JD-Xi successor with more tracks, touchscreen sequencer?
Posted: 03:44, 24 August 2017
Hi, I am very tempted to buy the JD-Xi (after watching Woody Piano Shack's videos on YouTube). A couple years ago I bought an Electribe2 but I barely used it it's just too confusing to use and having lost Korg's proprietary mini jack to MIDI adapter and hard to get a new one I am not able to record the type of music I would like to do on the Electribe2. I need a keyboard and I need a much more intuitive sequencer user interface.
But some of the limitations on JD-Xi are a bit sad, aren't they?
- Why does it only support 4 tracks as far as I understand of which 2 must be MIDI, 1 must be drums and 1 must be the analog?
- Why does it only support 4 bars in the sequencer? Why can't users create a full song in the sequencer?
Did Roland not fix the 4 tracks and 4 bars limitation in a firmware update?
And I wish the sequencer also had a nice display color like on the FA-08 but also as a touch-screen to be able to control and edit each track in the sequencer, to modify/edit each note in each track, or perhaps synchronizing the JD-Xi to an Android phone or tablet to be able to do that would be fine, could they sync a device like a successor to the JD-Xi using Bluetooth to an Android phone or tablet?
I wish that nice looking vocoder microphone could be used to sing and record your singing voice onto your song in the sequencer, but as far as I understand JD-Xi can't do that. It's only vocoding, no singing.
As far as I understand the MIDI sound presents on JD-Xi don't include acoustic instruments like Grand Piano, acoustic bass, brass, strings etc? I guess perhaps these can be loaded through the Axiol website, but I wonder why those types of instruments wouldn't be included by default. Can't they include enough storage capacity or SD memory card expansion for enough instruments to be available to use in the default package?
Because of all these limitations on JD-Xi, I am then possibly instead considering to get a FA-08 workstation that perhaps can do everything that I want, although the sequencer user interface without a touch-screen on the FA-08 also sounds like it might be confusing/limited, and obviously that it might be really complicated for me to travel with the FA-08 as I have no experience checking-in such a large 88-key keyboard on an airplane. It's impressive to me it seems that the JD-Xi is compact enough it might fit in my airplane check-in luggage. I love the idea of easily being able to travel around with my music workstation machine keyboard synth.
So there, I love the Roland sound, and I had a D-10 in the early 90ies as my second synth as a teenager, but the limitations in the sequencer and the potentially confusing user interfaces worry me a bit. I would like to be able to do all the sequencing on the device itself and not have to use a DAW software on a laptop.
But some of the limitations on JD-Xi are a bit sad, aren't they?
- Why does it only support 4 tracks as far as I understand of which 2 must be MIDI, 1 must be drums and 1 must be the analog?
- Why does it only support 4 bars in the sequencer? Why can't users create a full song in the sequencer?
Did Roland not fix the 4 tracks and 4 bars limitation in a firmware update?
And I wish the sequencer also had a nice display color like on the FA-08 but also as a touch-screen to be able to control and edit each track in the sequencer, to modify/edit each note in each track, or perhaps synchronizing the JD-Xi to an Android phone or tablet to be able to do that would be fine, could they sync a device like a successor to the JD-Xi using Bluetooth to an Android phone or tablet?
I wish that nice looking vocoder microphone could be used to sing and record your singing voice onto your song in the sequencer, but as far as I understand JD-Xi can't do that. It's only vocoding, no singing.
As far as I understand the MIDI sound presents on JD-Xi don't include acoustic instruments like Grand Piano, acoustic bass, brass, strings etc? I guess perhaps these can be loaded through the Axiol website, but I wonder why those types of instruments wouldn't be included by default. Can't they include enough storage capacity or SD memory card expansion for enough instruments to be available to use in the default package?
Because of all these limitations on JD-Xi, I am then possibly instead considering to get a FA-08 workstation that perhaps can do everything that I want, although the sequencer user interface without a touch-screen on the FA-08 also sounds like it might be confusing/limited, and obviously that it might be really complicated for me to travel with the FA-08 as I have no experience checking-in such a large 88-key keyboard on an airplane. It's impressive to me it seems that the JD-Xi is compact enough it might fit in my airplane check-in luggage. I love the idea of easily being able to travel around with my music workstation machine keyboard synth.
So there, I love the Roland sound, and I had a D-10 in the early 90ies as my second synth as a teenager, but the limitations in the sequencer and the potentially confusing user interfaces worry me a bit. I would like to be able to do all the sequencing on the device itself and not have to use a DAW software on a laptop.