What's wrong with this keyboard ?
There is so much bugs it's a stupid joke.
I can't even list all of it here !!! Maybe you should release your product when it's finished !!!
There is so much bugs than i just can't use it to work on it.
the sequencer is so buggy is so many ways, i can't record anything serious on it. I can't even imagine use it on stage... !!
I made a list as as soon as I realise there is too many for remember :
The worst :
When you play for exemple some long bass note with just after some short note in staccato, in record mode, the staccato notes are not recorded, even theses are well play in real time (=> well deserved to the midi chanel)...
In the manual P82 : "Step-editing a pattern : Hold the Step button of an existing event and press the key. The velocity value will be remembered." => it could be cool, but it doesn't work.
Sometimes when you past some steps, and copy to another step, the new step is totally buggy : the main encoders leds arn't ON anymore on the new one (and you have no control on it), the new step led is not lighting, but there is some information on it (there is some trigger and gate information coming out of this step you absolutely can't erased, or control, or toggle off...). Truely a joke...
In every way, the past function is a joke : Anything you want to past is somewhat lost, sometimes, it's past, but not really, sometimes, it just say : there is nothing in the copy buffer, and you can redoing the thing a lot of time without any working it... and suddenly, it works. why is that ? you don't event know !
P98 : "SOLO takes priority over Mute" : would be cool if it do it, but it doesn't... When Muted track is soloed, is still muted...
Another bug (with an example) : on the first track sequencer, we play and rec on the fourth patern. Anytime we press Stop, it come back on the first pattern without our consent. it's a bug only shown in the first sequencer
another one : some of your recorded -- and editing because every live recorded with or without quantized is a joke, with a lot of note that doesn't record well -- pattern disappear or going messed up when you going to another pattern and come back. it's often just one chord who is just messed up without reason when it's well played just the last time you launch the pattern...
You can add up the lack of this features :
We can't erase just one page in a pattern (in drum mode in mono, if you copy by mistake, you have to toggle off until 16 steps in 32 tracks, and this is just a "toggle off", not an erase function...)
We can't erase just a note in a chord while in overdub.
We can't erase a step you can just "toggle it off"
There is a lot of things we can't erase or correct in a subtle way.
With the drum sequencer, we can't have (for exemple) a binary beat with some triplet hit-hat added. Goodbye all of the hip hop based drum pattern, good bye, possibilitie of add some triplet break at the end of your binari beat !
The swing is just foward, it can't be backward (why ? goodbye half of the swing of the world cultural music...!)
You can't charge some midi files, read live some external midi and rec it, there is not software sequencer where you can edit your pattern... This would be ok if the sequencers weren't a JOKE full of bugs and wierd things...
I just don't know how to temper my wrath
The worse on that is that i still didn't even try to use it intensively or enter my musics on it ! All this bugs have just showed up on very simple test with the manual ! Ha, the manual is also a joke, full of nonsense and false informations or mispell words (ok, it's not the priority).
Oh, and i get the last update, so i can imagine that the first release was even worse... !
I hope arturia will work very hard to at least transforme this joke on the usable and multi track keyboard/sequencer they promised they sell... !