A KEYBOARD MUST SATISFY THE INDIVIDUALS NEEDS.
Please excuse the length of this post, when I am into something I love its hard to be brief.
I played professional guitar close to forty years. Studied every phrase of guitar including classical. I gave lessons and supported my family with my guitar. I had the best of guitars, accurate, easy to play and a beautiful tone. The guitar was a hand made, when I sold it there was enough money to buy a new car and still have some extra dollars. When I used that guitar in my band it was worthless. The beauty/value of the guitar was over come by the bas, drums and sax, what was left sounded terrible. Hold that thought.
In order to answer the question Why do I love the Kn7000 I need to do a comparison with a Yamaha Tyros keyboard. Please correct if I have miss quoted.
Storage:
Kn7 A SD card or a very expensive hard drive.
Tyros Memory stick (Thumb drive) Storage is limited to the size of the memory stick. That means every thing that is in your computer can be carried to the keyboard.
Set ups for songs:
Kn7 Favorites, memory banks and the SD card.
Tyros Music Finder. The capacity is approximately 2500 songs. You can delete and create your own. There is a main page with all the songs a Favorite page and two pages used for a search. The song titles can be displayed alphabetically, by tempo, or by style. The order can be changed, A to Z or Z to A, ect. You can add a code to each song which will allow you to do a search on using the code. Da = dance. BB = Big Band. SR = Seniors. Each search brings the code category. The codes/categories are unlimited and you can place the same song in the code areas. Locate the song, press one button and the keyboard is ready to play with your selected intro, variation and tempo.
Panel Memory:
Kn7 Select normal or extended 104 memory areas.
Tyros You do not select normal or extended. When you press the save button a display is shown which allows you to choose the parameters you want. Tempo, Transpose, style, ect. This means memory #1 and memory #2 can be totally different in what they have saved. The number is limited to the size of the memory stick.
Sequencer: -- NO CONTEST Not even close, The Kn 7 is the friendliest and it covers all the needs I will ever have.
Pads:
Kn7 Six and then reload from the SD card.
Tyros Four pads with instant reload. You can play all the pads at the same time you can chose a pad select and then another pad group and press a new selection and it will play the original selection with the new selection. Storage unlimited Memory disk.
Sequencer playback No Contest, the Tyros offers many options.
Music or lyric display -- No Contest, the Tyro offers many options. One memory button will call up the sequenced song, my keyboard setup, and the lyrics.
Styles: -- No Contest The Tyros can hold as many styles as you can fit in your memory stick and the can be called up by using the memory panel, no loading to be done. The amount of keyboard support and styles are unbelievable.
Controls and features Again no contest The Tyros offers the features of as advanced mixer A workable Volcalizer with its own mixer, and an EQ which is works better.
There is more but enough said Now why do I love the KN7.
The Kn7 was created to play the music that I love and understand. Cole Porter, Berlin, Glenn Miller -- Theres my heart, I am a senior. With all the goodies on the Tyros the Kn7 over all sound can not be duplicated. The Tyros was created for a different purpose. It is like listening to a Big Band of today play Glen Miller, the feel is gone, the younger musicians did not live it. The Kn7 IS ONE OF A KIND and sad to say like many of the beautiful things that seniors enjoy, it is no longer in production. I am enjoying my Kn5000, its surprising how good it is. If all goes well I will find another Kn7000.
John C.
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