Midi Junk
Hello Bob,
Although I'm not an accomplished keyboard player, I like my X3 just fine! It's
a great little workstation for the money (I paid 1395$). I finally have a
performance-oriented PCM sample-based all-purpose keyboard for a very
reasonable amount of money. It's *very* versatile and let's me do about
anything I want. I'm sure I'll enjoy working with a PC-based sequencer
eventually, but I'm using the on-board one now. Even a fumble-fingered hack
like me can put together decent-sounding stuff with a quantizing sequencer!
The 688 is a casette-based 8-track recorder/mixer with midi capabilities. It'll
synch, do program changes, and all that cool stuff using a channel dedicated to
midi code. Very cool. Sonic fidelity is *way* better than I ever thought
casette could do (it's double-speed and uses advanced DBX NR) and the mixer
section is nicely done. Internal mixer/recorder bussing is digitally processed
and buss configurations are stored in memory for immediate recall so you can go
from multi-track recording to stereo mixdown at the touch of a button!
Fun stuff…
-Alan