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I've had my 760 since '95. It's the best. The drum sounds are KILLER. Killer because they sound real with great expression from the multi samples on the kick hats and snares. Cymbals ring forever if you want them to.
Loops are cool but if you're into programming your own drum tracks this is the machine. Of course, you have to have the CDroms. I have the Clearmountain II disc. Lots of useful stuff on that but I tend to go with alot of the original Roland preview disk. I still use a lot of those preview sounds. I also have the GIGAPAK 2 CD set. Tons of useful stuff on that too.
If you want to tweak sounds you can get lost for weeks experimenting. Once you get used to the concept of how the machine lays out sounds it's REAL easy. Sample tweaks (and song performances/mixes) can be saved in a volume per song to floppy. Actual physical sample edits need to be saved as their own patch. The Volume Dump won't recognize it if you didn't save the sample edit.
The only way to fly on this machine is with full memory, digital card, mouse and monitor. You can get by without the DA400 expander. With 24 voices, where are you expanding to?
There's really only 2 bad things about this machine: 24 voice polyphony and the hard drives only recognizing 600 meg. For the hard drive issue, just get more drives. They're $20 on ebay for external SCSI's.
With the advent of digital recording custom samples have basically turned into digital tracks so that shouldn't be a problem anymore.
24 voices is not enough. That's why I'm looking for another one. Hans Zimmer had 20 of 'em back in the day.(maybe 30? I don't remember) That oughta say something.
If this machine had even double the polyphony you would never see it for sale. I think it's that good.
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