Part III-
[15:16] *** Tapesh- sets mode: +v tritonfunny
[15:16] In terms of the fixed hardware issues you were talking about before, what about a upgraded ASIC chip? Many of us who are willing to spend hundreds on expansion boards would probably be willing to spend that much on increased functionality across the board.
[15:16] *** Tapesh- sets mode: -v arvon45
[15:16] I fully understand your desired to "get what we can" but again, it would likely be so hit and miss that I think we would be more decptive.
[15:16] is vanderrohe next?
[15:16] Vanderrohe, let me finish with the Akai stuff first. I want to be sure you get full answrers here.
[15:16] oh ok
[15:17] I do agree with Arvon here though, I would love to see more akai support even if it isn't fully compatible
[15:18] TAPESH- ok... let's change it to only one person asking question at a time..
[15:18] So I can't promise anything further with AKAI reading, but again I will continue to look at it with Engineering. They have seen your list and will see this discussion - if we find that we are able to do something more productive/effective perhaps we can. But you know that I;m in the position of not being able to make you any promises.
[15:18] ok Shakil
[15:18] after vander is done is only one at a time
[15:18] ok
[15:19] What we really need is a voice that has been designed to do this. You know, Kurzweil is in the same position we are - I huess I should spend more time seeing how their community lives with it.
[15:19] But seriously, both Roland and yamaha have voice architectures which are closer to the sampler design. Thsat's why they can offer it.
[15:19] Jerry... kurzweil users are too busy programmig with VAST , than to load AKAI... plus they have huge kurzweil libraries
[15:20] Well - triton owners can be just as busy programming as well, right? I don't profess to having a voice as deep as VAST, but we are no slouches.
[15:21] i agree..
[15:22] Again - I want to have better AKAI loading, I want korg to offer you the best and most for your music. This issue WAS the first topic we starting discussing when I came aboard...
[15:22] More?
[15:22] great!!.. let's move on.
[15:22] I asked already, but I can post again if you'd like.
[15:22] ok go ahead vanderrohe
[15:22] In terms of the fixed hardware issues you were talking about before, what about a upgraded ASIC chip? Many of us who are willing to spend hundreds on expansion boards would probably be willing to spend that much on increased functionality across the board.
[15:23] OK - i just re-read. That's a hard one. It takes over two years to develop, debug and implement a new ASIC design. And after that effort we would want it to be able to offer us as many new features and possibilities.es
[15:24] So to do what you suggest would mean we would have to limit many aspects to stay compatible with the data I/O required by the current mainboard, while we did some other fixes.
[15:25] Although, admitedly, the architecture wouldn't need to be designed from the ground up, correct?
[15:25] vanderrohe Ihave to take u off cuz we have lot more questions in the line.. u can go back in the line again by msging me.. sorry for doing so ..
[15:25] Maybe we'd get new filter, but we couldn't increase the ROM/RAM memory addresses. or added more busses or I/O... it's all intertwined and becomes difficult.


MORE TO COME.
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