Hi Frank,
what software are you planning to use for your tweaking etc ?

Basically why I decided to go for the Hypercanvas as my style basis rather than the fonts. The fact the the styles all will need a certain amount of tweaking etc .
With the soundfonts the temptation for me is always there to keep upgrading individual sounds, which is great for main melody sounds, but could cause chaos within the styles, I could imagine I'd be forever tweaking them.

Beauty of the softsynth sound system for me is, there's no need for me to upgrade, or if I do, I can redo my styles slowly. Better still, I don't have to sell another piece of hardware if I do upgrade. Gone are the days when I had 5 or 6 sound modules midied together, now it all fits in my laptop and maybe one day a second harddrive.

Is your TTS-1 General Midi2 ?

I also like the Edirol Super Quartet. It only has piano's , guitars , bass & drums.

The Edirol Orchestral one interested me also, but I haven't managed to find a demo version of it.

I have a bit of a bizzare question for you.
If I actually had an inexpensive psr keyboard to play the actual style, I midi it to my laptop, I assume I can use the laptop and a softsynth as a sound module?
ie I used to midi my roland e86 to my roland u220 sound module. The e86 played the style, but u220 produced the sound.

What I'm getting at is, if the computers not actually playing the style but only acting as a sound module, would I still need a second hard drive for the bigger samplers like giga etc ie the computers memory is not being taxed by having to run
omb/livestyler or a sequencer, it's only supplying the sound. Or doesn't it work that way?


best wishes
Rikki

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Frank L. Rosenthal:
[B]However, it will require tweaking of the drums, drum channels, etc. to optomize the sound for Yamaha Styles.

I checked the installation folder and from as near as I can gather the size of the wavetable is 13.5 mb or about half that of Roland's HQ Hyper Canvas.