Quote by rikkisbears, the originator of this thread: “we seem to have gotten a bit off the track heehee. In my original posting I was trying to ask if( maybe I didn't word it too well) anyone knew, whether or not , potential new KN2600& Kn2400 owners were going to have access to the previous model kn styles. We kn7 owners had these styles made available to us on the kn7 website as .cst's and ast's which load into the custom memory of the kn7 keyboard. Just wondering if they were available anywhere as normal kn styles which should be able to be used in the 2 new kn keyboards.
best wishes
Rikki”.

tracknet, it seems the starter of this thread seems to think we have gotten off track as well as I do. In another of Rikki’s comments there is an attempt to explain to you the workings of the SD card. Far better and faster than floppies. You state you know nothing about the workings of the KN boards so Rikki is trying to enlighten your ignorance. Being ignorant of the technics operating system you claim to love the technics keyboard. Love the technics if it would work like the Yamaha in your estimation. If technics worked like a Yamaha they would have to take three giant steps backward into the world of dying technology. You say you love technics keyboards? How can you say that when you state to us you have no knowledge of how they work and then with great authority claim the KN’s have a great deficiency. I have a choice word for that but will not spell it out. Because you will not post on your profile the kind of instrument you play, if any, or what your interests may be I can only assume by your postings on this and the general forum that your interest is in comparing brands of keyboards and becoming an expert on the deficiencies of same.

tracknet, asking how many styles can be loaded into the keyboard is a legitimate question. Without any knowledge of (by your own admission) and then assuming none or not many can be loaded is illogical thinking. To extend that into making a determination that technics is therefore deficient is stupidity. Taking it to your ultimate deficiency by comparing it to Yamaha’s primitive floppy technology and determining it is better, without understanding or knowledge of the KN’s system, is the height of nonsense and shows where your coming from. What is your fault, you say? I’ll bet you still can’t figure it out!

tracknet, Quote: “sorry that was not my intention”. What was your intention? Quote: “To tell us you don't understand the way to play external styles, nor how many styles may load into the keyboard”? You seem to know that KN’s don’t play styles directly from a floppy. At least you know something. In light of this one fact of knowledge what seems to be your intention? To tell us because of this one fact our keyboard’s are thus deficient? Or maybe technics is second rate because they don’t follow the Yamaha way of doing things. Could be you enjoy and work for consumer reports and are in the business of product comparison and evaluation. However it seems they would require someone with a little understanding of the product they are evaluating. Never the less, I’m also sorry if my words are offensive to you but when your intent is to tell us our KN’s are inferior to Yamaha’s floppy’s compared to the KN’s SD cards, with no knowledge or understanding (according to your words), that is pure rubbish. Sorry! Rubbish is rubbish. Cow paddies are cow paddies. Evaluating something without understanding is evaluating something without understanding. Stupidity is still stupidity no matter what is the intention. If you have played and understood the operating system of both Yamaha and Technics and then choose the Yamaha floppy system in favor of the SD system that would be a genuine opinion of preference and you would have every right to express yourself. No fault except for the fact that it has nothing to do with the question at hand. However if you give an opinion without any understanding of the product, as you state, your opinion now becomes an uninformed opinion of preference with no credence. A statement of pure bias, sticking out like a sore thumb. As the old saying goes: Put your brain in gear before you turn on your tongue. As Jimmy (James) once said, the tongue seems hard to control. Then again I remember somebody of importance once said, remove the board out of your own eye before you try to remove the splinter out of someone else’s. Whoops! Think it’s time for me to shut up.

Grandpa Doug