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#136308 - 11/13/03 10:30 AM
Re: BEST of BOTH Worlds?.............
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Registered: 03/08/01
Posts: 640
Loc: Cottage Grove, MN, USA
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Hey Donny,
I'll share with you my experience with outboard sound modules. I've got the Edirol SD-90 here at work as my outboard soundcard and midi sound device. Once in a while, I'll bring it home and connect it to my WK8 via a midi cable. Midi files, of course, work fine and I like the additional sounds. Playing the keyboard straight-up (no styles) works great too. But when I play a style or use the arranger function, the drumkits used in the styles are found on channel 9 and I have to manually go into the Edirol and change it...Every time I pick a different style. I suppose there's a midi control that the keyboard could send to the Edirol to tell it to use channel 9 for drums, but I haven't found it. So bottom line for me is, I just reach over and turn the volume down on the Edirol when I'm playing styles.
I see a lot of specific Tyros midi files using both track 9 and 10 for drums. I wonder if the Tyros' styles are setup the same way, two (or more) drumkits on separate channels.
I definitely agree with you about the want (or need) for a Tyros module or Korg PaX1Pro module. And Korg, when you make that PaX1 module, could you include the dual sequencers with cross fader? Thank you!
mike
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#136313 - 11/13/03 02:18 PM
Re: BEST of BOTH Worlds?.............
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Registered: 01/30/01
Posts: 125
Loc: Goleta, CA, USA
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Scott’s points are well taken. A good friend of mine started off playing jobs some years ago with a Ketron MS40 sound module and a “dumb” keyboard controller. (I believe it was a Ketar) After a while he got so fed up with having to do the extra interconnections, including plugging in the “wall wort” for the keyboard, and then have the module with it’s display screen and controls sitting off to the side, where he’d have to reach to push the buttons. He used written music, so the area in front the keyboard was used for the music stand. So he had no choice but to take along another table or stand on which he placed his module. All in all, he was extremely happy when he bought his first integrated arranger keyboard and reduced the amount of “stuff” he had to take along, set up, and interconnect. Judging from the emphasis that’s been placed by a number of the full time musicians on the Forum regarding simplifying their set-ups, I’m not sure the module approach would make everyone happy.
Now if a manufacturer of an arranger were able to offer several options of keyboards that could be “nested” within the envelope of the arranger housing, maybe that would offer the best of both worlds. Paul C.
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