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Originally posted by Uncle Dave:
Oh Wow......I disagree! It's one of my very FAVORITE things to play with those Roland Scats ( the BEST in the biz, I think )
I got very used to the switching in just a few seconds. It's like playing a hand drum with different velocity. Just FEEL the rhythm, and don't think so much.


Ok, let me back out of this gracefully. It doesn't surprise me at all that UD and others can play the Roland 4-way scat program (one of my favorites as well) masterfully. Those that can handle the scat program are good candidates for using the megavoices live.

For contrast, consider a triple-strike piano. If your velocity is on the wrong side of a velocity boundary (e.g., 65 instead of 64) you get a slight timbral variation. In the case of the scat, you get a wrong syllable--which is more disturbing. In the case of a megavoice, you might get a drastic change of timbre--e.g., a mute instead of an undamped string sound. So until you master a megavoice, expect to be a jarred by some errant timbres.