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Sorry I’m not 100% sure what you mean.

Thanks believe it or not. It’s not a very expensive camera. It’s this guy right here from Cannon. amzn.to/3BKnchA right now it’s on sale at Amazon for only 300 bucks. It’s great for logging. It’s got the features of a higher end camera, but it doesn’t have the lens. It doesn’t do a lot of big zooms. It’s more meant to be taken at a short distance. Though I have recorded some stuff with it that you probably shouldn’t for example, when my nephew went to the racetrack, I recorded with one of those on NSD card. They’re pretty handy. They’re small than a phone. The battery does pretty good, however, when I use it to record for RUclips. I haven’t hooked up by USB in streaming format. It will do 4K but I recorded 19 20 x 10 80. It just doesn’t make sense to record much higher resolution… The juice just isn’t worth the squeeze if you know what I’m saying but yeah it’s on sale right now at Amazon for 300 bucks. I have three of them. It was still half the price of the camera that I wanted to buy having three of them lol and I think the qualities is as good as the higher end cannon that I was going to purchase.

Hey there great question! Yes it does the included plugins plenty of these kinds of sounds and will most likely be all that you need. You will also have the ability to, or course, use sampled instrument - but something worth noting is that the virtual synths that are part of the AKAI package are editable and can be tweaked to your hearts content, allowing you to make them even more suited to your needs. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help you out - if you want a patch editing tutorial on a specific synth or something let me know. I’m happy to help you out

Hey there - yes you will need some kind of mixer. One that I used in the video was the FiFine mixer - very good device and really inexpensive. amzn.to/4gl36cQ 4 channels $24

Yeah, I have several higher and keyboards and I would put it against any of them. And the price for that unit at the time was not too bad compared to other devices. I can’t remember exactly but I believe the CS6R was about 100 bucks more than the keyboard And I think it was 899 for the keyboard… Which I thought was interesting because they charge more for the rack at the time I thought than the keyboard itself because people wanted that profile they didn’t want all the keys you know. And I totally get that feeling now that I would like to get more rec devices less keyboards because Those keyboards tend to take over the room… It would be nice to have some of them not be such space hogs. Or smaller keyboards would be nice like 37 keys. But heck yeah I’ve actually tried to get a second one of the CS 6X in rack format, the problem is there aren’t that many of them around for sale. A lot of people are hanging onto them and if they are selling them they want way too much money for them, or the condition is poor… Which I don’t understand with a rack module with a keyboard I get it cause you know they usually carried around, but I feel like a rack. Module is almost like a set it and forget it type scenario you know what I mean… Also one major issue/I don’t wanna say flaw but kind of is the use of the smart media cards on the CS 6X line. Those cards are harder to find, and pretty pricey at this point, I was able to get the voice editor software working on Windows 11… That was a challenge Lol but yes love love love that sent. And it’s funny the more I play with it right now, the more I start to think to myself why do I buy all this other stuff lol

Oh man, that’s exciting! Ha ha ha I hope it is. Let me know if you get one and how you like it. I’d love to hear what you think of it. I think that thing is awesome. It sounds so good. It’s earned a place on my desk. I wish it could be permanent but doing RUclips unfortunately is for me anyway a constant game of Remixing my set up lol

@@Cap10NRGMusic For sure. Makes sense. I had to rip apart my studio and get the old spaghetti mess of wires out of there, including all the gear. I've slowly been rebuilding the room in sections and this time bought a label maker to label EVERY cord so I know what's what. Also learning everything doesn't have to be hooked up at the same time, but it's hard to choose what goes and what stays. The troubles of being a gearhead. LOL

I can 100% fully appreciate that problem lol. I have been seriously thinking of taking like a month off of RUclips to tear my whole studio apart get everything out of it clean everything bring it all back and rewire everything… But by the time I got back, no one would care enough to see my channel so and RUclips would’ve knocked me down to the completely unimportant level so unfortunately, I guess that’s on the back burner for now. It was bad enough when I got Covid missed two weeks of videos I came back and RUclips had knocked me down, saying that I was basically light on new users essentially new subscribers… I was worried that they were gonna take away something at that point, but they didn’t take anything away they just didn’t send anyone my way either for about a month and a half of additional work to get it back up. I ended up doing a video every Few days for about a month and a half and recovered.

@@Cap10NRGMusic Yeah, that's rough. I could never be a FT RUclipsr for several reasons -- one of them being that if something happened where I couldn't produce for a while, the algorithm would punish me and I would lose out. I already had a brick and mortar business for about 4 years and kept my old job in the meantime for backup and I'm glad I did, cuz covid killed the business and I had to close. One good thing about covid (good thing?? lol) is that it got me into synths, drum machines and grooveboxes. Something I've really enjoyed for the past 4 years and got me out of the funk of losing my business.

Hey, on the plus I guess what the spice just showed up at Sweetwater it’s in stock if anyone’s looking for it! And mine‘s on the way should be here after Christmas… But my JT mini just showed up from Europe insane. I can’t believe it beat the Christmas rush! So I’ll probably be doing something with that tonight. And yeah, I actually started this during the pandemic on my 50th birthday basically is when I pretty much started and decided I was gonna do this. It’s not really a moneymaker for me honestly I think I’ve earned a few hundred dollars but… Believe me that money has not Been Profit per se. That money and more goes into making this channel actually interesting for people so. I need a lot more subscribers before I can actually get any kind of real money and a lot more interested in my channel but I guess we’ll see what happens. At least it’s a hobby and it’s fun and I feel like I help a lot of people which is my main goal anyway. Maybe someday when I’m gone someone will think of me and be like that guy Captain energy who told me how to do this I wouldn’t be able to make this synthesizer connect to that one without video X lol we’ll see what happens my legacy ha ha ha.

Man, I wish I had one I could try and help you out. Have you tried Reddit? There’s a synthesize a group on there and a simpler group. You might want to throw it up there to see if anyone has tried or had any good luck. I’d be happy to take a look at the manual if you want, but if you’re saying, the manual is no help I don’t know that it would help me since I don’t even have the device to like try on… Send me one of these so I can try to help this guy

Are you simply trying to be able to create two projects that essentially sync up through the two DAWS? I use rewire years ago for syncing up the two DAW‘s so that they would sort of play nice together… As in like I would set up my base lines and reason and my drums and will say and then I would do my lead stuff in Cuba because a lot of the lead stuff used actual hardware which Reason kind of sucks for. Is that what you’re trying to accomplish?

@@Cap10NRGMusic , Yes, essentially. Reason as a VST means a new rack for each instrument or effect. Reason via Rewire allowed you to use one rack of synths, samplers etc and you could then choose anything from that one rack in Cubase from Cubase midi tracks. Save the Reason project with its content as a preset Rack. I had one Reason project set up for rock, one for EDM, etc... Now the "Rack" concept is somewhat lost unless you're using Reason's sequencer.

Funny, you should ask… I’m actually putting together a new patch library for the CS6X, also for a couple of the Behringer synthesizer. I will probably do a video demoing. The sounds and then have them up on my Gumroad account… Probably to the tune of 10 cents per patch so like a 20 patch bank two dollars or maybe I’ll just do donation based or something with a minimum of a dollar. But yes, I’m working on some patches right now as we speak. I’m trying to get some holiday sounds together as well as some more modern dance sounds. I actually just got the patch editor working on my Windows 11 machine… Which was very tricky and might do a video on that because it’s the one that’s not supposed to work on anything older than windows XP I believe or 98. It was kind of crazy to get it working. There were a whole bunch of settings that I had to change in the launcher on windows. Mac folks are just kind of hosed I think at this point because the Mac version simply does not run on modern max. It’s a whole new processor, of course because back in the day when they wrote the editors, they were written for the power PC, which was later replaced by the Intel, and is now replaced by the M processors… Making backward compatibility and absolute 100% nightmare lol. But what are you gonna do… Time marches on I guess I actually thought of writing a new editor for the CS6X I simply don’t have the time to do it though. I would love to have a modern editor for all of the Yamaha vintage keyboards of that time period. I guess we’ll see what happens lol. But yeah sounds coming soon. Probably be a few that I just give away too so yes sub up if you haven’t already and you’ll know when they get dropped! Have an awesome day and thank you for asking and thank you for watching the video. And you’re so lucky to have that AN plug-in! Highly sought after!

@@Cap10NRGMusic cool. I'd love to see a demo of you creating a patch. I learn more by watching and doing than RTFM.

You bet - sub and when it drops you should get notified but it should be in the next week or so!

@ already subscribed!

I’m not 100% sure but I am happy to try to help you out with it. First - is your Mac mini an “M” processor or Intel? Do you have speakers and an external microphone? Are you using a sound interface (like a Focusrite or something) or internal?

A texture lab is primarily one track… This is kind of essentially like a four track version of that in a way but the texture lab is actually more powerful in its sound design… Just not as capable overall it’s more of a sound generating tool. Which is very helpful if you have a sampler, or use sampling software.

Yeah these synths are all kind of tricky. They only look simple lol. I’ll have to check with my sales representative to see if it might have been pushed forward and is coming sooner than originally expected! That would be amazing!! Best of luck and happy music making to you!

You are welcome glad you liked it!

Hey, thanks so much. I really appreciate it! Yeah, I understand what you’re saying. I think the same thing it’s like the first thing people go for is the reverb they drown it and you can’t even tell if it’s a good synthetic… In fact whenever I have a sound, that’s not good and I wanna make it sound better. That’s the first thing I go for is reverb so yeah I follow ya. I’m old-school too. We didn’t always have reverb back in my day… Lol if you like the video, don’t forget to sub. I’ll catch you later and I’ll be doing the other synthesizes in this group of sense as well shortly… (Crave, edge, and hopefully God willing spice will show up one day)

Awesome I really hope you enjoyed them! I still use my SEQTRAK pretty much every day at some point for a few minutes even I may not make a full track with it but it’s wicked fun to just noodle around with and make a quick little loop here and there. I think that thing is amazing. And it pairs really nice with a lot of different other synthesizes. The funniest part is I actually use it more than I use my actual 808 and 909 as a drum kit because it’s just so dang simple to set up and use and set up loops on.

Which Casio?

Dude, I forgot about the Fizmo! I wanna say that I heard that the price of those was going up because of some situation, it might’ve been some RUclipsr lol like myself I guess… Who you getting a video and got people interested in it.

Yeah, let me know how it goes. I definitely offer help beyond this if I can if it’s something else. I am definitely willing to try and get this figured out with you.

Hey there - hmmm interesting... How did you format the drive? Did you format it on the PC and put it in the Force, or format it on the Force and then try to read it on the PC? Can the Force read it without any issue? I can make a quick video to show you how but here is a quick step-by-step: 1. Browse the files on your Force/MPC 2. Select the card you want to open - usually SD cards have a little "Up Arrow" on the right so you can eject the card in software to avoid damaging it. 3. Press SHIFT - the menu at the bottom of the screen should change to show the following options - Sample Assign / Load Sequence / Delete File / Drive Info / Load All - select Drive Info 4. Double check to be sure it is the drive you want to format (Mine is a a32 GB drive and it shows 29.5GB for Drive Size and Free Space 21.2, yours will be different) 6. At the bottom of this screen you will see 2 options... Ok = which brings you out of the menu / and Format Drive = which will format the SD card properly for your Force. You may need to follo the prompts - can't remember what comes next but just answer teh questions then save something to the drive and try to read it on your PC again... Also IMPORTANT - if you are taking it out of the Force - ABSOLUTELY NEVER REMOVE IT - UNLESS YOU HAVE EJECTED THE DRIVE FIRST!!!! I lost a 64GB card to this so I am speaking from the expeience that losing about a year of content teaches you... Always be safe with your data. I hope that helps

Well, as much as I wish I had connections… I don’t ha ha ha. I got mine through Sweetwater. I pre-ordered it like day one probably one of the first orders they had for it so I know I got my order in early. I already paid for my spice so hopefully that shows up in February as they’re saying it will. Or I guess they’re saying it should. You could check Sweetwater and see if they’ve got any available they did have a big shipment come in of them according to my guy. But that was about a week and a half ago.

And at this price, I feel like they’ll be a popular Christmas item if they can be found

@@Cap10NRGMusic exactly, I’m trying to sell my Moog DFAM so I can get this and the Spice also! Such a great deal for the amount of synth you get.

@byronvisiado09 yeah man I can’t say I’m disappointed with it. I don’t know if you listen to.@synthsamurai(I think I spelled that right, but probably not lol) he’s a fellow RUclipsr and a nice guy from what I can tell. I don’t really know know him that well just from his streams, but he seems like a nice guy very much likes Behringer… His thought is that Behringer may put out a polyphonic version of this synthesizer eventually. I could totally see that happening in either the monopoly / poly-d format or something else maybe something totally new. This is of course, just speculation. This is based on nothing other than wishes lol. But it would be pretty awesome. I just don’t know that Behringer wants to take on Arturia and bring out a micro freak after all the flack they got from bringing out the swing, their mini key controller.

It must be hard to be a moron… tell me bout your experience as one.

Yeah, it’s probably not for everybody… I mean most module gear isn’t really for everybody. It takes commitment and determination a lot of times to make this stuff work. Personally, I can’t wait to get myself a spice and do a four device jam session. I think they will all sound really good together.

Odd comment as your videos show you playing a Crave and an Edge. Would this not compliment your setup?

@@johnsmith-nd9yo yeah I didn’t make the comment about I wouldn’t play it if it was given to me that was somebody else. I’m just saying maybe this isn’t for everybody. I think it’s great lol and I think it sounds amazing in my set up.

@@hanzvolt lol assuming you’re talking to the guys says he wouldn’t play it if he was given one

Interesting… I don’t seem to have as many problems with it as you seem to be having I’m not sure if you’re having problems as a result using it to plug-in or standalone. I would probably report these issues you having to reason Studios if they are bugs, I would hope that they would take a look at them and try to resolve them.

@Cap10NRGMusic The midi movement is annoying, if I have it on bar more the mkdi should stay into that same bare location no mater what bar its on so I I can copy paste but currently if I click and drag to copy the midis jumping all other the flifin place into different locations. A simple task in midi edit is next to impossible.

Honestly, that’s kind of a hard question to answer because well one I don’t have a Roland SH201 to compare it to I could do a spec comparison on paper but… Paper doesn’t tell the whole story, also I think better is a state of mind in a lot of ways And a a lot more to do with how you like to work. I personally love this keyboard and completing the collection of the AN1x CS1x CS2x and CS6x was super important to me… But I am a huge 90s techno, euro dance, trance nerd lol. I like the operating system on them all of those keyboards. They all operate pretty similarly and it’s what I’m used to if that makes sense. So I really would have a tough time comparing it to the SH20 one. I was actually thinking today you know it’s weird. I don’t have any Roland gear, which I think is a bit odd… But I digress I have rolling clones I suppose. One thing I did notice I don’t really know the unit but from what I can tell on the Internet, it’s only got full voice polyphony. Where this unit the CS2X has 64 voice polyphony so if you’re trying to do production, I feel like you get a lot more mileage out of the CS2X, also it’s multi timbral which, though I spelled, that wrong allows U to play multiple voices on it simultaneously. The reason you would use something like that would B that U could set up a 909 drum kit, a lead sound, bass, strings… A bunch of instruments basically can play up to up to 16 independent instruments at a time or 13 instruments if you’re using one of the performance voices. So I mean, you could use the CS2X as your entire band where the SH20 one would be one single instrument. It depends how you like to perform and it depends what you want to do. Also, you can pick this unit up used for two $150-$300 in decent shape as I did so the cost is pretty reasonable and it’s a pretty nice w synth!

@Cap10NRGMusic thanks for the reply it's very detailed If you were thinking about getting a Roland synthesizer and I sent the message that maybe the universe giving you a sign lol Here locally in Texas there's a Yamaha CS 2x that are guys trying to sell me for $140 Also there's a lady selling a Roland s h 201 for $220 I'm leaning more towards the Yamaha for the price point and the versatility But I'm trying to justify buying another synthesizer as I have like so many. This GAS is getting the best of me lol

@christhedemocrat oh I hear you man I’m so bad. I feel like I’m gonna change my name to Cap10Exxon lol!!

​@@christhedemocrat The prices for those synths seem decent, assuming they are in good condition. I’ve never owned them, but I know they work very differently from one another, so it can be hard to compare them. The SH-201 is a subtractive synth, allowing for extensive tweaking of parameters to shape your sound (LFOs, oscillators, filters, etc.). However, it’s not well-suited for creating acoustic instrument sounds, if at all. It’s sought after because it features the supersaw oscillator from the JP-8000, which is very popular in trance music. The CS2x, on the other hand, is a rompler, meaning it uses samples as its sound source instead of oscillators. This is both its strength and its weakness. On the one hand, you can find acoustic instrument samples if that’s what you’re after (though don’t expect the high fidelity of more expensive models like the Korg M1). On the other hand, you won’t be able to tweak those samples much beyond combining them, adjusting the volume envelope, or applying a filter. Paradoxically, it might seem more versatile but also a bit rigid at the same time. Hope this helps!

You can filter und use various effects on them though - I personally home not been hampered by the way you make patches on the CS2x I think both synths would be great. Depends what you want to do though and how much you want to “squeeze out of your investment”. Honestly if you want a great synth to add all those other sounds - for $50 get yourself a Behringer JT4000m - best $50 piece of hardware I have ever bought and it is based on the JP8000 - so Super Saw : CHECK!! :)

Not sure if you’re asking “in general” or specifically the CS2x - but here goes… on the CS2x you can have one “performance voice” which has 4 layers, each layer is a sound or could be considered an oscillator each layer can be tuned, have its own LFO that can effect amplification, pitch, and filter. You can map each OSC to the knobs or MOD wheel and control pretty much any attribute so the answer there is yes. If you are asking in general using a sampler like an MPC - some devices yes and some devices no. Some samplers are a single sample (or Oscillator) at a time others can have layer sounds. Now I’m not 100% sure about tuning variations off layers on MPC but I believe it is possible and with MPC 3 we go from 4 samples per sound to 8 so…. You could vet nuts with that if it works. I will give this a try and maybe make a video showing it if it works like I think it will and I’ll tag you to let you know. Do t forget to sub so you’ll see the results

@@Cap10NRGMusic Uh , yes , it's not 100 o/o analog modeling . You are right - 2 layers of the same sound and detune just 1 or both couple procent for richer , more lush sound . Did you try direct sampling with mic or from analog synth ? I am about 6X . Thanks for info !

💯 agree!! The texture lab with the Amb0 is a match made in swirly musical texture heaven!! Bass and beats is one of the units I don’t have sadly - I really should get it before the US starts adding tariffs.i like it with the SMPLtrek though or the LOfi12

@@OVERCAST-sv3ni can you tell me specifically what equipment you have so I can see what cord you would need I’ll definitely help you out. Just do me a favor and subscribe. Tell your friends about the channel or whatever lol I appreciate it.

@@Cap10NRGMusic will do, already liked the vid :D Anyway, The speakers have a single connection. It is a standard headphone, or audio cord that connects right into the JT4000m. I will then be purchasing the behringer swing, which has a USB midi. Its got a lot of connections on the back, and should probably work with what I'm trying to accomplish 🤔 Thanks for responding so quickly 🙃

Hey there sorry I had “misplaced” this thread - but I found you again haha. Ok so your speakers hook directly and you just want to be able to use a physical piano key device with the JT4000? So there is no computer in this music rig (I’m assuming) if that is the case - get yourself a DoReMidi MIDI host box amzn.to/4icjRZd This is an affiliate link just you know, you pay the same amount - I’ll make like 5 cents or something if you buy it… Anyway this interface will give a USB-MIDI, a real set of MIDI I/O ports and allow you to connect it directly to another MIDI device and control/play it. If there IS a computer in this rig, you just need a DAW(there are plenty of free ones like GarageBand on Mac and Sonar on PC) and you will be able to hook it up to your computer and get making music from there. From what your setup looks like you may not need any additional cables, just that interface if DAWLESS is your goal. You may eventually need a small mixer and other cables for more gear but right now you should be good!

@@Cap10NRGMusic awesome, thanks alot for your time. This helped emencily.

@ absolutely! We all have to start somewhere right. That’s why I started this channel actually was to help people out so if you ever need anything, hit me up I’m usually able to help if I can’t I will let you know. And I hope you have an awesome time making music!

Hey hey, thanks for the comment! I know you have two of them. I have played one of them back in New Hampshire when we used to hang out in real life lol. You brought it up to my apartment. Good to hear from you, my man!

Hey, thanks for asking point not that I know of. I was just feeling it at the moment honestly that’s usually how I do these demos. I don’t really go in with any kind of preconceived song in my head. I just kind of listen to the sound and see what it inspires and, yeah that’s it. Honestly, I don’t know if it is it might be from something or it might be something I heard somewhere. I don’t recall honestly. It could just be that it’s an arpeggiator which is based on a scale and might just be something that other people have used… They’re not really patented copy written whatever they’re just a way to play a scale and a lot of synthesizes use them so it’s possible that that might be what it was. Thanks for asking though commercial😉

Hello - I’m guessing that you’re referring to the USB-C splitter I used. These are on Amazon amzn.to/3AWT9TF but please be aware, in the end - in order to convert this to MIDI and use it with devices that DIDN’T HAVE. Their own midi controller I still had to buy a DO RE MIDI MIDI HOST adapter. At the cost of that adapter, if you don’t need it for other things you might do just as well selling your original JT4000 and “upgrading” to the JT4000M which now DOES have a Real midi connector. Sorry if that was confusing I thought it was working in the video the way I wanted it too… But it turned out that the MPC actually has a controller on board that took care of the necessary connection and most other devices do not have that it turns out… But the splitter does work if you want to power it off something else and just play it or power it from a power bank and connect it to a different device like a PC, a Mac, an MPC, or in akai force. I hope that helps

Thank you!! Wicked glad you found it helpful!

@@HOLLASOUNDS hey man, good to hear from you! Yes, they would. I actually did that experiment with some Rob Pappin instruments if you have the same instrument loaded on one versus the other and the same patch of course then yes you get the exact same thing the only thing you might bump into which seem to happen, a couple of the instruments for some reason somehow the octaves got whacked… Like my base sound from Cubas imported into reason instead of being an A1 it was an A4… Which was very strange so I had to transpose it down, but the notes were there they were the wrongso I mean yes it is possible to do that. Thanks for asking a question man. I appreciate it. I hope you’re doing awesome and if I don’t get to talk to you soon, I hope you enjoy your holidays… They are approaching once again.

@Cap10NRGMusic I think We should be exporting midi for every project both a multi midi and single midi format, which is something important to note that they are not the same thing. A multi midi file saved all midi data in a project all channels and all modulation but that is not what We want if We want to just have the note data. This midi packs they just have the single midi from a single channel track out so for that your going to cut just the midi no modulation onto a new channel export that as a loop on its own. I'm good, I'm just working out how to do better video's but in a organised way that doesn't take to much time and effort. I watched this How to grow on RUclips vid that said there's 4 different categories 1 Hero content which focus in a experience, 2 Tutorial channel's, 3 documentary or story telling channels 4 Reaction channels. I have been doing all of these on My channel and apparently thats very had, so now I need to just pick one and do that, and apparently My channel would do better. The most successful videos on My channel are commentary video whic falls into 3 because it presenting information and a point of view so is like a basic documentary.

@HOLLASOUNDS that’s interesting - the RUclips content info there. I mean - I guess I primarily do help/tutorial videos and I do have some “info/reaction” videos - with a splash here and there of other info but I’ve stuck to those 2 areas mostly. I do t have the time to do documentaries and not really even sure what a hero/experience video is haha. The file that I exported from CUBASE was a multitrack midi file and it included modulation so it wasn’t just notes. I like how it actually kept the titles of the tracks with it, I haven’t exported midi in a long time for any practical reason anyway, but I don’t recall when I used to do it in the 90s and early 2000s if the names of the tracks came with it. Or maybe they just want imported on the receiving end, not sure. When you export MIDI from CUBASE there are a bunch of options, I guess more like a handful. You can select a few different options and get different types of files out of it. You can choose PPQ. Just notes. Oh and tracks that are muted in CUBASE don’t get exported- interestingly.

@Cap10NRGMusic Hero content is like this "I try this new synth asnd made a creazy beat" they are showing what there doing but its not actually a tutorial. Documentary style includes research video or videos where your focused on sharing a opinion and showing why you have that opinion but is not a reaction video. The video where I talk about Akai being out of date and using ild technology is a bassic documentary, I make a points, show and talk about why I have that opinion or point of view and the evidence I have for that opinion or point of view.

@Cap10NRGMusic Midi format hasn't changed from the 80s, and yes there was always single midi files sith just one line of data and multi midi files which have multiple tracks, modulation and names. Multi midi files are what make those self playing or musical toys work, and play songs while moving around or do a action, seen allot in Christmas toys.

@@SMF-007 hey you might be right! I’m not saying that the device as it is is bad I think it’s great. I use it all the time. But it definitely has room for improvement and some bug corrections. Lots of workarounds… So hopefully fingers crossed will know at NAMM that’s what I’m hoping anyway

The biggest difference as far as I could tell when they were NEW was the EX5 had a sampler and could have additional memory added to it where the CS6X only had a phrase sampler and the Ram was small and not expandable . The difference, if you are not into samplers, was that the EX5 could have, say, each instrument from an orchestra and play each one, and the CS6X could only record loops and chop them across keys. I actually also believe the EX was more, like the MOTIF, a general purpose sound set for ANY kind of music, where the CS6X was 100% geared to electronic dance music, euro, house, hip-hip…. I have always wanted an EX to ‘round-out’ my collection, but people want too much for them and my Montage (and technically the MODX+) are ‘better’ than either of them. TheMODX+ is essentially a ‘home version’ of the Montage, which in my opinion - is freaking so good it’s bonkers.

@@Cap10NRGMusic Are there any good points about the CS6x?

@@Cap10NRGMusic Dont forget the CS6X can also have the AN1X expansion board too. I always wanted the CS6X but i went for the EX7 instead. I might start looking at some of the 90s synths again over on Ebay after Xmas .

@thepcgamer2169 actually the ply boards work in both synths ;)

Awesome!! Very excited for you. Enjoy your first drive with this amazing synth 😀