Only wish my Chord Sequencer thread got the same legs, guess I'll just have to insult somebody (Donny, you up for it??!!)
As to the T2 SA voices thing, I got to say (as a horn player myself) the T2 is the ONLY thing I have ever heard that can play a true legato phrase, period. WX7 - nice phrasing capabilities, bad tone....... G70, nice tone, bad phrasing..... MotifES, nah...... Triton, nah..... Kurzweil, nah....... NONE of them have the capability to differentiate between legato and detached playing, A real sax tongues in phrases, not notes.
Donny, if you can't hear this, you just got to start playing with some real horn players, and look at them when you take a sax solo........ if you still had your T2, you'd see worry, not contempt (not with your playing, just the sound...)
Fran, you've got to get off your high horse. As a G70 user and fan, even I can admit that there are some things in the T2 I like. Not enough to buy one, but I am jealous of the SA sax. I imagine that somewhere, some place, there's a T2 owner who might like a Chord Sequencer from the G1000, or the GrandX from the G70, but like you, they are probably to proud to admit it.
Me, I don't mind admitting that because no-one make the perfect arranger, there are things from other's arrangers I wouldn't mind having, just not at the cost of losing what I prefer from my own.........
If only we would stop defending our arranger's honor, and start admitting what we like from other manufacturer's features, maybe our manufacturer would take notice and implement them, instead of just patting themselves on the back for making what everyone says must be the perfect arranger.....
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