Thursday, January 22, 2015

Namm 2015 Roundup: Roland JD Xi, JD XA, Dave Smith Prophet 6

Roland JD Xi

This one looks pretty good, except for the small keys (you can play triplets, but still my hands are too big for it). Its pretty much an analog / digital, all-in-one, groove keyboard. I haven't seen a demo from the digital side except that it has supersaw. I really hope these voice well and combine the oscillators in a patch. But whats even better is the Roland JD-XA!

If you are into keyboards, this is obviously the one you will want to wait for.

What else?

DAVE SMITH PROPHET 6!





It sounds great again and is packed with features! It looks like a revisit to the Prophet 5.  Its really good looking! Listen to it here on soundcloud. I like it when these companies are fully ready to show everything off.

Where is Yamaha? I don't know yet...

So far I think these are the best products to post up. Korg has some nice new replicas, and there are some other analog monophonics, but those are not things I'm into...the tech is just too old! I need patch memory.

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