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Originally posted by technicsplayer:
We are still talking about different things. Cart your pc with cubase, halion, controller keyboard, and equivalent sound system on stage


Actually, you'd be surprised that some do carry their Giga systems on stage. I wouldn't risk it, far too volatile (don't use GIGAStudio anyhow) In fact, I remember one of Techics excellent performers (Danny Dayn) carrying his Atari along with him during the KN1000 era.

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press one button and play a cha cha with no prior programming... That's what I mean about apples and cheese. There's much more in a KN then just voices, people buy them because everything they need is in one box.


Oh, very true. It's really the "band in a box" capability due to the arranger.

But to me the arranger is boring and unflexible, I prefer to play every instrument myself.

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I'm all for wave rom, the more the better. I've often said they can sell a keyboard with just flash inside and let me decide what to put in it downloaded from the internet. But what you are talking about is a totally different animal to an arranger keyboard. You need a Wersi Abacus, a rather more realistic price point for what you talking about maybe?[/b]


Never heard of the Wersi Abacus. Besides, with the advent of software samplers I've not looked back at hardware gear. I have a Yamaha A5000 sampler collecting dust here. Even my PR703 gets less use now, though it's still very useful to me.

I still wish Technics would have allowed the user to at least load a bunch of their own samples. With 128 megs of wave memory one could do a lot!

Oh and sorry for the somewhat late response. Been on holliday.

[This message has been edited by JvG (edited 07-28-2002).]