no, not preventing at all, just 6500 format. The keyboard will load the previous 3 generations of technics formats, and the EMC allows conversion to and from between about 5 generations of technics formats.

Likewise you can convert these 5 or 6 previous generations of technics formats into Yamaha, Solton or others with the Universal or their own respective individual EMC programs, so no limitations there.

If EMC can't work out how to do 6500 format yet, maybe that's their problem? The style conversion that comes with the 6500 is just an extra included in the price that most others don't have.

The first 4 or 5 notes, I meant the actual intro\ending programmed into a keyboard. The conversion programs will convert exactly the notes given as input.
With the intros I thought that if you followed the exact melody of a song for more than X (4,5?) notes, you had to pay a royalty?
That's why the intros and endings of styles obviously based on a real song mostly have a few different notes in the intro and ending, to avoid paying this fee?

[This message has been edited by technicsplayer (edited 01-29-2002).]