As many of you know, I have acquired the newest gear to hit the market simply because I can. Is that good ? Not necessarily. It is time consuming, although fun, to delve into new keyboards trying to get a better sound and easier approach to playing and singing the thousands of songs in my arsenal.

Conclusions:

The Audya, e.g., has live sounds and great styles with live drums and guitars, WAV,Midi and MP3. The recording ability is superb. Now-- Let's go to it or the Roland G-70 and set up a song to change variations and instruments. Very cumbersome and time consuming. Let's go to the KN7000 using PM. Eight variations, easily advanced by a step of the pedal and maybe ten minutes to set it up.

Let's not forget that we adopt our impression of how an instrument sounds from what we hear on our keyboards. We might like it better than a previous model we had. We think ah, it was worth the money, forgetting we could have tweaked the filter or eq to change it.

Our concept of how a board sounds might be important to us because we have to please ourselves to feel good about what we are doing. The fact of the matter is the audience could care less, as all the major brands have very acceptable sounds. It is how we deliver that sound that is important.

John doesn't have the corner on rambling it seems. Just the musings of another old guy.

Bernie