Hi Scott, interesting points, see also my earlier post at
http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/Forum37/HTML/002857.html

which is relevant here.
We'll still need the floppy for loading commercial material meanwhile, as long as there are parts of the world not on the net.

The MB100 is just a teenager toy, in response to the Yamaha DJX (flop!) so is not really in the same quality league as the next arranger.

I'm sure I mailed you before about the 6000 having the same drum and voice maps maps as gm, and the apc to smf now allows much easier gm creation. Maybe not as easy as Yamaha, because their stylefile format starts off as midi anyway, but they have only recently put their sequences in ram rather than direct to disk, which was a nightmare for editing. There are pros and cons with each route.

I can't remember the chords on the 5000 now, the 6/65 goes up to added 9ths in fingered mode, and on to 6/9, 7/9, 7/11 and 13ths in full keyboard mode, is that the same as the 5000?

Also you have confused me about fills. The KN5000 has 8 fills per style, 2 fills per variation. Only 2 fills can be copied to the composer.
The 6500 has 8 fills per style, with 8 fills available in the composer and 8 fills in the custom.

The 'fill to' function is the same as Musical Style Arranger On/Off where you can choose to use a fill to change variation or not. You can either use panel memories for your registrations in these circumstances or even better put the registrations in the custom and use the MSA fill. Because you have 8 fills, you have 4 independant programmable fills to go up each variation, and 4 different independant programmable fills to go down the variations. So this is certainly going to be found on the next keyboard.

BRING BACK DYNAMIC ACCOMPANIMENT .... and PUT IT IN THE COMPOSER TOO... that would be worth having with programmable velocity/right hand note timing switching.

76... I agree with you 100%, but then I'm not a piano player...

the rest will be interesting to see...
Alec


[This message has been edited by technicsplayer (edited 02-06-2002).]