it sounds thick and warm to be sure, but as i said i did some parallel processing on this track which warmed it up considerably. i have the 10 voice and i’ve never concocted a situation in which that is not enough… i don’t use it in multi mode though. it’s taken quite a while to feel really comfortable with it mostly because it’s hard to visualize how the wave envelopes will affect the sound in advance. it’s unpredictable and different from any other synth i’ve owned. now that i’ve programmed about 100 sounds on it, i’m finally starting to “feel” it, in the sense that i can program the sounds i am hearing, but it’s never an exact outcome, and that keeps me coming back often. it makes it into almost everything i do these days. it definitely has the X factor that makes it greater than the sum of it’s parts. although i still program the ti2 polar a lot, evolver, and bass station2, i find myself working with the XT, sculpting sounds and ideas more than anything else aside from the MnM and OT. it’s becoming more a partner in the process than just being an ingredient or means to an end. i don’t really deal with the on board fx. i have it permanently patched into an eclipse and when i occasionally turn off bypass on that, it’s a new dimension entirely. there is so much intense and intriguing motion in the sounds of the XT, that it often takes away from the patches to turn an effect on though. anyway, that’s my short, emotional take on it as an instrument. the specs are everywhere, and others have written well on that. it’s a life time keeper for me. i used to randomize it in the early days and i still have no clue how some of the patches it came up with are sounding the way they do. people don’t think it be like it is, but it do. it’s just a beast of a synthesizer.
dustward: i saw that you had a link up this morning, but i didn’t get a chance to follow it. can you put it back up?