I apologise if I have caused any offence to you JvG but from your generally negative remarks about the KN keyboards, it would seem natural to draw the conclusion that you dislike them and arranger keyboards in general.

What other conclusion can anyone come to, after reading remarks like the following?

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(Quote from Douglas Dean)
...comes down to apples and oranges, I like the KN’s and how they sound.
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Well, I don't anymore, because I want to be able to do this: (Reference to Web Site)
I used an expensive string library though for the track, but the result is there. If the KN7000 can't come close to that sound, I'm not buying.

2. I have some amazing sounding acoustic guitars here, but these are ~30 megs a piece. Meaning one instrument alone would take up about half the available sample rom of the KN7000. Oh well, guess that means my PR703 will be my last technics instrument.

3. The sampled sounds just sounded, well, dull and lifeless. There's no other way to put it. The guitars still sound fake, the vocals were annoyingly sterile.

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

I still stand by my original comment - "I respectfully suggest that you reserve judgement on the KN7000, until you hear the 'Real Thing'" I have listened to the samples on Taiyo site, through good quality sound equipment attached to my PC, which is fitted with a Creative Audigy sound card. In my opinion, the recordings do not give a true representation of the sounds which I heard, during the KN7000 demonstration I attended.


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Willum