Too infected?

[r3dnaX]

Originally Posted by Panopticon

Hmm, I was also wondering how many of you own the Alesis Ion. I'm thinking I might need one of those...any insight?

I do. I've had it for about two months now. I love it - it's really raw sounding. I also had to get a TC M300 delay and reverb unit for it as it has no built in delay FX to speak of.

There's an excellent users group at Yahoo which I read up on (every post) before I bought mine, here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alesis-ion/messages/ The early posts from many analogue purists really convinced me to check this keyboard out at Digital Village as I have to say that when the Ion was initially launched, I had kind of already dismissed this keyboard as a cheapo A6 wannabe.

Unfortunately, lately the Yahoo group has turned into a bit of a pissing match with many users (probably 50%) complaining about something called a "ghost edit bug" in the OS or the potentiometers and appears to randomly edit parameters. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones as mine just doesn't have this problem. It's even got so bad that Alesis have removed the users group link from their Ion site !!!! 8O

I've just remebered I answered a similar question on the SOS website summarising my likes and dislikes. Hang on, it's here: http://sound-on-sound2.infopop.net/2...167#7263006167

BTW - the SOS review is still only available to eSubscribers (it was originally in the Sep '03 issue)

Hope this helps

r3dnaX