[A6] A6 current status...

[Mike Schultz]

I take it you folks have never had a mix go corrupt on you during a  
set, ie

- not remembering the active channel (and hence who the front panel  
knobs are for) after mix (not patch) store
- having a mix channel inexplicably transpose itself a fourth during  
a tune
- mix channel filter frequency or res values inexplicably self-update  
to new values, creating joyous new timbres.

Or, say
- bandmate pulls the power during some function at sound or line  
check and causes infinite looping bootup problem
- left A6 powered up for too long before gig, requires hard reset and  
lengthy init on stage.  Don't forget to re-touch all of of your  
GLOBAL params, like MIDI CLOCK SYNC and MIX PC, or you are HOSED  
during the set.
- my personal fave, you left mod wheel up or ribbon hold and went  
into a mix where those panel controls are disabled.  Just try to get  
out of that one gracefully.
- hey, can we rehearse the sequence from the middle?  Nope.  We need  
a PLAY START to sync anything.  Sorry guitar players.

OK, yes, a few of those last can be worked around.  That is my short  
list.  But it feels like a lot of working and not much playing.

Please don't get me wrong.  I use this board hard, and fully.  I love  
it as much as I hate it.  But enough things have happened to me that  
I can never develop trust in this instrument.  Maybe I have a bad  
one.  I don't know.

Woof, sorry.  I do this every once in a while.
mike




On May 31, 2006, at 3:56 PM, Doug Pearson wrote:

> 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
>
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