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Originally posted by Frank L. Rosenthal:
We have the innovation and type of keyboards today because there is a business case to support them. Yamaha or others don't produce better keyboards because some few people are howling about this or that!!! They produce them because there is money to be made and residence customers who want them.


Sounds like you're saying that arranger keyboard manufacterers only design arrangers with home (residence) players in mind. Of course arranger keyboard manufactering is a business with the aim of making $, but I believe that the keyboard manufacters (Ketron etc) are truly wanting to improve their products and are turning to us pro players for guidance in this area. You seem to think I'm a (harping?)complainer. I don't just complain, I also offer SOLUTIONS!

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Originally posted by Frank L. Rosenthal:
The vast majority of residential customers know very little music theory! If it sounds good to them, it looks good to them, it is reliable, is reasonably prices, etc. they will take it. To them most things more than a major, a minor or a 7th is esoteric so is anything more than 192 ppq.


Well, the bottom line, even for me as a trained musician, is 'how' it SOUNDS. Irregardless of one's musical training or background, I think it would be quite noticeable to even the untrained ear, that the full kb mode chord voicing recognition problem I outlined, does not sound pleasant or musical.

AS far as the issue of timing resolution , I still believe that 92 ppq is NOT adequately suficient. 192 ppq is better, but just the fact that Yamaha has recently increased the timing resolution to a whopping 1,920 ppq shows that they acknowledge the importance of HIGHER timing resolution accuracy. .
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