Miss LadyLive wrote:kuniklo wrote:Read the manual first. I sold my MD.
Why did you sell? What was your main reason for doing so, i would love to know your views..
I like the MD a lot, but I didn't like it enough to justify spending $1600+ on it. The sequencer is also surprisingly limited, IMO. You can't mix straight sixteenths and triplets in the same pattern, each track in a pattern has to be the same length and run at the same speed and direction as the rest. The sampled sounds are kind of weak, and it's really easy to lose work or overwrite old work if you're not paying close attention.
I replaced it with a PX-7 Command Station, which cost me about 1/4th the price of the MD-UW. It's synthesis engine isn't nearly as flexible, but the sequencer is much better:
1. Multiple tracks at different grid resolutions including mixtures of straight & triplets and variable swing.
2. Multiple overdubbing modes, including first note record and punch in/out.
3. More extensive editing tools (merge/explode tracks, extend, copy & paste etc).
4. Event list editing as well as realtime, grid & step record.
5. Tempo & meter changes *within* any pattern.
6. Song mode with parallel notes & controller track alongside pattern events.
7. MPC-style note repeat.
8. 16 realtime controllers assignable to any parameter.
9. Xmix for live, on-the-fly swapping of individual tracks within patterns.
10. A fantastic user-programmable arpeggiator that can also run in "beats mode" to trigger percussion riffs
I can use the sequencer on the PX-7 to trigger Battery or Microtonic drums in Live. The MD can do this too but the more capable sequencer on the PX-7 makes this more fun *plus* the PX-7 has fantastic MPC-style pads for banging beats out on instead of the cheap little plastic chiclets on the MD that aren't even velocity sensitive.
The MD is a fun instrument but not worth the premium, IMO. You could practically build yourself a studio for the price of the UW.
. The Freq knob sets the lower cutoff frequency of the filter, and the Width knob sets the amount by which the upper cutoff frequency is offset from this (and only in a positive direction). Try it yourself - set the width to the lowest value and then sweep the freq value up and down. You'll hear a narrow BP filter, not a notch.