It’s a very very nice synthesizer both visually and aurally, especially for a scifi-nerd like me. It looks like somebody brought it from the future.
Mine broke down in an unusual way. The second oscillator got stuck on one note. Whatever key you played the first oscillator played the note you pressed but the second oscillator always played the same note. I ended up selling it at a discount price as defective unit. If I had it now, I’d take it to some pro to get it fixed.
i’ve already studied the manual and figured out how i would do MIDI input.
but gave myself a few extra days to cool down. it’s many of them in stock at the moment, so a bit of extra thinking definitely won’t harm.
I wish there were the AR-96s too, but they’re sold out everywhere except Thailand.
I’m quite sure they’ll both eventually end up as sought after cult gear like Yamaha Tenori-on etc.
It’s funny that a company like Zoom ended up making something like this which reminds me of the Casio ”Millennium Falcons” and at the same time another department made a classic like the Livetrak -mixers which basically invented a new product class.
i’m thinking on buying 4th Command Station (for spare parts) and reassembling Jon in yellow case.
because yellow paired with red (Boss VF-1) looks so much better.