will do! because of the move to the ramsa, my recording structure is all fubar'd, plus a lack of cables (woah look at all those rcas), will try to do it this week some time.
in terms of the andy, i don't really program it much. it is hard! there are monos that i enjoy more. but i do a lot of tweaking. i usually don't save or write down what I did so
tutt my songs are not much better then the demos in terms of what I've recorded. very simply (ashamed).
I do use it more as a workstation, just jamming out. the mix mode is great! i did do the donna summer i feel love bit this weekend. I'm not quite accomplished enough to play the whole song but i'll see if i can post a key bar or two. what i like about the andy is how well thought out it is! each mix mode can have 16 patches (assuming one voice per patch, not always the case mind you). and each patch can have it's own sequence! and layered/split as needed. so, for the donna summer patch, i have the lowest note as kick/clap (andy snares are weak. i tried to program my own but it is beyond my ability for now.). the next note is kick/clap/hat. then the next octave is the bass run--two patches layered, one for left and one for right. so the left hand drives the kick/bass line. then the right--well, the higher octaves are a string, representing donna summer herself (abliet poorly). one could layer on a choir under the string, maybe i will in the future. or some kind of synth line
all this is fed into the ramsa. the andy has voice outs, but uses a stereo configuration--I don't have stereo to mono cables. so i am using main (l/r) and aux (l/r).
the patch bay is for hooking up all my synths. a drum machine will have 10 outs. the andy has 16. right there is 26. I wish I knew if the ramsa board was inline or not. looks like tape or line in, not both (although) i can squish both buttons down together, I assume it is not meant for that.
the andy has a chord mode, which is really useful for trance runs. press and hold the chord button, then press your chord squence, one key at a time. release the chord button, now you have chords on a key! very handy for jamming out, though the chord math isn't smart--so if you have crazy chords, I think it just does +1/-1 transposition, meaning every now and then you'll wince as it doesn't progress like you would. what's nice is now this frees your hands for chords that require two hands, so that you can manipulate release/sustain for real time performance, or tweak the ramsa so you can hear the kick drum again
you can also program polyphonic voice to have its sequence triggered per key. so a triad of three keys, not pressed as a chord, but quickly as an arp, can each have its own sequence running. this gives a very nice trance effect, esp with 3 bass notes + one high.
another favorite trick of mine is to unison! take a bass, turn on unison -- two voices. bam, instant BASS. take a string, turn on unison, unison to 8 voices with massive detune. INSTANT HARD CORE.
as a jamming keyboard it is a lot of fun. programing in drums, basslines, then a few splits on the upper ranges. nothing i'd record or document, but...because it's polyphonic, you can change patches and it will continue to play the previous patch on the held keys (in some cases). this is nice when you find a nice drone in single patch mode, and then change to a nice string, and now you can jam out to your drone without stopping to create a special multi-timbural patch.
a final thought and then i'll stop gushing. the mix mode is the magic. since you can layer patches, and each patch can have its own sequence, and the sequence can be tied to not just a bar in length, but multiple bars, and modulate parameters, with gate times from 2ms to 10 seconds, you can get CRAZY out of space evolving pads etc. the ramsa mids, so far, have loved the andy mids--steely you will like it. do give it some time though, there is quite a bit of wtf do i do now once it first shows up! the envelopes have crazy options, 2 decays / 2 releases x pitch/filter/amp (plus modulations) and different envelope algos per point (linear, curved, etc etc) means you can really get some strange stuff and then foop! no sound at all.