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Originally posted by digitalvision:
Mini, me thinks youve got the wrong end of the stick entirely and have quoted products out of thin air that dont relate to arrangers, or reality for that matter, and have intentionally taken the topic of course onto a scene that is best left to blip and blop dance soundmakers. If NASA is using BOSE in the shuttle, its probably cause theyre the one of the few organisations that can afford the bloody stuff! LOL

Getting back to arranger keyboards, for want of some more down to earth ideas let's hear them, im all ears?


The main computers which control the Space Shuttle date back to the late 1970s. My son's calculator has more computing capacity than the three space shuttle computers combined (used for triple redundancy). Their mass storage consists of 100 KB of non-volatile memory (each). I believe there is a way to reload the memory contents, but this is normally not done in flight.

Nonetheless, they have proven reliability, and their software has been validated with many thousands of hours of testing. Most of all, they are quite adequate for the task they are intended to do. The same can be said about many of the keyboards (or other musical instruments). In fact, I had a turn of the century piano some time ago, which sounded and worked better than most Chinese wonders (no offence intended) which you would buy at a piano store today. Newer does not always mean better.

I believe the arranger keyboards' primary purspose is to provide quality reproductions of the sounds of real instruments. To that end, I find that any of today's high end (and many mid-line) arrangers have achieved near-perfection. Having a complex synth engine would only complicate life of a performer.
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Alex