Yes, it is painful, but as you say, rewards your investment of time and tears. I possess 2 Disting Ex’s and a leftover Mark 4. Working on a 14 hp panel to host 2 external displays and mount an Ex on either side. Thanks Robin. Your humor and honesty are refreshing.
At 1:17.00 - heard your weather report! Great vid Robin! I think a lot of people will be helped by this entire video. Definitely encapsulates the fumbles we've all had with the distingEx but provides solutions. Great job!
I was really impressed with your tour of the multisampling. I really want one now, but I’m keeping my Mk4’s as well! I was shouting at the screen a few times… press P press P! And Save it, save it! 😂
Congratulations! I love my Disting EX with the external display and TMB. I drive it with the Five12 Vector sequencer and Cycle Instruments Tetrachords for gobs of polyphonic wonder.
You make me feel a lot better about my soldering🙂, the screen is a must on the EX. I realised after just watching this I also have a Disting MK4 in a case that I had totally forgotten about. Expensive blank!
Dont know if you found this out already but the "K" when you use "help" on an algo stands for the L/R knobs. It will show you what you have assigned to the knobs.
I love the Disting Ex. I combined it with the fh-2 and Cvm-8. I made a few Reaktor Blocks midi controllers for 6 of the algos and they work really well. The Granulator is very deep and sounds really good.The Spectral Freeze is also special.
Had the Disting Ex and Ornament and Crime. I still have the Ornament in my rack, sold the Disting within a week. Of course it's powerful functionality even compared to the O_C, but the usability and menu diving, bloody hell... 😂 But anyway, great analysis, Robin!
Invaluable, thorough, and very much appreciated. If you run out of 1u space, there is a display from Instrument Farm out of Michigan called the Rude Goose that is an OLED Display for the Disting mounted on a gooseneck arm with a magnetic attachment on the base.
Well done sir! That was worth the effort. The autosampling seems easier that the MPC..gr8 feature. I only have the Mk4 which I bought a few weeks ago, and I agree with you that it serves the purpose of one module required at a given time, to set and forget. I would like it to be a looper but it seems I need the Ex for that.
Welcome back from Easter hols! Fab review, you are amazingly patient...I would have given up and used my Emax sampler...Bit bigger to carry round but faster workflow...:-)
The SD card glitch as been killing me for years. The SD multi is the main reason i got the thing, and Ive tried 3 different cards now. Ill see if I can get my hands on one of these Delkins. Os's tech support although not perfect, cant go unnoticed. I dont know how the guy has enough time in the day to work through all this stuff. Kudos.
Yes, it's not easy to work with, but disting give us support for firmware 4 years!!! is a incredible great support and updates compare with other eurorack companies and he always responds for all troubles from the users in every eurorack forum. Yes it's not perfect and tedious but asome modules with great support.
Like 6 years later, and still need to look at the manual whenever I need to switch algorithms on the disting. I'll never sell the 3 I have, but I honestly get the critiques presented here.
I love my Disting ex! I also love Marmite! 🙂 I use it in most probably 98% of my patches! There is so much packed into a small module! I love the multi sampling! Possibility's are endless! 🙂
I recommend copying all of the files from the included uSD card as a backup and to allow convenient browsing of the contents. I needed the backup, when the original card was wrecked after I inserted the card incorrectly into the slot on the module.
I have two Mk IVs, and wouldn’t be without them. I also had that Tasty Chips ECR-1 convolution reverb, which was useful- but it was also 26hp, and not entirely satisfactory as a reverb as it simply wasn’t possible to dial in exactly the response I wanted. Long story short, I sold it, and with most of the proceedings from the sale I bought the EX. To my immense surprise and joy it not only included a convolution reverb as one of its hundred-plus algorithms, but that reverb was everything I had wanted to ECR-1 to be, but wasn’t. So the EX pretty much lives on algorithm 15 atm, and I may have to buy another so that I can explore its other wonders. But imho it is worth the price of entry for the convolution reverb alone- which was the “nutshell” of your video. Stick it on 15 and sell your other reverbs. Oh, and- reading glasses. D’oh.
This module is one of the reasons I'm giving it a rest (maybe giving up for good). Menu diving is one thing - I love the o_C module with two knobs and two buttons but the mk4 was just plain frustrating to navigate. Unless you use it in EVERY patch, you have to relearn how to go through the menu. I'm sure others don't mind this but it really got to me. I tried, really I did!
The Disting principle: You must have one in every portable case because you WILL need one of the programs at some point…and when you do, it will be a life saver. It will also require you reading the manual on the spot to remember that it actually does that thing that you need and to remember how to make it do what you need it to do. But it will save you. Any you will be thankful. And that’s why I have 12 of them. Love? Hate? All is fair in loaves and war. 😂
Wait it's STREAMING the sample off the card every time it plays a sample?? Then what is it doing when you "load" a multisample? You can see those status bars, what are they doing? I assumed it was loading the samples into internal memory. What IS is doing?
Nice review thanks! Don't you also have the Rample which can do this too? It would be good to see a comparison for the two on how they compare as multi sample playback voices.
Disting Ex has mad flexible MIDI mapping also - and I've just discovered Performer in Live 12! Now to set up a customized (and simplified) template with mapping curves to accentuate (or manufacture) some extended sweet spots (sorry - over used I know but it's actually appropriate here) inside Rings and the Dream Machine.
I’ve spent all DAY trying to get the multi sample recording to work. Even though I HAD it working before. I previously sample the Dreadbox Typhon. BUT I only seemed to manage this after going through a CME WIDI 6 box AND my Digitone! Thus after disassembling all the cables and combing back to sample my Taiga - after seeing your success - I’ve had no luck whatsoever. Tried everything in the BOOK. What a frustration. Don’t seem to be able to send MIDI but seems my Disting can receive MIDI. What a palaver. Read in this thread about the TRS dongle thing and it might be this. But Jesus talk about putting me off the Disting. All. Day. Long. 😡 But have enjoyed tape delay and some other uses so far. As well as the fact I DID have mutisample sampling working before 😢
You might have noticed that some of the multisamples are different gain levels :) The soft piano is so nice but I have had to save a preset where it doesn't clip (as it's doing here). Also either using some sort of attenuation or the note range you needn't play every octave in ARP mode...
Reading from the SD card gets more awkward with samples that are transposed too far (up). You can limit the transposition range and this helps. Modwiggler has a thread on SD cards. I found the bog standard Sandisk 64GB Ultra works fine on high speed mode. Couldn't get one of the Delkins, but this one works ok.
This sums up my experience with the Disting Es-9 and midi break out. Yes they are awesome. Would I like someone to come to my house and set everything up for me the way I want it without waiting hours of my life? Yes.
I bought a secondhand MK4 Disting rec, and I'm almost at that 'take it out of the rack and sack it off' stage...but I won't sell it, I know it'll always come in useful. I'm mainly using it for the effects section, but I was debating an Erica Synths Pico DSP instead. I know I'll come back to it at some point when I need that particular 'thing' that I haven't got
Would be nice if Expert Sleepers included process flow diagrams for the menu systems in the manuals for their modules. Perhaps it would save a lot of people a lot of hours of fury and frustration.
I'm exactly in the same spot. Except I have yet to seriously use the thing. My eyes last about one glance at this little screen, then the frustration comes out. Where did you get the instruction manual?I purchased a screen kit and it came without instructions. I'm not shy about soldering, but soldering A to B would be far more successful than random chance!!! Yes it ties your shoelaces together ... but it also gives you one hell of a wedgie.
@@MoltenMusicTech I think so. It's not a sound maker. It's a USB MIDI host, 4 track melodic plus drum sequencer, clocks, LFOs, shift registers and more. It's a USB device as well as a host. You can connect multiple USB MIDI controllers. On it's own it has 8 CV\Gate outputs, but you can connect expansions for up to 64 CV\Gate outputs and 64 Gate outputs. So that's up to 64 LFOs. It's the same size as the Disting EX with the same screen. It's got a similar menu system to the EX, so you know what to expect. Like the Disting it has a web interface. To use the sequencer properly you really need a Launchpad. It fully takes over the Launchpad hardware and integrates it. There's so much in it i don't have space to go over it, but soon as I saw it I had to get one. I got a Gate expansion too, so i have 8 Gates\clocks\triggers and 8 CV\lfo\EG\Gate\clock\trig. I'm not a DAWless only type. If there's a tool that helps me (other than AI) I'll use it, and in conjunction with a pc\mac midi sequencer\DAW, you can do amazing stuff as well. You've cut your teeth with the Disting menus - now have a play with the FH-2. God, I sound like a shill 🤔, but I'm surprised that there's not more love for this module. I guess it's due to the decidedly NOT knob per function 😱 Cheers ✌️
Disting mk4 is killer. Bought it as a cheaper smaller alternative than a 4ms record. Usually it takes all of 30 seconds to understand each algo. Best to memorise a key set of 6 or so most useful to you, and dip into whatever else if needed.
The whole TRS-A vs TRS-B midi dongle thing... I use these short female to male TRS adapters to switch the ring and tip. Changes an "A" to a "B" or "B" to "A", with one additional thing! You can also connect TRS A and B devices with this adapter and a single TRS cord, instead of 2 adapters and a DIN cable. Always seemed stupid to adapt to a different connector and then back again.
I’m having a nightmare time trying to get the Disting to send midi to anything. I think it may be the TRS issue. Despite my ability to trigger my synths no problem from SQ-64 I cannot trigger them from the Disting. It’s a pain in the head.
I've had some kind of Disting in my small system since they came out, now an EX. It's too powerful of module not to have. Yes it's not very FUN to use but man.. a Swiss Army Knife of modules I can't imagine not having.
Struggling to get along with mine. Had it almost a year. Used it exactly twice. My eyes struggle to read the screen, and I needed to buy a tablet just to read the manual...
As with most men, reading a manual is the very last thing I want to do. Plug and play and intuative use is the required norm. When I got my Disting I printed out the menu and tried to work my way through it. I gave up as my memory is not what it was and getting the manual out every time was such a faf. The screen you talked about would be a boon. Can it be used with the Disting MK4?
I have my moments with the Disting EX, but then again I also have my moments with modules in which I have to press combinations of buttons that I never remember (example: the Morphagene). 😀
I sold my morphagene partly for this reason. Different button combos to record to splice, switch reels, ugh. Listening back to some recordings I made with it, it really encouraged me to make interesting musical choices and have fun with it, whereas the bitbox micro interface makes sense but I hardly ever use it. Meanwhile, the button+knob business on my Stages with alt firmware are easy for me to remember. Just two to remember.
I'm torn on it. It contains a lot of modules I don't have as dedicated modules and that's great. But oh man, the knobs and buttons: It is indeed the menu system of Satan. I've got a Blofeld and they have a reputation as being a bit menu-divey but compared to the Disting Ex it's knob-per-function.
The Disting interfaces have always been their poor spot in my mind. I have a mk4 and had an mk3, and soooo rarely use them because they are just... tricky.
Why should anything that any of us attempt to achieve be gauged by a certain level of instant gratification! The possible transience and ultimate negation of our efforts applies no less to modular synthesis then it does to the simple act of breathing. Although, check them RGB jacks! That's polarity for you...
I'd rather the choices were "Whole" and "Split" modes. Single vs. Dual modes always felt backwards to me. I want "dual" to mean both sides combined and "single" should mean the sides are operating singly.
Never heard you moan so much, even with other complex modules like the Neo Trinity - you need some Disting councelling to deal with your PTSD. This is an incredible module that just requires a bit of patience and a bit of reading the manual. You get used to the interface after a short while just like any deep module. There are so many algorithms in the EX that are worth the cost of the module on their own. Os introduces new algorithms regularly - on a scale that no other manufacturer does. We ought to be grateful and just get through the learning process. Complaining about it seems churlish. Personally I'm deeply grateful for all his work on this incredible module.
Or, hear me out, maybe other people don’t want to and simply don’t like the module. I, for one, am grateful Robin moans when he doesn’t like things about modules. It is his opinion, as yours is yours.
@@PWMaarten It's important to call things out when you review them, for sure. No problem with pointing out weaknesses and awkward menu systems in an even-handed way. My problem was the first half hour of negativity which seems to be singled out for the Disting rather than other complex modules he has reviewed. If you're watching this with a view to buy or not, which a lot of people do, then Robin's opinion carries a lot more weight than mine. The negativity was light-hearted to an extent, but also fairly unremitting at the start of the video and if you make a decision on not buying due to this before getting to the bits an hour in when he sees the potential in the multi-sampler then not only have you missed out on something potentially fantastic for your rack, but someone's sales and livelihood have been hit. If the module is actually rubbish then fair enough, it's a service to stop people buying it, but if it's awesome with user interface flaws then it needs a more even-handed approach in the crucial first minutes of a video (and the thumbnail).
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Yes, it is painful, but as you say, rewards your investment of time and tears. I possess 2 Disting Ex’s and a leftover Mark 4. Working on a 14 hp panel to host 2 external displays and mount an Ex on either side. Thanks Robin. Your humor and honesty are refreshing.
At 1:17.00 - heard your weather report! Great vid Robin! I think a lot of people will be helped by this entire video. Definitely encapsulates the fumbles we've all had with the distingEx but provides solutions. Great job!
I was really impressed with your tour of the multisampling. I really want one now, but I’m keeping my Mk4’s as well!
I was shouting at the screen a few times… press P press P! And Save it, save it! 😂
Congratulations! I love my Disting EX with the external display and TMB. I drive it with the Five12 Vector sequencer and Cycle Instruments Tetrachords for gobs of polyphonic wonder.
You make me feel a lot better about my soldering🙂, the screen is a must on the EX. I realised after just watching this I also have a Disting MK4 in a case that I had totally forgotten about. Expensive blank!
Thanks Robin, I have two EX's and your findings and fumbling both consoled and ah-ha'd me. The mind boggles at all that in 8HP.
Dont know if you found this out already but the "K" when you use "help" on an algo stands for the L/R knobs. It will show you what you have assigned to the knobs.
Thank you Robin Vincent and God bless all that you do! We are blessed to be.
I love the Disting Ex. I combined it with the fh-2 and Cvm-8. I made a few Reaktor Blocks midi controllers for 6 of the algos and they work really well. The Granulator is very deep and sounds really good.The Spectral Freeze is also special.
Had the Disting Ex and Ornament and Crime. I still have the Ornament in my rack, sold the Disting within a week. Of course it's powerful functionality even compared to the O_C, but the usability and menu diving, bloody hell... 😂 But anyway, great analysis, Robin!
Do you use hemispheres?
Invaluable, thorough, and very much appreciated. If you run out of 1u space, there is a display from Instrument Farm out of Michigan called the Rude Goose that is an OLED Display for the Disting mounted on a gooseneck arm with a magnetic attachment on the base.
Ha, magnificent
Well done sir! That was worth the effort. The autosampling seems easier that the MPC..gr8 feature. I only have the Mk4 which I bought a few weeks ago, and I agree with you that it serves the purpose of one module required at a given time, to set and forget. I would like it to be a looper but it seems I need the Ex for that.
Welcome back from Easter hols! Fab review, you are amazingly patient...I would have given up and used my Emax sampler...Bit bigger to carry round but faster workflow...:-)
The fiddling with knobs to turn the second diplay on sums up the Disting experience for me. Love it, hate it even more.
The SD card glitch as been killing me for years. The SD multi is the main reason i got the thing, and Ive tried 3 different cards now. Ill see if I can get my hands on one of these Delkins. Os's tech support although not perfect, cant go unnoticed. I dont know how the guy has enough time in the day to work through all this stuff. Kudos.
Delkins should take care of it. Also, I only have that issue when using it with CV or MIDI. With i2c it's never a problem. Strange to say the least!
I got a couple of Delkins from Amazon, so you shouldn't have a problem getting hold of one.
Happy Sampling!
Cheers ✌️
Yes, it's not easy to work with, but disting give us support for firmware 4 years!!! is a incredible great support and updates compare with other eurorack companies and he always responds for all troubles from the users in every eurorack forum. Yes it's not perfect and tedious but asome modules with great support.
This is why I'm not a fan of DSP modules. Menu diving on a tiny screen. Kudos Robin for the unbiased video.
Like 6 years later, and still need to look at the manual whenever I need to switch algorithms on the disting. I'll never sell the 3 I have, but I honestly get the critiques presented here.
I love my Disting ex! I also love Marmite! 🙂 I use it in most probably 98% of my patches! There is so much packed into a small module! I love the multi sampling! Possibility's are endless! 🙂
I recommend copying all of the files from the included uSD card as a backup and to allow convenient browsing of the contents. I needed the backup, when the original card was wrecked after I inserted the card incorrectly into the slot on the module.
I have two Mk IVs, and wouldn’t be without them. I also had that Tasty Chips ECR-1 convolution reverb, which was useful- but it was also 26hp, and not entirely satisfactory as a reverb as it simply wasn’t possible to dial in exactly the response I wanted. Long story short, I sold it, and with most of the proceedings from the sale I bought the EX. To my immense surprise and joy it not only included a convolution reverb as one of its hundred-plus algorithms, but that reverb was everything I had wanted to ECR-1 to be, but wasn’t.
So the EX pretty much lives on algorithm 15 atm, and I may have to buy another so that I can explore its other wonders. But imho it is worth the price of entry for the convolution reverb alone- which was the “nutshell” of your video. Stick it on 15 and sell your other reverbs. Oh, and- reading glasses. D’oh.
Doesn't the short impulse time bother you?
@@GeorgeLockeNot really. I can get it up to 5s plus by sacrificing some quality, but for most applications 1 or 2s is fine.
Save preset. Save preset! SAVE PRESET!! Great video as always mate. It's worth the battle. Did I hear someone say DX7ll?
This module is one of the reasons I'm giving it a rest (maybe giving up for good). Menu diving is one thing - I love the o_C module with two knobs and two buttons but the mk4 was just plain frustrating to navigate. Unless you use it in EVERY patch, you have to relearn how to go through the menu. I'm sure others don't mind this but it really got to me. I tried, really I did!
The Disting principle: You must have one in every portable case because you WILL need one of the programs at some point…and when you do, it will be a life saver. It will also require you reading the manual on the spot to remember that it actually does that thing that you need and to remember how to make it do what you need it to do. But it will save you. Any you will be thankful. And that’s why I have 12 of them. Love? Hate? All is fair in loaves and war. 😂
Reckon your original analogy is spot on. A "Gateway drug" to be sure. Turing machine and oscilloscope. Crazy. Who thinks of these things?
Wait it's STREAMING the sample off the card every time it plays a sample??
Then what is it doing when you "load" a multisample? You can see those status bars, what are they doing? I assumed it was loading the samples into internal memory. What IS is doing?
I think most samplers use a combination of RAM and disk streaming and constantly shuffle from one to another - Kontakt is the same.
Nice review thanks! Don't you also have the Rample which can do this too? It would be good to see a comparison for the two on how they compare as multi sample playback voices.
I do not have a Rample, sorry
The ramble can’t do polyphonic sampling. If yes please make a video 🙏
Even before we get any bloody sound out of dis' thing. So funny.
Disting Ex has mad flexible MIDI mapping also - and I've just discovered Performer in Live 12! Now to set up a customized (and simplified) template with mapping curves to accentuate (or manufacture) some extended sweet spots (sorry - over used I know but it's actually appropriate here) inside Rings and the Dream Machine.
Totally dig the SimCity 2000 reference of "reticulating splines" 😎 @1:06:56
I’ve spent all DAY trying to get the multi sample recording to work. Even though I HAD it working before. I previously sample the Dreadbox Typhon. BUT I only seemed to manage this after going through a CME WIDI 6 box AND my Digitone! Thus after disassembling all the cables and combing back to sample my Taiga - after seeing your success - I’ve had no luck whatsoever. Tried everything in the BOOK. What a frustration. Don’t seem to be able to send MIDI but seems my Disting can receive MIDI. What a palaver. Read in this thread about the TRS dongle thing and it might be this. But Jesus talk about putting me off the Disting. All. Day. Long. 😡 But have enjoyed tape delay and some other uses so far. As well as the fact I DID have mutisample sampling working before 😢
You might have noticed that some of the multisamples are different gain levels :)
The soft piano is so nice but I have had to save a preset where it doesn't clip (as it's doing here).
Also either using some sort of attenuation or the note range you needn't play every octave in ARP mode...
Reading from the SD card gets more awkward with samples that are transposed too far (up). You can limit the transposition range and this helps. Modwiggler has a thread on SD cards. I found the bog standard Sandisk 64GB Ultra works fine on high speed mode. Couldn't get one of the Delkins, but this one works ok.
This sums up my experience with the Disting Es-9 and midi break out. Yes they are awesome. Would I like someone to come to my house and set everything up for me the way I want it without waiting hours of my life? Yes.
I bought a secondhand MK4 Disting rec, and I'm almost at that 'take it out of the rack and sack it off' stage...but I won't sell it, I know it'll always come in useful. I'm mainly using it for the effects section, but I was debating an Erica Synths Pico DSP instead. I know I'll come back to it at some point when I need that particular 'thing' that I haven't got
Would be nice if Expert Sleepers included process flow diagrams for the menu systems in the manuals for their modules. Perhaps it would save a lot of people a lot of hours of fury and frustration.
I'm exactly in the same spot. Except I have yet to seriously use the thing. My eyes last about one glance at this little screen, then the frustration comes out. Where did you get the instruction manual?I purchased a screen kit and it came without instructions. I'm not shy about soldering, but soldering A to B would be far more successful than random chance!!!
Yes it ties your shoelaces together ... but it also gives you one hell of a wedgie.
Hey Robin. When are you going to do a video on the Expert Sleepers FH-2?
Don’t know. Is it an exciting thing?
@@MoltenMusicTech I think so. It's not a sound maker. It's a USB MIDI host, 4 track melodic plus drum sequencer, clocks, LFOs, shift registers and more. It's a USB device as well as a host. You can connect multiple USB MIDI controllers.
On it's own it has 8 CV\Gate outputs, but you can connect expansions for up to 64 CV\Gate outputs and 64 Gate outputs. So that's up to 64 LFOs.
It's the same size as the Disting EX with the same screen.
It's got a similar menu system to the EX, so you know what to expect.
Like the Disting it has a web interface.
To use the sequencer properly you really need a Launchpad. It fully takes over the Launchpad hardware and integrates it.
There's so much in it i don't have space to go over it, but soon as I saw it I had to get one. I got a Gate expansion too, so i have 8 Gates\clocks\triggers and 8 CV\lfo\EG\Gate\clock\trig.
I'm not a DAWless only type. If there's a tool that helps me (other than AI) I'll use it, and in conjunction with a pc\mac midi sequencer\DAW, you can do amazing stuff as well.
You've cut your teeth with the Disting menus - now have a play with the FH-2.
God, I sound like a shill 🤔, but I'm surprised that there's not more love for this module. I guess it's due to the decidedly NOT knob per function 😱
Cheers ✌️
Disting mk4 is killer. Bought it as a cheaper smaller alternative than a 4ms record.
Usually it takes all of 30 seconds to understand each algo. Best to memorise a key set of 6 or so most useful to you, and dip into whatever else if needed.
Totally agree on the sd card problem: it's not ok. Expert Sleepers isn't an exception on this issue.
The Abstract Data Octocontroller is probably as close as you could get to a disting without a menu.
The whole TRS-A vs TRS-B midi dongle thing... I use these short female to male TRS adapters to switch the ring and tip. Changes an "A" to a "B" or "B" to "A", with one additional thing! You can also connect TRS A and B devices with this adapter and a single TRS cord, instead of 2 adapters and a DIN cable. Always seemed stupid to adapt to a different connector and then back again.
I’m having a nightmare time trying to get the Disting to send midi to anything. I think it may be the TRS issue. Despite my ability to trigger my synths no problem from SQ-64 I cannot trigger them from the Disting. It’s a pain in the head.
I've had some kind of Disting in my small system since they came out, now an EX. It's too powerful of module not to have. Yes it's not very FUN to use but man.. a Swiss Army Knife of modules I can't imagine not having.
Breaking News! Apocalypse triggered over frustration with precision adder. Duck and cover! 😂
Struggling to get along with mine. Had it almost a year. Used it exactly twice. My eyes struggle to read the screen, and I needed to buy a tablet just to read the manual...
i have sampled reface cp. It is nice have a velocy reponsive e-pianos in your eurorack.
As with most men, reading a manual is the very last thing I want to do. Plug and play and intuative use is the required norm. When I got my Disting I printed out the menu and tried to work my way through it. I gave up as my memory is not what it was and getting the manual out every time was such a faf. The screen you talked about would be a boon. Can it be used with the Disting MK4?
I don't believe the Mk4 supports a screen, sorry.
I have my moments with the Disting EX, but then again I also have my moments with modules in which I have to press combinations of buttons that I never remember (example: the Morphagene). 😀
I sold my morphagene partly for this reason. Different button combos to record to splice, switch reels, ugh. Listening back to some recordings I made with it, it really encouraged me to make interesting musical choices and have fun with it, whereas the bitbox micro interface makes sense but I hardly ever use it.
Meanwhile, the button+knob business on my Stages with alt firmware are easy for me to remember. Just two to remember.
There's a rooster somewhere right?
I'm torn on it. It contains a lot of modules I don't have as dedicated modules and that's great. But oh man, the knobs and buttons: It is indeed the menu system of Satan. I've got a Blofeld and they have a reputation as being a bit menu-divey but compared to the Disting Ex it's knob-per-function.
The Disting interfaces have always been their poor spot in my mind. I have a mk4 and had an mk3, and soooo rarely use them because they are just... tricky.
The screen is nice but If you do not have 1U line in your case you are screwed... any solution to add the screen in a 3U row?
Use some pegs
There’s someone out there selling an adapter for 3U maybe on Etsy.
Why should anything that any of us attempt to achieve be gauged by a certain level of instant gratification! The possible transience and ultimate negation of our efforts applies no less to modular synthesis then it does to the simple act of breathing.
Although, check them RGB jacks! That's polarity for you...
No kick the doggie ❤
I'd rather the choices were "Whole" and "Split" modes.
Single vs. Dual modes always felt backwards to me. I want "dual" to mean both sides combined and "single" should mean the sides are operating singly.
Yeah, I feel that too.
Never heard you moan so much, even with other complex modules like the Neo Trinity - you need some Disting councelling to deal with your PTSD. This is an incredible module that just requires a bit of patience and a bit of reading the manual. You get used to the interface after a short while just like any deep module. There are so many algorithms in the EX that are worth the cost of the module on their own. Os introduces new algorithms regularly - on a scale that no other manufacturer does. We ought to be grateful and just get through the learning process. Complaining about it seems churlish. Personally I'm deeply grateful for all his work on this incredible module.
Or, hear me out, maybe other people don’t want to and simply don’t like the module. I, for one, am grateful Robin moans when he doesn’t like things about modules. It is his opinion, as yours is yours.
@@PWMaarten It's important to call things out when you review them, for sure. No problem with pointing out weaknesses and awkward menu systems in an even-handed way. My problem was the first half hour of negativity which seems to be singled out for the Disting rather than other complex modules he has reviewed. If you're watching this with a view to buy or not, which a lot of people do, then Robin's opinion carries a lot more weight than mine. The negativity was light-hearted to an extent, but also fairly unremitting at the start of the video and if you make a decision on not buying due to this before getting to the bits an hour in when he sees the potential in the multi-sampler then not only have you missed out on something potentially fantastic for your rack, but someone's sales and livelihood have been hit. If the module is actually rubbish then fair enough, it's a service to stop people buying it, but if it's awesome with user interface flaws then it needs a more even-handed approach in the crucial first minutes of a video (and the thumbnail).
When pushing V, I think "K" is for Knob
Still think Ornament and Crime with hemisphere firmware is better overall even if it doesn't do as much
they are both awesome, ornament doesnt do audio disting does so they can live happily together
two different modules in purpose... 🙂
Unpopular opinion perhaps, but Disting seems very non-modular to me and like not a lot of fun to play with.
Burn it,,no its ok,,no burn it,,no no,,its ok...lol I know what you mean.
Too complicated