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Originally posted by santa1:
I hear lots of people talking about MIDI disks to play on their keyboards. Well fellow Technics Owners, we have at our fingertips, instruments that will outperform nearly all the MIDI music I have heard. I am speaking of Sequencing. If you are muscian enough, you can create incredible arrangements, intros, endings,fill ins, etc., either from scratch or by re-arranging those on the keyboard. By using the composer section, panel memories and the sequencer,you are like a painter with a palet full of colors (backgrounds, rhythms, sounds, effects and so much more from which to create your own music. When stored on disk or SD card or MP3, you have your own personal ideas and music to work with in any what you need or want. I play professionally and sequence nearly all my songs. I carry two keyboard, which allow me to play along to a sequenced background from the other keyboard (both Technics). I also play trumpet and flugelhorn, banjo and sing. I also use a Digitech vocalizer. I spend hours on arrangements. My audiance is basically a dancing crowd and so I need variety. I suppose I am called a Electic-Accustic performance artist. At least I know that what people hear, is entirerly me and my creation. It is my experience that most people in a crowd don't much care about how music is produced anymore. Live music is an endangered species. Since my first Technics (KN800) to the KN1000 and KN2000 is use in performance to the KN7000 I will eventually willtake to gigs, I am committed to Technics and have kept working for years without having to depend on MIDI files which always soud plastic to me. I have not attended the Florida Jam, because it appears that most, if not all attending look down on any performance that is not "live". Viva Technics!!


As a non-musician, (I am strictly an ear-player with no musical background and little knowledge of consequence), I have no idea how to go about "sequencing". You, Santa1, indicate that you have done a great deal of sequencing, resulting in many arrangements, intros, fill-ins, endings, etc. that can be used to play in innovative ways on the keyboards you use. I would like to encourage you, and others who have done such sequencing, to provide us "ignoramuses" with some of these new ways to set up the great Technics keyboards for various types of music. I have a good collection of floppies and SDs, ordered from Technics in the past or downloaded from sites on the web, and often use them to supplement the built-in patterns and rhythms of my KN 7000, but often even those could use some "tweaking" and/or rearranging, but I really do not know how to do that. I'm sure others like me--(non-professionals and musically deficient)--would like to have even more new sequenced arrangements. So, why don't you, and any others with the ability to "sequence," give some thought to sharing some of your ideas with the rest of us?

Just a thought as I read your post tonight, Santa1. Comments and suggestions always welcome from all my SynthZone friends and colleagues.

Ted Rose