Hi BlkNotes

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Your statement below interests me. Would you be able to clarify and elaborate a bit. From the video the GM sound in the styles are just average.


Yes, the stock GM Library that comes with the keyboard are basically sampled sounds from other arrangers and the odd VSTi here and there likely passed through Extreme Sample Converter.

So while GM Library is pretty good by normal keyboard standards, it is still very typical of what you would expect from a closed keyboard and not any sort of measure of what an open keyboard can do.

This is likely the case for compatibility reason.

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When remapping sound can one draw from the sound libraries that are avaliable ( i.e. Giga , AKAI, VSTi Libraries ) and insert them into the styles? For instance there is a style that you were playing in a video that has a strumming guitar in it that does not sound very realistic. Could one use a much better strumming acoustic or electric guitar and insert it in place of the GM guitar, thus elevating the overall realism of the style?
The above would also apply to various styles in Audya or Tyros, Korg extra that have accompaniment styles that draw upon their particular sound engines to create the parts in the styles--i.e. like the acoustic and electric strumming guitars, big band brass blasts, etc...


Yes, and this is a key point behind the keyboard. Take just the stock GM library for example, if you go through that replacing the sounds with extremely high quality premium content then automatically everything that uses the GM bacnk benefits.

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Would there be a limit to how many external high quality sounds one could import to the styles?



With any technology there is always some upper limit but you would have to create one monster GM Library to put the system under any strain. All the sounds are streamed from the HDD, so even if your GM library is really big, only a fraction of that is actually loaded to memory.

So I'll put it to you this way, I haven't seen any memory issues yet and I only have 4GB in my Mediastation. You can install a lot more RAM into the newer Groove Series too.

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Would it tax the memory or processor or take too long to load in a live situations.


There will be no loading times if you insert your sounds into the GM bank. During the bootup process the sounds in the GM bank are loaded to RAM so that once the system is up and running, the sounds are instantly available.

So again you would have to assemble one monster GM library to tax the system.

Regards
James
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