6 at code404.com
>>Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:08:22 -0400
>>Sujet: Re: [A6] micron musings
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>>On 2 Sep 2005 at 9:58, Richard wrote:
>>> Secondly the OS is AMAZING - a brilliant piece of design which is soooo much 
>>> easier to use than the Andromeda  - despite mostly using only 1 knob! - the 
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>>I think that Alesis did a good job with the Micron OS considering the limited interface. 
>>However, the interface really is rather limited. I found it a pain in the behind to 
>>seriously program a sound. I guess that's what the Ion would be for. I've heard 
>>programming the Ion is pretty much a breeze.
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>>> cup of tea and do some patching... I can carry it between studios, take it 
>>> home, sit in a coffee house with it... I've never had a keyboard that wants 
>>> to be used so much... and I think using this may even improve my A6 
>>> patching...
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>>That's the main thing that I think the Micron can be good for... it's a great sketchpad 
>>synth. I even wondered if it could be jerry-rigged to work with batteries... that would 
>>make it an ultimate portable play-toy. 
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>>Now, as a synth in the studio I imagine it depends what you do... that smooth VA 
>>digilog sound is popular in Euro-techno type stuff. But I agree with you on bass... I 
>>have two analogs right now (the Andromeda and the Waldorf Pulse) and they 
>>creamed the Micron. Come to think of it, almost all VAs get creamed by most decent 
>>analogs. These days, I focus on less synths, so eventually I found no purpose for it. 
>>Hopefully you do. :) 
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