Hi,

It’s always the same thing. All persons forget to divide the Mby of voices memory by the number of voices? VA5 has 48 Mby but more than 3600 voices, this is 14 Kby per voice (average). PSR 2000 has 16 Mby but only 800 voices; this is 20 Kby per voice (average). So the quality of the voices can not be very different between them. I have a Roland XP 30 with the expansion cards and I have heard side by side the XP 30 and the PSR 2000. Indeed there are good voices and poor voices in both.
A test (side by side I did): Go to a real horizontal (and can also be a vertical) Yamaha piano and hear the brightness of the two upper octaves sound mainly the second before the last (the same as the last in a keyboard of 5 octaves (normal pitch)). Now go to a Roland keyboard (5 octaves in the normal pitch) and play the same octave. Result: the sound has lack of the high harmonics. Now hear the same octave in a PSR 2000 or 9000; it’s not so bright as the real piano, but it’s brighter than a Roland VA5 is. Why? Is it missing memory to the sample or the manufacturer made a choice for this type of sound... may be. And it seems that some persons like of this sound instead of the approximation with the real one.

Regards
Carlos Rodrigues


[This message has been edited by Rodrigues (edited 11-29-2001).]

[This message has been edited by Rodrigues (edited 11-29-2001).]