Originally Posted By: travlin'easy

I'm quite confident that Jerry could sit down and record demos for any keyboard, and make them sound like a million bucks. He didn't need any special effects, he just played as he has always played.
Cheers,
Gary cool



Gary ... I don't doubt your friend's MUSICAL talent in the least, and I'm sure he made your 950 sound GREAT ...
but when talking about the SOUNDS of the on-board demos, we are NOT just talking MUSICIANSHIP, but also the TECHNICAL expertise needed to get the voices to sound like the demos ... as great as your friend may have sounded, I doubt that the VOICES he used sounded JUST LIKE the ones in the on-board demos ... it takes TECHNICAL expertise, and fully 'digging in' to the KB to achieve those sounds ...
I doubt that there is a player on this forum who took his/her KB out of the box and kept the factory sounds 'as is' ... everyone has 'tweaked' a board to some extent ... taking that to the 'Nth' degree might bring the sounds close to the demos ...

And you are right - a great player can sound great on a cheap board, but a lousy player will still sound lousy on a Steinway ...

JMHO
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