Message 16/16
Date: 08-Dec-99 @ 05:43 PM -
RE: Ensonic Dp2/DP4+
I own DP/4, StudioQUAD, MPX100, and recently got hold of a Fireworx.
StudioQuad is flexible, OK-sounding and reliable. I dont like its reverbs too much, though.
MPX100 has excellent verbs' but you're pretty much stuck with its rigid routing/edition. Great as a background or complementary FX unit.
DP/4 is fantastic, it sounds simply right. It has a soul. Drawback : the clumsy user interface. You'd have to kill me to get mine, though.
Firework is also fabulous : high-end specs : dead silent, unbelievable MIDI implementation, and incredible effects blocks that you can route absolutely as you want. That's the key to its power. It even include internal pitch tracking, 2 ADSR 2 LFO waveform generation and so on (so you can actually configure it play it as a monosynth w/ resonant lopass, MIDI-controlled !) everything fully assignable to whatever. The reverbs are OK but not the greatest ever. It has a vocoder. A lifetime is not enough to explore the FireworX possibilities.
Of course we're not at all comparing the same products (and prices !!).