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Original Message 1/10 29-Aug-97 @ 12:30 AM - Alesis NanoBass

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Anyone know how it sounds?

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Message 2/10 29-Aug-97 @ 04:51 AM - RE: Alesis NanoBass

nimanda

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As far as I know it�s a stupid sample-playback machine.
why stupid? because it�s 64voices. How needs a 64 voice bass module?????? stay away from it (I state that this is only my opinion though) but bass should be faaaaaaaaaat!
Check out the SE-1 from studio electronics it�s FAT, totally analog, no virtual stuff on this baby, expensive though

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Message 3/10 29-Aug-97 @ 10:52 AM - RE: Alesis NanoBass

kilo

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well, it is a simple box rammed full of bass sounds taken from the Q series synths.......agreed, the plyphony is a bit over the top, but that is surely a consequence of simply transfering the chip from another unit.

I aint tried one, but the SOS review simply stated it has stacks of bass sounds, easily obtainable without loads of editing.....and that usually there is a bass sound quickly available for any style you want, from deep subbasses, hip hop solid basses etc to acoustic basses and everything inbetween.......For me the price was more the beef.......it comes in in the UK at about 340 quid.....so no doubt the big stockists like Turnkey will be bunging it out for around 320 or whatever..........I feel that whilst that may be a realistic price for such a new unit, the same money will buy you a secondhand sampler......which may be more usefull in the long run........However.......check it out maybe if you have a lot of kit yet seem to be lacking a selection of bass sounds, or you have some dosh to loose, and you're tired of having to try to edit stuff you already have to create contemporary bass sounds....maybe then it's worth it......I tghink they should have made it 8 note poly, and about 199 quid !!.......

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Message 4/10 29-Aug-97 @ 10:54 AM - RE: Alesis NanoBass

Kilo

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oh yeah........It is only 64 note if it is utilising a single osc' patch....however, if you go for a 2 or 4 layer sound, then it drops to 32 or 16 note poly.......so there's the reason.

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Message 5/10 13-Sep-97 @ 04:06 PM - RE: Alesis NanoBass

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its seems cool to me

Bj�rn

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Message 6/10 16-Sep-97 @ 07:04 PM - RE: Alesis NanoBass

kai.daguerre

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Its great for acoustic and other 'natural' bass sounds, which a lot of dedicated bass modules don't provide (the squelchy synthy ones are pretty good too,)

Carlsboro retail quoted me a price of �250

I'm getting one....

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Message 7/10 07-Oct-97 @ 06:04 PM - RE: Alesis NanoBass

cantwell

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I got one a little over a week ago and love the sound. The biggest gripe is lack of multitimbrality, but hell, I paid US$250 for it. It has some great sound, no worries about dropping notes considering its polyphony, and a few decent effects for each sound when you run it off of MIDI. There's no battery-backed RAM, but you can get in and edit sounds as well from the base waveforms - or at least in theory... I'm actually searching for a program which will let me do that...

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Message 8/10 08-Oct-97 @ 03:58 PM - RE: Alesis NanoBass

kilo

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er.......the SE-1 unit costs over a grand mate, whereas the Nano is only as quoted above, as low as 250 quid...........tell you what.......why not get instead of the crappy nanobass an emu E4K....they are only about 4000 quid...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Message 9/10 08-Oct-97 @ 04:03 PM - RE: Alesis NanoBass

cantwell

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Exactly. You have to make sacrifices when you're getting started - in this case, I still feel the greatest sacrifice is multitimbrality. But hell, you can just take samples of whatever length with whatever effect, and use those, too... The answer to multitimbrality with everything else...

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Message 10/10 10-Oct-97 @ 04:53 PM - RE: Alesis NanoBass

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the SB is $900 the SE-1 is $1200..... sorry man but I will definitely pay $300 more for those specs. and those sounds. you can take a SB and a Pulse + your best orgasm and you still cant come close to the SE-1 sound

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