I just checked the OKY-WEB page and this unit is definitely worth a good look. Unfortunately it seems to be mainly Euope-friendl. Other than that, I also recommend a used laptop. I purchased an inexpensive midi player from AMS a couple of years ago for $60 and it sounds as good as (has the same chip, I think) as my SoundCanvas. The 'GS Wavetable' soft-synth available on Win98 and higher is also Roland GM/GS stuff (similar to the Roland Virtual Synth3).
I also owned a QY100 and sold it; one big reason was because you can only save type 0 MIDI files and most of mine and the ones on the net are type 1. Converting them was a BIG pain. Yamaha has the MD-3 disk drive/player - you'd have to keep songs (20-40)on floppy disks. What about the Roland PMA-5; would that work? Keyboard Magazine just had a blurb on a pre-production Palm OS program that would handle midi files.


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Cass Pawlowski
Detroit, MI
PSR2000, Roland SC88
Cakewalk, Sonar, Power Tracks, BIAB

[This message has been edited by cassp (edited 04-29-2003).]

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I just received an email form the OKYWEB people and found out the following:

"the video interface will be compatible with U.S spec televisions
The soundchip is called a Dream chip and is a very high quality sound chip.
It is only available from us at the moment and through-out the U.K.
USD price around 580 dollars inc shipping"