Product: Cheetah MS-800
Price Paid: Pounds sterling (No euro) 99.99 used
Submitted
08/07/1999
at
05:18am
by
Malcolm Ramage
Email: malcolm<at>ramage39 dot freeserve dot co dot uk
Ease of Use
:
1
What a pain! With the manual it's nearly impossible to use, so make sure the manual is there.
Features
:
1
Polyphony varies depending on the complexity of the voices used! Anything from 15 notes to 4 notes. No effects, not needed as complex voices can be made (if your able to figure it out!). MIDI is a pain, it will hog all 16 MIDI channels at all times, so it needs a port on its own. Velocity sensative, sysex and note information, thats it for MIDI, but the sound...
Expressiveness/Sounds
:
8
The sounds are something else!!! Simple plinks and plonks to sweeping evolving pads and everything in between, all thanks to the wavetable synthesis. Good for ambient, techno, just about anything really, but don't expect a nice piano sound, this thing does not do real instruments! If you have the brain of a planet and a manual, you can program your own sounds into it, it is daunting, the display is crap and confusing, but persivere and the sounds you can create are fantastic. Nothing else comes close to this, no filters but the sound just cuts through the mix anyway. A word of warning though, the output can be noisy if its not looked after!
Reliability
:
9
Mine has been fault free for five years, good job as there are no spares!!! I would not gig with it, but thats for a different reason (The MIDI problem)
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Cheetah music are no more.
Overall Rating
:
7
I would kill to get another of these, it could be better but I like the sound. If you see one, make sure it has a manual, otherwise leave well alone!!!
