Well I suppose you have to balance the advantage of being able to use the keyboard to specify a transposition against the disadvantage of learning not to press a key when muting a track.
Sorry to hear about your experiences with the JD-Xi and FA-06, I suppose I should consider myself fortunate in that both my 3 year old JD-Xi and 2 year old FA-06 are pretty much in as new condition.
Thanks! I got mine a year ago. It was my first hardware synth. Still works perfect but I donāt have used it often. I really hate the minikeys, and creating a sound from ground up is a pain if you donāt use a editor.
But the quality of the sound is really much better as i expected!
One of just a few synth that i use outdoors without fear of defects.
To be realistic, for this price i didnāt even expect a decent hardware quality.
I really hope that Rolandās upcoming synths will be worth buying it.
Are you suggesting I should stop playing it and use it as some sort of playback device?. Keyboards(even toy ones) are meant to be played, it is impossible to play and cue/uncue tracks at the same time, up untill recent os it wasnt, it is imo a basic performance technique that they cluelessly trampled on in exchange for a feature that should have been there all along. I know the jd is not exactly a serious piece of kit but it feels like Roland think the average user just wants to press play and not much else, the editors may add a lot but without reliable harware its pretty much a soft synth and I am sure you could buy better software for the same money.
No of course I am not suggesting that you stop live playing your JD-Xi.
I too mute/unmute tracks whilst playing but I donāt experience a major issue probably because I am performing the cues during gaps between playing the keys.
The specific issue here is that if you press a key when you have the shift key pressed, for any reason, you will get note transposition, and of course you have to use the shift key to cue tracks.
Assuming it was not technically possible not to involve the shit key, I suppose Roland could just have given us transposition solely via the shift plus octave up/down keys. Not sure how popular that would have been.
Or they could have used a more obscure button for the new transposing feature instead of one that was allready in use for the last year or two.
Anyway enough derailing, nothing anyone says will change my mind about Roland, they have lost my trust much like Behringer have for some, only a run of extra good products will lure me back in the future.
Curiously, I hadnāt seen the white model before:
I just bought the white model. 3rd time owning this. It has some big flaws, but does soooo much right. Iāve owned almost every groove box, and this one sits at the top, all flaws aside, cause itās so fun and immediate to get something going and just play. I do wish a handful of things were different and more accessible, but I love this thing for what it is.
Iām considering getting one of these soon(ish), and now that thereās the white model I think Iām sold.
Iāve been lusting after the TR-6s since it came out, but the JD-Xi has all of the x0x sounds I want the 6s for, plus synths! In your experience, is the JD-Xi a competent drum machine? I donāt need anything fancy, sequencing-wise.
Also wondering about presets and editing. Is editing sounds onboard as annoying as everyone makes it seem to be, or are they just being babies? I tend to be pretty content with tweaking presets, and Iām not really a fan of hooking my synths up to my computer for anything other than updates and recording.
The problem with the jdxi is it does a lot but its all a bit bland and played out. Really it should have been a soft synth as not only is the hardware pretty shoddy( keybed is beyond bad) but sound editing is either a pain or worse requires external software for anything more than basic control. Using midi from an Elektron makes sequencing much more flexible but then Ā£400 gets you a lot of soft synths in comparison.
Wow, this is freakin awesome! Where are these for sale?
Interesting, thanks for the share.
I donāt suppose youāve used one of these johnl?
Nope, I just heard of them from here, apparently only ā¬75
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