User samples i the future... where did i hear that before ...
Listened to the demos... sounds very P12'ish with the synth sounds... The price though... I'm not sure... yet...
It doesn't sound like the P12 at all I have to say.
Well... I do not agree on that one... I'm talking about the synth oscillators, not the sampling ones
it's hard to describe, but the many demos on Soundcloud that seemed to not focus on the sampling engine sounded P12'ish to me... besides, the interface with the OLED display is exactly the same as on the P12, and we've seen DSI reuse their code on more than one instrument, so it would be the easiest way to just take two P12 voices and throw them in with some bells and whistles like Dave always do... The filters are different yes, but I do not hear anything characterful in any of the demo's on Soundcloud that impress me I'm afraid--- this could be due to the programing of course, and many of them just sound like ROMpler samples with the characeristic speedup and down when playing different keys, which I find funny since the featurelist say it can do time stretching (I now wonder if the time stretching is an off-line processing of samples, or actual realtime timestretching... i certainly hope the later)... actually I found many of those demos harsh soundingly digital... the same way that the digital Girth/Air etc. part of the P12 impart on the sound of it's digital oscillators. an unmistakingly harsh digital grungyness...
I thought hard about if I was to say it... but I just have not heard something yet that makes me go "wow!" ... it sounds to me like a sample player playing through analog Curtis filters even if it's not... not that this is bad, I'm still considering this instrument since I don't mind the Curtis sound, especially on a synth that I would be doing PAD sounds and ambient stuff with... i do not need booming MOOG filters or the like... If it's done right, I'll consider it... but I'd like to see the full spec list (user manual) before taking a decision... also, if I am to get such complicated a synth I'd want a WORKING and FULL FEATURED editor to come with it... we're living in the 21st century, and I have no intention of working this thing from those small screens when programming sounds, so I hope that DSI will at some point start taking editors more serious.
A full fledged editor, with the added ability of editing the sample setup as well would be a minimum requirement... especially at this pricepoint.
Please don't see this as a bashing... it's not... this is a really cool and deep synth with a lot of potential (as far as I know the specs until now)... I'm just not the person who fall into instant hyping just because a well reknowned synth guru push out a new synth... I listen, i read and then I judge on that without thinking about who made it. I like the ideer of this synth, actually I've been begging for this synth from DSI in the past, and they heard the call (thanks for that DSI!)... I think the only thing I do not like is the pricepoint
... I hope this thing will get a module as well because that will be my aim... otherwise I would have to get rid of my KB37 and get a modular case instead for my Eurorack stuff, and use the X as masterkeyboard... tempting because of the 5oct keybed, but time will tell.... I do need ONE polysynth, and I could easily see the X as that... so no bashing from me... just honesty about what i hear.