Alesis Micron 37-Key Analog Modeling Synth

- Category: Keyboards and MIDI

-- Subcategory: Compact Synthesizers

Producer: Alesis

Price: $399

Description:
The Micron boasts the same sound engine as the acclaimed Alesis Ion in a compact 3-octave keyboard, offering breakthrough analog realism, high-resolution control, and tremendous value.

Feature:
Stuffed full of features: 500 voice presets, 500 more user, hundreds of patterns and programmed drums, performances, and with a couple of button pushes and knob twists, becomes a great controller keyboard. Really good synth keyboard feel, feels perfect with the internal voices, has good dynamics over midi.

Quality:
I paid $300 for this used; and it's $400 new. Look at the prices of the other compact analog synths; this is a steal; it's well built, but I have had a couple of bad experiences with Alesis, so we'll see how it holds up.

Value:
This is a complete steal. There are voiceless controllers that cost more. Want knobs? Add a UC-16 or -33.

Desirability:
I would add this to any touring rig. It's a cool little silver board with bright red ends that will blow people away with the huge and dynamic sounds coming out of it's tiny size.

Sound:
For the money, this is the best analog board I could buy. I had read about it, but five minutes playing it in my local music store and I bought it. Huge, fat, evolving sounds, great drums and patterns, for so little cash.

Support:
Not needed so far; past experiences with other products were just ok.

Overall:
I have a lot of soft-synths; I have a Yamaha Stage Piano. I'll be getting a bread and butter synth like a Kurzweil PC. But I don't expect to ever need a better analog keyboard. This one handles it.

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