Speeddemon said:
...BTW, Pundit, can you give some info/opinions about your TC M-One XL? I'm especially curious how it would stack up against the Lexicon MPX500 or MPX550.
I've compared it to the MXP100 and
MPX200 and there was NO comparison. M-ONE... hands down!! Okay so these are the low end Lexicons after all! Personally I think the cheaper Lexicons are a bit overated... still it's a matter of personal choice. Now as far as the MPX500 is concerned I have a bunch of MPX500 impulse files I use with Sonic Foundry's Acoustic Mirror, and in comparison I generally still prefer the M-One XL. Although within the PC environment I generally use The T.C. M3000 impulse files I also have. The only other verbs I have access to that I would say are an improvement, and of course this is still subjective, are the T.C. M3000 and Quantec Yardstick impulses.
I actually only bought the M-One as a monitering reverb, to replace my ancient Alesis Midiverb II (yuk!), and for some occassional live use. But I do like it. I may experiment with it and see if it's worth editing and saving some of the verbs as impulses to use in my PC. It has digital I/O so I can sample anything I like.
The other advantage with the M-One's dual engines is that you can assign them both for processing different verbs simultaneously. Quite a few of the lower end dual engine FX processors dedicate one engine to multifx ONLY and the other to the verbs.
Sure Lexicon stuff has had the 'name' for years, but I think T.C. has almost shaken them off that mantle. Look at the big end of town and see what's being used more and more by the big boys... T.C. M6000 etc.
I think the Lexicon stuff doesn't begin to get serious until
the PCM91 etc.
I'd be surprised if you were disappointed with
the M-One XL... especially for the dollars.
Cheers pundit.
