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Xboard e mu7/23/2023 I sold my Edirol PCR-50 to buy it and I do not regret at all, the X Board possde do not have zippers but I used very little (only for B-3 organ like ) is I do not miss. Too bad there have no presets for other synths, you have to patch is the same but as the editor E-MU X Board is not too damn Gnant. I love the touch the knobs are quite enjoyable and rsistants, some may be small, the two knobs perfect. I bought the DS came out and really do not regret it. The aftertouch (very rare in this price range) aporte a real plus in expression! The 16 knobs directly control the Proteus / Emulator X and it's really enjoyable and trs "visual" I do not use the Proteus provided because I possde Emulator X Studio The DJ (card + 1820M Emulator X) on the other hand there is no preset for vsti's march. The editor is very well done for soft, trs readable and the changes are applied directly to the keyboard! good point. Installation is a little bug but it is explained in the manual (which is sufficient but not necessarily clear trs) The touch is superb, it's what motivated my purchase Note that the AC adapter (if you do not plug in USB) and optional MIDI controller / USB (auto feed in this case) 4 octaves Yes MODELS some, but not until the sduit not me. Poor finish plastic base of potentionmtres. The possibility of doing rglages by the software "X-Board Control". VLOC programmable modes "Channel 16, Latch, Snapshot & Bypass") The many opportunities offered by these functions (8 patches and curves Windows automatically chooses otherwise impossible to make updates to Easy to install (same attention right to choose the right drivers not those 2 days (yes I know this is trs short and an update of this opinion will do next) The manual "Fran" (download on the site) is pretty clear. How to find, with the intuition it is easily The select the MIDI channel and patch is simple, and also not really need instructions for Rglages the rest a little sharp and the other functions that I have not had time to test. Pretty simple, I find relatively easy to program the fawn patches without even reading the manual. It is ideal to play my fawn and yet I am demanding this trs l. It is more than enjoyable, never seen one as a touch, especially in this price range. The USB (no power required supplmentaire when you connected the computer) The "Latch" which is handy for some live. The configurable potentiomtres 16 of 16 patches Different. It feels like E-MU cut a couple of corners with this one in order to keep the price down, but the Xboard is a respectable, well-featured controller keyboard nonetheless.- The possibility of having a 49 Keys for less than 150. However, although the rotary controls feel good to use, they're simply too close together - and we're not happy about those flimsy momentary buttons either. The Xboard 49 has a great set of keys and some genuinely useful features. This assigns the same continuous controller value to each of the 16 rotaries, so each one controls that value on the corresponding MIDI channel. Another handy feature is 16 Channel Control Mode. This is particularly useful when you want to trigger loops in a performance environment. This enables you to set up a range of keys to operate as triggers - they play continually until they're pressed a second time. The octave buttons transpose up or down by up to four octaves either way and, when pressed together, send an All Notes Off message (to silence stuck notes).Įlsewhere, the Latch mode is worthy of a quick mention. These are edited using the function buttons, with the slider acting as a data entry control. The 16 memory locations can be used to store keyboard setups. These are the flimsiest examples we've seen in a long time, pitching and rolling when the lower-octave keys are played. On-keyboard editing is handled by 12 momentary buttons. However, there's much more space on top of the Xboard 49, so it could have been made much wider. This appears to be a case of one-size-fits-all engineering: the panel of rotaries is the same size as the one on the smaller Xboard 25. The 16 rotary controls have a good feel to them - they're pleasantly tactile and operate smoothly. They offer a good compromise for those people who want some of the weight of a piano but the speed of a synth. They're solidly built, and play with an action that's on the heavier side of the semi-weighted spectrum.
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