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AllegroIMG/PRODUCENCI/CREATIVE/Sound%20Blaster%20X-Fi%205.1%20Pro/a.jpg' alt='Creative Surround Mixer 2.0' title='Creative Surround Mixer 2.0' />Lexicon MX4. Dual StereoSurround Reverb Effects Processor. BAD POINTS One of the main reasons for buying the MX4. MX3. 00 over the MX2. MX2. 00s is for more parameters to adjust for each effect, rather than just the three the MX2. To my shock, those extra parameters only show up when youre running just a single effect in one of the engines. Freesound collaborative database of creativecommons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound todayIf you become a member you can see your online prices and complete orders through the website. You can request your membership by completing the application form. The manuals list of Synti Groep Below you find a full summary of all the owners manuals, service manuals, schematics and other documentation we have available of. Passwird Deals Scours The Web For The Hottest Online Deals Updated Throughout The Day Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. As soon as you dial in a routing setup that uses two effects at once, all those in depth effects parameters disappear and youre bumped down to the same three per effect as in the MX2. So if you want to run all four effects at once, the MX4. MX2. 00s under one roof, but without the MX2. If you want the extra effects features and parameters, youll have to limit yourself to just two effects total on the MX4. This is unacceptable and totally deceptive and of course not mentioned in the manual. Not why I bought the MX4. Adding to the above, the reduced set of parameters per effect also means missing functionality even when its using the same knob. For example the phaser and flanger lose their ability to do negative feedback, the phaser rate gets limited to a slower rate not even fast enough to do opening to Gary Numans Cars, cant select number of phaser stages, two voice pitch shifter becomes one voice and loses its feedback delay, etc. The MX4. 00 manual lists Arena and Studio reverbs, but they arent available when running a single effect in an engine. They only appear in the menu when changing to a dual effect routing. Just the opposite for the 2 Tap Delay, which disappears altogether when running a dual effect routing. Beyerdynamic/Beyerdynamic%20HBP%201%20v2.0.jpg' alt='Creative Surround Mixer 2.0 Download' title='Creative Surround Mixer 2.0 Download' />A written manual is supposed to tell the user everything about a piece of gear. Not so with the brief MX4. Lexicons manuals have been going downhill with every new series they release. For instance, the Chorus can be set to 9. But its not really a 9. So how many voices is it The manual wont tell you. Had to look back to the MX2. MX4. 00 probably can go to 8 voices. How are those voices positioned in the stereo field and are they in some kind of phase with each other or free running Even the MX2. I had to go back to the MPX1. MPX5. 00 manual to find out. Does the pitch shifter detect pitch and want only a monophonic input Had to go back to the MPX1. How many stages is the phase shifter when in reduced MX2. Had to do a side by side listening test between MX4. MX2. 00 to find out appears to be 8 stage. Can patches be named on the MX4. PC editor I had to buy the unit to find out because the manual wouldnt tell me. EFFECTS GOOD BAD Flanger Unlike everybody else, Lexicon provides through zero flanging or a simulation of it and also negative and positive feedback. Growing up on Tomita, this is what I want. However, if you dont want that climax and near sound canceling result, it doesnt seem like you can get away from it. There is no manual parameter for setting the center freq and no way of stopping the sweep altogether and using it as a fixed comb filter or resonator. Phaser Also provides negative feedback as well as positive which is rare and can be set to 4,8,1. Pitch shifter Faster response time than older MPX1. Held mic up to youtube video for some solo instruments playing and it sounded halfway decent until orchestra came in, so I thought maybe it was detecting pitch. But after plugging in a synth and running clean tones through it, it sounds lousy on some monophonic notes. So far TC Electronics and Lexicon have the worst sounding pitch shifters of any gear I own. Roland and Behringer do better in this department, though they all are somewhat lousy. When the delayfeedback option is available, you can create rising or falling pitch shifted sounds. Unfortunately Lexicon didnt give enough feedback amount, and the sound dies off too soon. The older MPX1. 005. IIRC. Delays There are a number of them and with something like the Tape Delay, I was hoping that one could rotate the delay time knob and speed up and slow down the delay like on a real tape or analog delay. You can, but it introduces glitches or bad artifacts making it useless for that kind of thing. I have a lot of free VST plugins that can do that just fine. As owner of a Lexicon PCM 4. I was hoping the Modulation Delay would allow all kinds of extreme stuff like massive sweeps or square wave modulation, but no. The mod amount knob only gives a mild chorusing sound to a delay. QUAD UNIT or just DUAL STEREO The MX4. One engine has no clue the other one exists. That means you cant use all 4 effects on one stereo inputoutput. Youll need to duplicate inputs and mix outputs, or if you want to run 4 effects in series, youll need to plug MX4. Patches dont save all 4 effects at once, you have to load each half separately. Seeing how the surround reverb can use just 2 inputs and output to 4, it seems like had Lexicon not been lazy, this could have been a more flexible stereo unit utilizing 4 effects at once. The surround capability almost seems like its there just because they could. There is just one hall algorithm and nothing else. Even just a quad panning effect would have been nice. Would like to have seen a global LFO on this unit for modulation effects in sync. Serial Kontakt Factory Library. FINAL So the MX4. I wish companies would put more pride and thought into their products rather than just repackaging the same old effects into new products with little attention to detail. If youre looking for a good dual reverb unit that does most of your standard effects although no EQ, the MX4. If youre looking for a powerful and creative effects unit that can create some really strange and original sounds, then this is not it.