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DonM

Style Factory from EMC looks very interesting as well.
Thanks for the info
GJ

Wow a Kurzweil arranger. I can just imagine what the price tag will be. Kurzweil makes awsome workstations and they are quite expensive. Top line arrangers tend to run higher than synth/workstations, and I can't see Kurzweil making a budget lower end arranger workstation. The sounds will be top notch, no doubt about that one. You guys remember that $20,000 Kurzweil "Sweetwater" was selling? You could get the "Sweetwater" version of it for $12-$15,000

Squeak

I would think that if they do decide to make one, they will have a lot of catching up to do, since the other companies have years of experience and feedback.
We'll see.
DonM

Wow,
A product as such would light up this forum, at least for me.
zuki

The Oasys doesnt sound very exspensive now does it?

Phil

hi Jonny,
I can do something similar with omb software, ( Style Factoery) but it would be great if EMC does it for all types of arrangers. About time somebody thought to create software for this type of function.

Strange, I don't ever remember Kurzweil ever having had an arranger keyboard ?

best wishes
Rikki
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gunnar Jonny:
[B]Style Factory from EMC looks very interesting as well.

In the mid-90's I played one of their digital pianos with arranger functions.

It sounded great and was way ahead of its time. Rather expensive as I remember.

At the time they used what was called artificial intelligence to create their very realistic sounds.

Kurzweil has had arranger functions on their console digital keyboards for some time now. It wouldn't take much for them to incorporate that system into a "portable" keyboard. I would suspect they would use their PS2 board as a model, the 2600 might be too much board to market.

Actually a few years ago I imported a couple of Roland G 800 styles in my K 2600.
I first converted the styles to midi in Cakewalk and then recorded the styles in realtime straight in the onboard sequencer of the K 2600.

So indeed I think it won't take them much to include the conversion in the O/S.

Personally I wouldn't need something like that as I don't use styles anymore, but looks like a nice feature.