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LéoMoldo
Published on 11/05/11 at 08:52
Good characteristics are known: 150 drums sounds (8 per pattern), 50 monophonic synth sounds (2 per pattern), effects section (one at a time but only applicable to several drums or synths at the same time) + delay global.
Sequencer to the old, not velocity or pitch bend but with automation parameters (filters, pitch, glide, effects etc ...).
By playing against the synths with a midi keyboard (use as expander) it recognizes the pitch and velocity.
UTILIZATION
Very friendly and intuitive to use, especially with a lil midi keyboard to record melodic lines on the fly.
I never use the mode "song" I program my patterns and I recorded in the computer.
The only things a little boring are:
- Mixing volume between the sounds because you have to select each time the sound in question to change its volume, but anyway I record usually sounds one after the other and I mix in to the computer. For the live is a bit sucks.
- Having to stop playing for some actions (save a pattern, change the "swing", etc ...) but it is not very serious, overall it's still a very cool machine to be used for jam: one can still do almost everything online.
SOUNDS
Must not have any illusions here above: the sounds are quite dated nineties and a little "cheap", there is good and not so good but I find much usable and even sounds, it's COOL.
The drums are especially snares and kicks, a lot of synth sounds nice for bass heavy and spacey sounds. The editing of synth sounds is very limited but the filter is not bad.
The effects sound very lo-fi, you have to like, it can be if a particular exploitable want to sound a little like chiptune / 8bit (with Bitcrusher and reverb which made a very "digital dirty").
What I deal with is in a vein electro / groove / trip hop.
OVERALL OPINION
I bought a OCCAZ in very good condition (AF thank you!) Because I was fed up of 100% computer to compose, I wanted a cheap machine and limited to concentrate on the essentials and get ideas quickly . Also if I paid an analog synth or expander rack one day, I can use the sequencer to create the EM1 with electro loops.
It is synchronized to noon, then quite usable in a live set hardware with other machines.
So very good machine for the live or studio, even if limited in terms of sound.
Sequencer to the old, not velocity or pitch bend but with automation parameters (filters, pitch, glide, effects etc ...).
By playing against the synths with a midi keyboard (use as expander) it recognizes the pitch and velocity.
UTILIZATION
Very friendly and intuitive to use, especially with a lil midi keyboard to record melodic lines on the fly.
I never use the mode "song" I program my patterns and I recorded in the computer.
The only things a little boring are:
- Mixing volume between the sounds because you have to select each time the sound in question to change its volume, but anyway I record usually sounds one after the other and I mix in to the computer. For the live is a bit sucks.
- Having to stop playing for some actions (save a pattern, change the "swing", etc ...) but it is not very serious, overall it's still a very cool machine to be used for jam: one can still do almost everything online.
SOUNDS
Must not have any illusions here above: the sounds are quite dated nineties and a little "cheap", there is good and not so good but I find much usable and even sounds, it's COOL.
The drums are especially snares and kicks, a lot of synth sounds nice for bass heavy and spacey sounds. The editing of synth sounds is very limited but the filter is not bad.
The effects sound very lo-fi, you have to like, it can be if a particular exploitable want to sound a little like chiptune / 8bit (with Bitcrusher and reverb which made a very "digital dirty").
What I deal with is in a vein electro / groove / trip hop.
OVERALL OPINION
I bought a OCCAZ in very good condition (AF thank you!) Because I was fed up of 100% computer to compose, I wanted a cheap machine and limited to concentrate on the essentials and get ideas quickly . Also if I paid an analog synth or expander rack one day, I can use the sequencer to create the EM1 with electro loops.
It is synchronized to noon, then quite usable in a live set hardware with other machines.
So very good machine for the live or studio, even if limited in terms of sound.