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Mykel
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posted December 28, 2003 10:12 PM

I know it's surely been furiously agreed upon and discussed in the past, but I just felt like sharing my opinion that the EX5 is definately the fattest sounding digital keyboard I have EVER heard in my life. I have been on the same soundset for the past 3 weeks because I'm not sure what disk I have it saved on of the 15 or so that I already have filled with sounds, but I haven't gotten tired of it at all in that time. In spite of all of it's shortcomings, I am incredibly pleased with the mindblowing fatness this baby is able to achieve. WOOT!

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Derek Cook
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posted December 29, 2003 03:36 AM

And we all know "that fat bottomed thingamajigs make the rocking world go round"!

My experience of auditioning keyboards is limited due the paucity of music stores where I live (the Wild West in Wales), but after three years of owning my EX (was a present to myself Christmas 1999), I still feel I have only scratched the surface of the machine.

We have a wealth of wonderful patches, but if I could just single one out to show people how fat a digital keyboard can be, it would be God'yn's "Jump" patch.

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J. Westwood
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posted December 29, 2003 09:36 AM

Agreed as well.

The basses are what blows me away if the EX's. But many of the 'synths' have amazing punch as well. For all the nit-picky faults of the EX, it's definately the sound that keeps us all loyal to it.

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Mykel
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posted December 29, 2003 09:42 PM

It's not just the basses! I love all the leads, the basses, the strings and pads, but ESPECIALLY the sound effects! When I start laying on the Mod1 and 2 pedals, I am absolutely AMAZED by the crazy glitches, squelches, and just random fatness I can get out of the sound effects...

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Mykel
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posted December 29, 2003 09:47 PM

pedals = wheels

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Greg
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posted December 29, 2003 11:13 PM

You guys remember the first time you ever played a synth? Now, just imagine how you would have felt if your first was an EX

That's me.....

What an awsome feeling.

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piper
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posted December 30, 2003 05:51 PM

I've had mine 3 years, totally love it and feel I'm just scratching the surface of it's capabilities. They are truly fantastic machines.

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Mykel
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posted December 31, 2003 11:41 PM

Wow Greg, you must have pretty high standards now since it was your first! Hehe, the CS6x was my first synth and that bugger almost always got me by, but the EX5 is the best upgrade I've ever made!

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fluxburn
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posted January 10, 2004 02:44 AM

great machine... but I wish I could throw another synthesis engine in it... like the one in ab synth, that thing owns. Not like the ex5 doesn't rock to. I like each machine or software for its own sound. Each machine or software has its potential and flavor. I have a ms2000 and it has a very different feel then the ex5 for example. I have a dx200 and an200 and they both sound very different from the ex5. But the an200 engine sounds similar to the an engine of the ex5... go figure.

[ May 10, 2004: Message edited by: fluxburn ]

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yamex5
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posted January 10, 2004 07:47 AM

Hi Fluxburn,
There was a thread entitled 'EX10' that explored the wish lists for a new EX, and there are real old threads discussing upgrades early on in this site. However, I suspect we're not going to see very many 'multisynthesis' engines, at least on HW synths. Most users just want cool voices, and cramming multiple synthesis technologies is quite a complex endeavor. Getting an EX and FS1R will get you the most synth engines for your money.

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God' yn
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posted February 29, 2004 09:15 AM

Thanks Da'Cook for your support !
I added some other fat beasts to the GM Deluxe set I worked on.

I love the way the Ex bites ! With some programming you can revive the analoge spirit very good. Better than most 'virtual' synths. In my believes an analoge imitation should feel analoge. It should sound out-of-tune. That's why we all love those eighties wonders isn't it? And that's where the virtual analogs get to short !

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Arty Huxtable
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posted March 17, 2004 11:20 AM