I understand what you guys are saying about the live sound. My main concern is with the "quality" of sounds emanating from the Midjay and/or Sonic Cell. You have to listen above and "beyond" the 'noise' and discover the real quality of sound(s) in each of them. The Midjay to me has a good live sound but have you listened to the other Midjay demos on the KetronUS.com web site? A lot of them to my ears are sub par in quality. Granted, the "main demo" is good but there is a mixture of .mp3 and/or .wav audio sound(s) inserted throughout the song that draws attention away from the sounds of the Midjay and draws ones attention to the vocals, etc. and so the main demo, in my opinion, is not a fair comparison when one wants to hear just the sounds of a particular module e.g. Midjay, the Sonic Cell, etc. But it is true that the Sonic Cell also has the capability of adding and mixing .wav and .mp3, etc. into a songs mix but for our purpose we are trying to compare apples to apples not apples to oranges.
The song I posted i.e. "It's Gonna Take Some Time" was pieced together by me and I didn't add any effects to it at all. Also, some of the voices I used were indeed from the GM2 bank i.e. the drums for one. As far as the Midjay demos go you can definitely tell Ketron used effects in the making of the demos.
Okay, here is another song from the Sonic Cell and this one is a factory demo that I recorded straight from my Sonic Cell to my PC using my Sound Forge recording software. I did add some effects to this song to give it that long sought after "live" sound that everybody craves.
"Live" is good though.. I have nothing against "live" sound. I do believe that is one of the main goals the Big Three and others should try and achieve regarding their arranger keyboards and/or sound modules, etc.
>> If there are still any naysayers regarding the Sonic Cell's potential as a professional sound module versus the Midjay, who Donny says is in another league
, (yeah.., another league in 'price' that's for sure
LoL), then hopefully those apprehensions will be quelled and dismissed after listening to this song. Enjoy!! And fasten your seat belts..
Mach Juan BTW, decent speakers are a must if you want to accurately discern the sound. Thought I'd pass that along
, not to say that any of our distinguished synthzone members would dare to try and discern sound quality on, let's say, a pair of $29.95 Radio Shack specials or something similar hooked up to their PC's.... Nah!!!
Not our bunch.
Best,
Mike
[This message has been edited by keybplayer (edited 01-06-2008).]