Hi George and all,

Finding out just today that Solton will finally be implementing in its' Solton SD1, the rootless chord voicing recognition I had been requesting for such a LONG time, is truly amazing and WONDERFUL NEWS to my ears. It is even MORE interesting to discover that the head of Solton-Ketron, Sandro himself, had not only ‘personally’ responded to my request via a personal email to Bell Solton NY (way back in January) but also promised to have the “rootless chord” voicing recognition implemented in the final SD1 software revision before shipping.

To be honest, I was really beginning to really feel ignored by Solton, but apparently there was a major communications snafu and Sandro’s original January email response never got back to George Kaye or myself until today, March 30th.

If Solton in fact does follow through on its’ promise to add full rootless chord voicing recognition in the release version of the SD1, I will be most anxious to take a serious look at upgrading to what I remembered (from my short time playing the SD1 at the Jan NAAM show) a truly remarkable keyboard which has both exciting and realistic sounding styles and sounds. If the rootless chord voicing recognition gets implemented in the SD1 as promised, I now will no longer have to simply “get over it”! Let’s keep our finger’s crossed. Three CHEERS to George Kaye for all his help and support. He is not only an honest keyboard dealer, but a guy who really cares and listens to our needs as musicians.

Here is a link to my original email sent to Sandro at Solton & Lou Lazarro at Bell Solton, NY, via George Kaye. This clearly outlines all my chord voicing recognition change requests:
http://www.synthworld.com/ubbs/Forum37/HTML/001167.html

- Scott


[This message has been edited by Scottyee (edited 03-30-2001).]