Hi,
has anyone experience with the new edge? How does it work in terms of playability and controls on stage? How does the Bluetooth work?
atb,
Duplo
AX Edge anyone?
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Tom Williams
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Re: AX Edge anyone?
Wow -- signs of life. Hi Duplo -- we've crossed paths on one or two other forums; it's almost creepy. :-)
I traded up to an Edge from my AX-Synth a couple of months ago.
Upside: excellent, solid keyboard. Built-in patches tend to be useful and full-sounding.
Downside: I have had lousy luck with the Android-based editor, to the point that I have all but given up on personalizing existing patches. As a result, I have not yet been able to make the AX-Edge truly "mine." More to the point, it is currently not as useful to me as the AX-Synth was, even with the much improved controllers and routing capabilities.
Am I dumping it? Nope. It's quite playable, and I am sure I will go at the task of editing/tweaking again soon. I still have high hopes for the instrument.
I traded up to an Edge from my AX-Synth a couple of months ago.
Upside: excellent, solid keyboard. Built-in patches tend to be useful and full-sounding.
Downside: I have had lousy luck with the Android-based editor, to the point that I have all but given up on personalizing existing patches. As a result, I have not yet been able to make the AX-Edge truly "mine." More to the point, it is currently not as useful to me as the AX-Synth was, even with the much improved controllers and routing capabilities.
Am I dumping it? Nope. It's quite playable, and I am sure I will go at the task of editing/tweaking again soon. I still have high hopes for the instrument.
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Re: AX Edge anyone?
Thanks for the reply! I will give the Edge a try soon to replace my JD XA on stage.
Do you use wireless Midi?
Do you use wireless Midi?
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Tom Williams
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Re: AX Edge anyone?
No. Indeed, I am hoping to get the Edge itself to make the sounds I want, although so far the programming experience has been quite unrewarding, due to difficulties with a phone-based editing program.Duplobaustein wrote:Do you use wireless Midi?
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Tom Williams
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Re: AX Edge anyone?
Well, some progress.
I finally got deep enough into the editor on my Android tablet to modify a bass guitar -- changed the effect of the squeezy bar from vibrato to a half-step (one fret) upward pitch bend, and then add a milder pitch bend to the aftertouch. Wrote that out as a new "part" (versus partial -- lousy nomenclature) and saved that program as the new bass guitar at position 2.30.
It feels like every write operation requires a total new re-read of the entire ROM on the AX Edge. Not sure that that's actually occurring, but it sure feels like it.
I finally got deep enough into the editor on my Android tablet to modify a bass guitar -- changed the effect of the squeezy bar from vibrato to a half-step (one fret) upward pitch bend, and then add a milder pitch bend to the aftertouch. Wrote that out as a new "part" (versus partial -- lousy nomenclature) and saved that program as the new bass guitar at position 2.30.
It feels like every write operation requires a total new re-read of the entire ROM on the AX Edge. Not sure that that's actually occurring, but it sure feels like it.