Gary, I surprised that you would say that. SA voices take way more memory than conventional voices. Absolutly impossible to itroduce SA voices without adding more memory or stealing it from somewhere else.

The idea of SA drums is interesting, but I don't think it's realistic on an arranger keyboard. SA is not simple velocity switching. We've been doing that for years, and so has everyone else (not necessarily with drums). SA responds differently determined by how you play. Most keyboard players don't "play" the drums. The drums play by themselves within the context of a pattern or a style or a song. You can create a pattern or a style, but again, the vast majority of us (in the arranger world) don't. So we're going to dedicate a HUGE chunk of resources to a segment of the instrument that most customers will never "play"?

I'm not saying there's no room for improvement in the drums (a matter of opinion, not fact) but SA is absolutely not the best way to approach such an improvement.


I don't know how feasable all this is, but I like your thinking. Keep talking.