Hi everyone. This is my first post to this board. I've been reading your comments for a while and I'm glad to be a part of the group. Looking through previous posts, I haven't found much this topic and frankly, Harmony Central hasn't been much help either. So on to the stuff...

I've owned an XP-80 for 3 years and within the last six months I've gotten the Vintage Synth, Bass and Drums, and Orchestral boards. All of these boards are great in my opinion and now I'm looking to fill that final slot with something. I'm into making orchestral/electronic/dance/rock and mixes of any of those (Progressive Dance?). I'd like to get some of your opinions on these two boards (Dance and Techno Collection). It's frankly been a pain trying to find an MP3 sample of the Dance board on the web.

I had the chance to demo some Techno board sounds on the XP-30 a while back, but didn't get to check out the whole thing (my ride was getting pushy and it was either go then or walk home!) From what I tried, I thought it was ok and that I could do some things with it. The industrial drum kit was nice, I don't know about the others.

Sometimes I try and do too much and I don't want to get a board that will make me feel limited by the waveforms (loops anyone?). I'm also concerned that there might be too much unnecessary overlap of synth bass and lead sounds on the Techno and Vintage Synth cards that I could easily avoid and be better off getting the Dance card. Of course price is an issue too, with the Dance card going for $200-$300 on ebay (if you can find one at all!). I can work around waveforms to an extent, but nothing can fix a bad waveform. Read mixed reviews on the Techno board, mostly positive on the Dance. I've considered going for an external module (Virus?) for techno stuff and getting the OrchII to round out my boards. But what I'm mainly looking for is clean, solid, usable 'electronic' drums. Comments? Opinions? Have I said too much? Have I said enough?


MappyPlus