George,

Thank you for trying to address my concern. I understand the polyphony and the layers/waveforms issue well. As I mentioned elsewhere, my Roland G1000 uses no more than two waveforms/voices of polyphony per note played in its better voices. With its 64 voices of polyphony, and using some single- and some dual-waveform sounds, I find myself occasionally running out. I agree with you that this is a question of arithmetics and can not be helped. I also understand that Yamaha uses many 4-waveform and some up to 8-waveform sounds, which makes it not as capable than the 62 voice instrument which only uses 2 waveforms per voice max.

However, I understand that Kurzweil advertises "true polyphony", meaning that (unless I explicitly layer voices), ONE KEY PRESSED IS ONE NOTE PLAYED. I was merely asking Paul to clarify if this is how Genesys works as well, because if it does, it would surely put Genesys as the industry lead on the polyphony issue.

I still have my trusty Roland E-70, whose sounds are fairly decent. It is very user-friendly, albeit with only 28 note polphony. It uses only single-waveform sounds (though manages to sound very decent at that). This discussion makes me realize that despite its age, it is not too far from the technological forefront. Which means that if I want to sacrifice the polyphony for the sake of user-friendliness, all I relly need to do is go to my closet and get the E-70 out of its case...

George, I am not trying to make an argument with you, and sincerely appreciate you sharing your own knowledge and the information from the manufactures with us in this forum. However, our objectives are somewhat different here: as a dealer, you have to defend and promote the instruments which the manufactures make available for you to sell. On the other hand, I, as a consumer, have to prod the industry to make the instrument that I need. I see it in part as a personal failure that after making mine (and other users') needs available to them, and helping them save on the process of market analysis, we see our critical concerns being ignored. I also take issue with the manufacturers telling us what we need. This is condescending to the users, especially since many of the users in this forum either make or supplement their livelihoods playing music, and are probably more of a professional sort than 90% of the people bying Tritons. The other 10% get their instruments for free as manufacturers' promotions, even though most of them play pre-recorded music during most of the big-name shows. Therefore, I find the assertion that we can do with 31 voices of polyphony offensive. When I hear names of the big-name musicians (for whose instruments we, the paying customers, are indirecly made to pay) thrown into my face, I find it outright insulting (I am not referring to your post, but is often the gist of much promotional coming from the manufacturers).

I think that if the manufacturers had spent more effort listening to the users like us, they would save themselves much work trying to justify and defend their mistakes.

I am sorry if my comment sounds harsh, it's just that I was really was looking forward to getting a new instrument, only to realize that whatever else is probably not an improvement over my current gear.

REgards,
Alex

[This message has been edited by Alex K (edited 07-24-2003).]