First of all, I think the Solton SD1 is a FANTASTIC sounding professional keyboard instrument. I never said is wasn't.

I also NEVER said or meant to infer that anyone who likes a Ketron keyboard is not a real musician (because of its lack of specific chord voicing recognitions).

I know that you don't need to play rootless style chord voicings to sound great on the Ketron Solton arranger keyboards, but, why NOT include these voicings in the chord recognition palette as Yamaha & Technics did? Doing so will only ENHANCE both your playing and chord voicing (keyboard sound) possibilities. Afterall, I doubt if anyone here actually uses (plays) the chord voicings specified in this topic thread to trigger the chord names Solton chose to assign them. I had posed this question in an earlier post and not a single person came forward saying they used any of these chord voicings to trigger Solton's chosen chord name assignments. If no one actually uses these specific chord voicings for Solton's associated chord assignments, why NOT assign them to the chords more commonly used in keyboard playing as Yamaha and Technics did?

Dan, I'm sure my chord recognition issue is NOT a problem for many pro musicians out there (as I acknowledge that there are many styles of keyboard playing), but even so, I still can't understand why Solton couldn't EASILY ammend their software to include the relatively few chords voicings & associated chord name assignments that are incorporated in the Yamaha & Technics boards. This would just make that many more keyboard players happy and increase the market share to the Ketron Solton product line as well. Is that too much to ask?

Scott

[This message has been edited by Scottyee (edited 03-14-2001).]