Thanks my Friend. I wasn't playing as much for a while there (I dislocated a pinky doing jiu jitsu, which didn't help) and was checking in to the forum even less. I've been playing a lot over the last several months (I also got a Yamaha Montage 8, which also gets a lot of attention.) Before posting again, I wanted to read through many of the posts that I missed, and I only recently got caught up.
Yes, I'm using the latest software in both units. Like other updates, it installed smoothly, and I have absolutely no complains about it. Back in December I was reading about the VCM techniques developed by Creativespiral and bought his patches. I'll probably write about this on his thread at some point, but I just love what he did! It's so clever, and it definitely gives me a lot more of the vintage feel than I ever had before. Another technique he uses a lot is hard panning, which is easy to do on the Rev2. So quite often, I have an individual patch hard panned via the stacked layers... and then I also pan again with my Rev2 module as I learned from you, which of course gives even more richness and depth. I find the results with all the panning combined with VCM more satisfying than anything I did before. I started using his templates to rework patches, and have done a lot of programming over the last several months. I have never been happier with my sounds! It is just one person's experience, but there is simply no comparison between the results that I'm getting now compared to when I was using the '08's.
As I said, I have one of the first keyboard units (serial #00029, and so I should probably get the glitchy knobs fixed. But I'm pretty used to it. When I start playing with the module, which knobs work beautifully (serial #00260), I'm reminded that I should get the keyboard knobs fixed. As you've heard me say before, I dislike the size of the Rev2 screen, which probably has a lot to do with my eyes. (I have a multi-focal lens in one eye, and so I see better than most people overall, but not at that particular distance). Any other differences I have adapted to, and I think you will too. If you're still on the fence, remember that a lot of stores give you a month to return an item. If you get the module first, it's easier to deal with shipping.
This isn't a great example, as it doesn't use any panning, and only one of the four Rev2 patches used incorporates VCM... and a lot of it is on the Montage... and it's not a style I usually play... But I did this two nights ago: