To the new board style seekers,

Technote has all kinds of styles for your keyboard for sale. I don’t know if KN7000 styles are compatible with your boards. However there are many styles that will work. There are also many many styles that have been converted from all the other makes of keyboards that are available from many sources just for the asking. As far as me personably I have very few styles, maybe a dozen, that I use once in a while that are not native to my KN7000. I have had all of the technics keyboards to date plus another make that I must say never turned me on after I bought it. A waste of money, but live and learn. I suppose if I never was spoiled by the KN’s I would have thought they were excellent. Kind of like owning a Mercedes and then buying a Chevy. Oh well! I will say that at a period of my life I did have many many styles. I had disks full of them. I had so many disks of styles that I bought a hard disk for my KN5000 to get things under control and organized. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of styles. Hundreds and hundreds of bucks. Man, I had a collection. After time went on and many many hours of work organizing, guess what? I found I hardly ever used them on jobs or playing at home. I finally realized most of the on board styles were far superior to the rest if I just took a little time to match the style to the song. I also found that by altering the existing on board style a little, was far better than the others. Muting a few things, changing volumes of some parts, maybe a drum set, an instrument choice, things like that. I then would save these changes, give them a name and save them in a section of the hard disk. I then note the rhythm style or styles, the tempo or some other pertinent info on the music and everything was fast and cool. Now everything runs clean and lean. Now with the advent of the SD card everything is fast, cool and smooth. No seven hundred dollars for a hard drive. When the new boards come out down the road, wow! Take my little SD card, boogie over to the 8000, slip it in the ity-bity silver slot and away we go. Gramps is cooking again. Funny. When I got the seven and first played it at one of the restaurants I regularly play, what were the remarks? Wow, new keyboard? Looks great. OR. You been takin lessens? Never heard you sound so good! OR. One guy said, for a minute I thought Lenny Dee was here. No, I said, just some of the new organ stuff on here. Anyway thanks for the five and thanks for coming. You bet, I’ll be back. See ya. Nice feeling. Kind of makes the three G’s seem worthwhile.

Anyway, collect to your hearts content, kind of fun for awhile. I did! But it’s hard to beat what ya got. Sorry, I got rid of all those things and glad I did but had fun with the experience.

Grandpa Doug