Originally posted by DAN.2000:
Hi Dave,
First of all, I want to say to you, that you are really a positive man for Gem, and I want to thank you for all your fast and precise help.

I want to say somthing about your last post.
About sampling:
I know that arranger keyboards are not really SAMPLERS, and it's just for help us a little.
For example, I said to Ketron a big bug in the SD1 samplers, and the developper said to me that the chip can only read ROM sounds, and they had crack it to read RAM sounds too... just to help us a little to have another sounds...
I know all that, and I bought the last Kurzweil K2661 with 128 Mb of RAM.
I have also KONTAKT sample player on my PC with 1.5 Gb of RAM...
But, what we really needs? If we take an pro arranger keyboard, it's because we want a keyboard that can make our work easy... My dream is to just to plug the keyboard, to the HP, without any mixer, without any external CD player, to plug mics with good effects (reverb, eq), and to have the better sound possible in just one plug! :::> The Keyboard who can make all (not the coffee ok )
Today samplers have not arranger part, and the genesys one is one of better.
Take another keyboard with you, just to have 10/15 of your personal sounds, not make me happy.
You know, If i was able to add an extra computer SDRAM (128Mb) to my arranger keyboard, to load fast samples, I will pay extra money for that keyboard...
The thing I don't understand, is that before the Genesys, GEM had sampler with more ram in the WK8, so why downgrade?
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About the copy protection of AKAI CD, I think you are wrong! If my PC computer, and my Kurz sampler can read them, The genesys can read them directly if it wants...
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