Welcome Gabriele !

This 'king' looks great. I wished they had sound/style demos on the website.
(e.g. drawbarsound, leslie,strings, piano and brass/sax)

The solid state (flash?) drive is very interesting, because I hate the noise of HDD's. (The SD1 drive is very noisy while idle)

The real deal.

Wow, that adaptive chording looks interesting. Anyone have experience with that?

Cool...a D-Beam controller !

Why the hell cant they, or dont they, put chord recognition into synths I'll never know. What's the point of having overpriced arranger keyboards when an all-purpose workstation would do the job, and keyboard manufacturers like using modes, so where's the problem?

Personally, I like the over priced arrangers, better than "workstations"...I can do anything I need on an arranger[top of the line]..and much more than I can do on a workstation,including mt Triton Studio..

[This message has been edited by Fran Carango (edited 09-30-2004).]

Is it my imagination or has anyone else ever noticed that nearly all 76 key boards always begin the left side with "F"? Why not have the first key of "C" like the 61-key boards? Don't make good sense to me, but then, what the hell do I know!

Cheers,

Gary

Why bother with a Tyros 2 when a Motif EX with larger screen, voice effects, and chord recognition could do the job far better than any standalone arranger. This is a no-brainer. Why have two departments within a company creating two costly products, when one would do the job.

No one here could argue that an 'arranger' keyboard sounds like an arranger keyboard. Prove me wrong. Do a workstation song to a comparative arranger song and you will hear the difference.

As of now, technically there is NO need for arranger keyboards. It appears they are being made to keep the status quo and keep putting out old technology. Arrangers have not improved all that much in 10+ years when you think about it.

Gary, they go down to an E, not F...just like the low E on a bass..it is perfect..

Digitalvision, Go work a single with your "Workstation". and handle request...how many can you pull off...The arranger keeps you in control..As for quality of sound verses Workstations..it doesn;t exist in today's market..
I have had all the workstations and many of the sounds are better on my arrangers..An example the Piano on the Triton[hip hop oriented keyboard] can't compare to the VA-7 piano...

Use what works for you,,but the synth workstation will never replace the arranger keyboard...

BTW what can you do on a "workstation" that we can't do on flagship arranger workstations?

Good points Fran.......
Aranger gives you "REAL TIME" control....and thats the ticket unl;ess you ant to be a slave to repetitive sequences all night!