I know that at this point this shouldn't bother me but I just recieved a call from Sweetwater (where I bought my TI), they are not expecting the TI to arrive stateside until April 27th! Man oh man this thing better do all it is supposed to as well as my dishes.

Gets very expensive if a company doesn't sell any products for a 1/2 year. I hope a Waldorf will not happen to Access.

Not owning any Waldorf products and not knowing... what happened to Waldorf?

They went bankrupt. I don't know the reason why but I guess people were buying other products like access and novation more than waldorf. Maybe Waldorf couldn't sell their products at lower prices (however microQ was reasonably priced sometimes) and their new products were very highly priced such as the Q+ (euro 4000), AFB analog filter bank (euro 2500) etc. and maybe people didn't like the thin waldorf sound as much as the other fatter sounding synths. Waldorf should have continued to produce the Pulse or even bring a Pulse keyboard out or something. That would have been supercool! I own a Pulse and it still is one of the fattest sounding boxes I have ever owned. It will definitely never leave my rack.

In fact I am going to buy a Waldorf MicroQ tomorrow to extend the sound palette of my rack. I like waldorf sound too but I wouldn't buy a Waldorf if it was going to be my only synth. I have had already 2 microQ's before. This time I'll try harder to be able to keep this one. It has some great sounds and the filter is good.

:roll:

so we prob wont see them till late may :evil:

Hate to state the bleeding obvious......but the Access website is still saying 'available from march'

Ok, so whats with all this speculation?

DS

I've thought the same thing. They're obviously editing the website. They added the DEMO that we're all listening to. You'd think that they would modify that date if they were really changing it. Yet, on the bottom of the main TI page, it still states December too. :D

Oh yeah.....ive just seen the 'expected tyo ship in December 2004' disclaimer....

hehehe......oh well!

DS

A wise choice my friend, with Waldorf being out of business you can pick them up dirt cheap and they're still wicked synths. People say they're harder to use than the Virus and that they can't get the sound they want out of them and I am convinced it is an operating system thing - make sure you get one with the latest operating system as the OS updates really were major bug fixes / operating glitches, not just minor improvements.

:lol: Classic!

Without going to look at the site though....Does it actually specify a year?