Registered: 09/19/08
Posts: 1264
Loc: United Kingdom
1. Pop 1
it was ok. Dont know what effect Magic Alfa had on the rythm guitar but it didnt sound right to me but thats just personal taste. It was a solid basic style but clearly a home made style (and i mean no disrespect to Magic)
2.Style funky
Liked the accoustic guitar initially. The style is fine but a couple of the chord changes showed that the wrong NTT had been used. Listen to bass line move in the style. This was a good start and a basic style but i liked it but again , not a yamaha or korg killer and I did not expect it to be . However these two styles could have been made on practically any arranger and sounded just as good.
3. House style
This one was my favourite . I can tell Magic had a ball putting it together. sounded great and was well balnaced but i doubt you could play this style with more than two chords. This is a great example of the Qranger (correct me if i am wrong Magic) however its patchwork music. Cutting and pasting grooves from a sound library into a pattern . cant play complex chiors with it . Same problem with the Audy. it is just a step up from plugging in an ipod and making your own mix tape (now i am showing my age) :-)
These are good user demos and Magic is clearly having fun with his instrument and i cant and wont knock that. all i would say is that all the tools, features and gimmicks that are being stuffed into the MS simply underline the point that what it really needs is goods styles and there is no running away from it.