Hi Peter:

Thanks for your interest in this area. Yes, NX can be used like you say. I believe it could be more then that.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could play KN7000 formatted files on your KN6500? I don't think that’s possible. But if the KN7000 files were converted to NX midi using APC to SMF, then you would be able to. This is the message I'm trying to get across. NX is just not limited to loading General midi into NX sound, but taking advantage of Technics APC recorded songs and converting it to NX midi.

The problem that I'm finding out, is that there is not that much info regarding this area. That could be a marketing strategy by Technics, because if people were able to convert their Technics format files to NX easily then why get the next model?

I guess Technics must have someone from Microsoft on how to exploit so much features but yet not enough so the users have to get the next model, and the next model, etc... It's interesting that the older models can not play the newer models formatted files. I wonder why that is?$

Along with lack of information, Technics does need to upgrade their APC to SMF convert feature to be more effective. As I mentioned before, when the panel memory button is used, the instrument sound and volume does not transfer over into NX which has to be done manually. Which can be a turn off (a pain) resulting in not using this feature. Again, is this a marketing ploy by Technics?

I'm just trying to get a handle of this feature and see what can come out of it. Nothing to loose, but just look at what can be gained?

Anthony