Message 3/34
Date: 10-May-00 @ 05:14 PM -
RE: Don’t buy the CS6x!!!
I agree with you, if use only the voice mode. And the synth has some damn good sounds. That's why I bought it in the first place. But try using the performance mode, that's when the problems start. Specially when you have the PLG-AN board installed. To really make good use of the board, you have to use a computer-based editor, to really get to all the necessary parameters. You can't find them all in the CS6x, so if you make a patch you have to send it to CS6x each time you work on a song, because strangely enough you can't save the sound you made in the CS6x. And that's not all. If you want to use on-board FX with the sound you made (in preformance mode) you have to save those settings as a seperate file in the CS6x. Sounds complicated?? Well believe me it is. It's so much of a hassle, that when you finally got everything setup, the days almost over.That's not so much of a problem if you have to do this once, but you have to do this every freakin' time you work on your song. I can't believe that they sell a plugin board that works like this.
And all the Mag's rave about how good it sounds. Sure it sounds good, when you hear it played from the editor, but you'll soon be de-morilised when you want to use it.