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Originally posted by Diki:
Not the hardest thing in the world to create your own default startup Performance, and select it manually, though...

The drum problems can at least now be addressed by the Style Editor in GW-8 OS2. It just takes selecting one MIDI note in the drum Part and transposing it to where it needs to go. Not by any means as easy to do as the E/G drum Makeup Tools, but at least it IS doable (and STILL a lot easier to do than most sub-$1000 arranger)...


Diki, you seem to have taken my comments as being critical. Careful your Roland badge is showing

Seriously though, I agree that the work-arounds are not difficult at all, I was not trying to imply that the GW8 is a nasty keyboard.

Best " bang for buck" out there really.

And the pianos and ep's, at this price point are very good, as is the keybed, very nice to play.

I am merely pointing out some of the things that I found, that Nick may also find.

As a bit of a guess, and based on the random samples I tried, I would say about 40% of the styles imported will be okay, the rest will need work.
From something as simple as a rhythm guitar being swapped for an obviously out of place distorted guitar, to removal of ghost notes in the drum track which, whilst they work on the E80, don't work quite the same on the GW8

NONE of these things are insurmountable in the least, but they ARE there.

Dennis