Well as many of you know on here I was unfortunate to buy the Mediastation last September. I have today decided to have a peep at what the one and only Domenico is up to these days and to see if the Mediastation has been improved, which was what it desperately needed. I can safely say that owning one for over a month I can state if an improvement has been made or not, plus I'm off work ill so it gives me something to do lol.


Take a look at http://www.lionstracs.com/site/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=37&catid=37&Ite mid=59
These show some of the latest demos. If the link doesn't work go to the main page and follow the links on there.

The arranger 1 demo still shows the same bloke freaking out with various sounds, it made me laugh when he said piano and took well over 10 seconds to change from an organ sound to the piano, not ideal for live use here, a sound change should be immediately.

Funky 31 nice sort of James Brown style, house3 style quite good with vocoder effects if you like this sort of thing, latinfan very basic, longtrain is poor, drumkit demos nothing special here, vocalshots ideal for the kids to play with, mixstyles demo to me they all sound really tinny and the majority of the demos seem bathed in far too much reverb (reminds me of the G70 version 1 stuff), demostyles (all 8 mins worth) very poor styles on show here, tristezza nice sounding flute and style is quite good, Bluesgm style not very bluesy at all and finally someones rendition of besame mucho well my opinion here is certainly not going to be typed lol - sounds like a poor midi file played back with incorrect chords.

So it looks like Dom has made some minor advancements in the styles area but I still think that the Mediastation is definitely not to be used as an arranger keyboard, it's more for recording with and the DJ market.
It's a shame that someone can't get the styles and samples loaded on the hard drive to work together as I think software based instruments are definitely the way to go for the future (Wersi seem to know what they are doing in this department).
Well done to Dom and Lionstracs for being creative and taking a different approach, but I still think they have a long way to go before they can pull it all off and by the time that happens I can see the big named companies will have overtaken them.

Please remember that this is only MY opinion and everyone has the right to voice one on this forum. I am not having a go at Dom or Lionstracs and would gladly like to see any owner of the Mediastation replying on here as they never seem to do. Do any owners actually exists that visit Synthzone?

[This message has been edited by Craig_UK (edited 02-23-2006).]