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Originally posted by chdolar:
[B] I don't understand why Roland did not incorperate a Hard drive on their keyboard.......Roland uses a 50Mb SSD for internal memory( solid state disc). 50Mgs is not alot of space. Especially when companies like Korg have 20Gb drives on boards & yamaha sell 20Gb upgrades for the tyros.

@ Chdolar---are the card slots you are refering to for actual blank memory upgrade to do with as one wishes, or are you talking about the SRX slots which are for Rolands sound banks ( with burned in sound for expanding the voice sections)?
....Thank-you
Regards;
SCP


50 Mb doesn't look like a lot, but it's the largest internal memory in any arranger on the market. You can use it in any way you like, hundreds of user programs only take a few MB's. And 50 MB equals about 1.000 midifiles.

Adding the PCMCIA card slot is a clever move in my opinion, because this allows you to use any type of flash memory card. Most of us already have one or more of these cards at home from a digital camera or pocket-pc. You only need the adaptor for your particular card and that costs about $ 10,-

I have a spare 128 Mb CF card for instance. If I had this keyboard it would have a second life and could store lots and lots of user programs and about 2.500 SMF's, if I would ever use that many...

I don't have the luxury of a harddisk in my current arranger but this makes me wonder why anyone would ever need 30 gigabites in a keyboard? Only if you do harddisk MP3 recordings I guess.

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Tom NL
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Tom NL