@John ... I think I was a little too obtuse in my last post trying to make a joke. I meant that unlike your JV1010, which you say is now retired in the closet, since mine is virtually brand new and little used, it doesn't deserve to retire as it hasn't yet worked.

Unlike both you and Mac, I am relatively new to the hardware game, having spent my first 5 or 6 years fooling with sequencing and digital audio entirely 'in the box' with softsynths, etc. About 2 years ago I caught a hardware bug and although with not a lot of money, but certainly more money than brains, went on a Craig's list and e-bay hardware binge. My best scores were the Korg EX M1 R that I bought dead for $150.00 and had to learn how to replace the battery and use MidiOx to reset, and my Motu AV parallel time piece that I bought for $35.00 and with a lot of internet searching got working. Now all my rack synths are a mouse click away from my master keyboard. Having these great synth sounds at beck and call is certainly a 'Wizard of Oz' experience.

I am sure you both know what you are talking about, and I must conclude ... despite lack of first hand experience with it ... that the Ketron is almost unarguably the best GM sound module. And if you only had one synth as a BIAB user, probably the only choice. I do note that BIAB as its name clearly states is precisely aimed as a product at recreating 'a band.' I can see the utility of an excellent GM module with 'natural sound' for its practicality and versatility. But as my main intent is to arrange and pull the midi to another sequencer ... that is neither use BIAB live or mix down audio in BIAB ... having the Ketron seems a little less critical for my purposes. Of course then, I could get a raise and my brain could continue to shrink?

Oh, and one last little 1010 'bon mot.' Using the Cubase Midi Device Panel that pulls up an interactive graphic representation of a 16 channel midi mixer with channel vol, pan, reverb, chorus and all 37 of the 1010's effects available for realtime tweaking is pretty sweet.


Prado

Last edited by Prado; 02/02/10 10:34 AM.