[A6] A6 current status...

[Doug Pearson]

on May 31, 2006 12:37 PM, cgould11 at tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> ... but in my opinion no bug the A6
>has is very hard to work around.

As someone who uses the A6 extensively live, I completely agree with this statement.

>There isn't really an alternative for a MIDI real
>analog workhorse. The competing poly analogs are the
>Jomox Sunsyn, Dave Smith Polyevolver, and the Studio
>Electronics SE-8. Only one of those comes in keyboard
>form, none are more than 8 voices, and all are more
>expensive. Not that the above machines aren't 
>impressive (in fact they may be sonically superior).
>They are just less like a workstation that can handle 
>the majority of your analog duties. 

I don't own any of those, but it's my understanding that neither the SE-8 nor SunSyn are properly multi-timbral (or that if so, the feature is too buggy to easily work around)?  (Please correct me if that is not true!)  Again, as a live performer, a non-multitimbral analog poly would be of little value to me (otherwise, I'd have to go back to stacks of vintage analogs, no thanks!).  But if you're only working in the studio, that might not be an issue.

Doug