I'm new around here and have been thinking about picking up a minimax asb. A friend of mine told me to check out this site so I gave it a nice looking at over the weekend.
I have a couple questions as I've been looking at a lot of reviews on the minimax asb and some seem to point out different issues.
A) I use only Macs here in my studio, intel, and PPC, will the ASB editor work for me?
B) System bugs, have they been worked out yet, if not what is still problematic? I am mostly concerned about 2 things I read in an older SOS review, one about stair stepping in the controls
I was surprised to hear stepping on the oscillator frequency and patch volume controls, but most noticeably on the Amount Of Contour knob in the Filter section"
and the other about envelope decay not adjusting on knob turns until current note decays
C) Does it need a midi to USB interface or does it connect directly to DAW MIDI via its USB connection (I already know no audio is transferred via USB)if you play a note with a long decay/release, and then shorten the time, instead of changing instantly, as on a Minimoogthe note still continues to its original length on the Minimax, the change only becoming apparent when you retrigger the note. All the envelope stages behave in the same way.
D) I've been going back and forth between getting the minimax or the Arturia Minimoog V, I have a lot of hardware and prefer it, but the software is much cheaper. Other than the hardware interface, has anybody used both enough to know if there is really a huge difference? That being said, I like what I hear from the Arturia Minimoog V demo, but do feel it gets pretty thin with the emphasis turned up and of course there is no dedicated control surface.
Any info to the above questions would be much appreciated.