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Almost all of the sounds with any kind of release portion suffer badly from aliasing noise as they die away.

Hmmm - If you're thinking about getting one then these are the things to bear in mind...

1. The Proteus, U-220, Sound Canvas or just about anything that came after it are far superior instruments - if you have the choice then go for one of these. The U-110 was really the first instrument that was basically more a sample playback device than a synth and mistakes made on it were corrected on later models. 2. Six outs is really useful - if you have the mixer channels. 3. No stereo samples whatsoever - be warned. 4. Dead easy to program. 5. Try to get hold of some PCM cards - I haven't got any which I think is a bad mistake. This will massively increase your tonal pallette - don;t forget that there are four slots while the U220 has only two. 6. No filters whatsoever - this does make some of the sample loops rathe obvious. 7. When I say effects that's just chorus and tremolo - No reverb, no delays, no anything remotely useful...

In all honesty I just don't think that it cuts the mustard compared to today's offerings and other available second hand units - sorry.