From fleep@mpx.com.auFri Jun 23 10:56:32 1995 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 95 11:22 EST From: Phillip Mills To: atomic city Cc: MATT SAUER , analogue@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: Siel/SCI Max At 8:55 22/6/95, atomic city wrote: >I don't know very much about the MIDI controllability of the Expander, >but the DK-600 was a surprisingly powerful and warm analogue machine. >It had a full front panel and crude but present velocity sensing on its >keyboard. However, the Expander had almost no front panel controls, and >relied very heavily on the 600 itself for control; I have no idea how >handy one would be without a 600 to feed it patches. I do not believe >that it is tweakable via CCs or sysex, I think you can only load patches >into it and play them. In this respect the MAX is superior. Nope! The Siel is superior! Trust me I own one! :) But kids.... I've never used a max, so i cant say whether they are good or bad, but hey its made by SCI so it must be alright (wisshing i had some SCI gear) The siel is sysexable, but I am still trying to figure this out. As to control the expander you plug the midi's form the dk600 (opera 6 in the US) to the expander and edit it via the knobs... so you must be able to do it... It does have MCC 7 and 10 but i think thats it. Apart from that i would look at getting the dk600 with the expander. Then you have a 12voice SSM machine! fleep!