Boom Shakthi

You don't have to apologize. This product is a fail and I don't recommend it to anyone, except at a little price (300€ max). In my version (2.2), defaults have been fixed, except the software wich is working bad both on mac an pc. Hopefully, most of the parameters can be assigned by control change. Enjoy your MB-6582, it's so much better.

I cant' say that the build quality is poor, but for sure the software never works properly, even if they've tried to make several updates since. So I have created a max for live patch, wich is not the perfect solution, but it works much better than their software.

I finaly get it back two days ago. They gave me a tshirt, a flight case and another c64 chipset for apologies. So I could say they have been pretty commercial. The os version I have is 2.2. All is working well except the software... I use a simple usb midi cable, maybe this is the reason why, I will try later with a sound card.

Hello Peter, You're right! Unfortunately this is where I'm heading to. The fact they keep on selling it on different stores is just crazy. If I get my money back, I'll try to get a REAL one ;)

Hello everyone, this is my first post here, and with good cause I'm not good enough to built these kind of machine on my own. I just want to tell my misfortune with mode machines, especially with their sid groovebox. I'm not a kind of guy who is yelling for nothing, but they are fooling me for nearly four months. Their behaviour is just a shame. Before reading, I beg your pardon for my pretty bad english: So, I bought last june a sid and there was different problems. -The headphones output was useless, with a lot of noisy sparkles. -The software was unstable, I couldn't do anything with it. -With an external midi keyboard, the last note I played kept on sounding as if there was a "hold" function that doesn't exist both on the sid and my keyboard. I have emailed mode machines, not only for repair but also for upgrade, because I owned a real c64's chipset and I wanted them to replace the original swinsid. At the begining (mid july) Michael Thorpe told me that there was just an "smt part to change on the circuit board", and it would be repaired and upgrade in two weeks. But then he spoke about a new os version, wich obviously doesn't work yet... Now, He answers to my emails from time to time, just to tell me that the os is almost ready or ready, it depends of his mood. I've tried to be refund twice, but each time he passes over the question. It means they are selling a product which is not operational, and they are not abble to fix the many bugs it has... At this time, I don't know if someday I'll get the sid (and the chipstet) or my money back. It's just a nonsense.