Quote Originally Posted by theledge View Post
I have now seen 4 people individually buy one of these thinking they were going to make squirly acid lines with them

In fact - that's all the people I've ever known own one.....

I wonder how many extra they sold in total, on account of having a famous number after their name :lol:
I think they sold quite a few. They were good for what they did, but yeh the sounds were shite. I think I got mine on the strength that reading reviews, the RM1-x was more complex to use (and more expensive). I stand by them for that, mine taught me the basics of chucking loops together, but I brought other boxes to get sounds from.

In fact, damn them, that's probably why I got so many boxes lol

I used mine as a live sequencer for about 5 years, and it was quite good for doing loop based things live. The fact you can write a pattern and then set up mute variations and pull them back with one button was good.

I will maintain they have one good sound - take the tom sound, play it low so it sounds crusty and almost bit crushed with a crazy arpeggiator pattern, random panning and reverb. That's about it though.

Mine does still come out occasionally if I'm feeling uninspired, 'cos the arpeggiator and groove quantise is quite fun to produce some random synthline pattern. But it does get recorded into the RM1-x or the computer to piss about with.

Ahhh I'm all nostalgic for the crap little thing...