Too bad Technics is not making keyboards anymore.They were ahead of time.I believe lots of it went to Yamaha, but Yamaha usually waters down everything when it comes to keyboards.

I was just going to post what Mirza said. Techinics was ahead of its time. The sequencer was awesome and easy to edit. Still Have the Kn7000. Bought a Korg Pa3x to be more up to date but its sequencer still cannot do what the KN can do. Tried sequencing with a Yamaha and that was a nightmare.
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Such a powerful editing tool as the Pa3x I cant understand what it cant do vs the much older kn7000....please elaborate on this a bit more ....interesting? For me I hated the sunken keybed on the 7k.....didnt like the sound of my 6k-65k either......but my KN5000 I Loved.

I realize that everyone's 'ears' are different, but I don't understand what is wrong with the sounds of the kn6000? ... Perhaps you could elaborate a little more, Donny? ...

Except for the fact that I am playing considerably more 1 hour gigs and I like the lighter weight and smaller footprint of the Pa900, I don't think I would have gotten another KB ...
Well,also, I guess after about 12 years with the kn6000, and 8 years with the kn1000 before that, I just wanted to try something different ...

Tony its hard to explain & so long ago, but I remember compared to my KN5000 the 6k was a bit difficult to set up for my needs the way I like it too sound....so I returned the 6k & 65k withing weeks of purchase......I test drove a 7k at Dan O's store and the sunken keybed was terrible because both ends are sunk down and walled restricting my fingers high & low....The giant tilt up display is like the starship enterprise not natural for my playing style at all, difficult to access features buttons on the fly in split second changes,....I did however love the speaker system. I dumped them all and remember buying two Yamaha Psr9000 ...to each his own.

... and Goldilocks said "This one is too big and tilts ... THIS one is too small and doesn't tilt ... someday one will be JUST RIGHT !!!"



ABSOLUTELY!!!

Donny
I am talking in the sequencing mode.
1. KN I can assign Technicord to any channel- Cannot in Korg
2.KN can assign changes in sounds, variations, and styles to change automatic- Cannot in Korg
3.Kn can program chords easier
4.When editing a song in the sequencer in the KN screen you can see exactly whier you want a note, chord, or a change to be placed. In the Korg you have to count Measures.
5.After sequencing a song in Kn you can shut of channel one and the cords. When you the play the keyboard you can control the cords and notes with your hands. You cannot do this in Korg.
These are a few of the differences. In the KN I have way more control over my songs than I do with the Korg. There is way more button pushinging in the Korg to accomplish the same as the KN.
Don't get me wrong I like the Korg but if they were still making the Technics I would have another one. In my opinion and this is only mine. Technics was so much easier to control than the Korg. Because of the fact that the Korg cannot do the things that Technics did I feel they were ahead of their time. They did these things back in 2002 and the newer boards do not in 2014.

Tony I actually got my Technics kn5000 from Don Mason many years ago after I sold my Korg i3...made lots of money with that ax......ended up trading it to my Uncle Dave for a Ketron X1,....this is when UD used to be a "power trader" ....lol...
Times have changed,.....arrangers have changed,....It must mean something when I keep a KB like the Yamaha S-950 for over a
year & a half ......it just keeps on ticking, ....
gig after gig, after Gig!!
On the other hand reading your post it doesn't seem like you fully
"ALL IN" on the Korg vs the KN6000 at his point?..

I am keep hearing that Technics were ahead of their time... Well, possibly, but I don't think that explains anything, even less so their disappearance.

I do remember the keyboard I dreamed most of, as a child really, was a Technics KN, I don't remember the number, I think might've been KN800. And later on, the KN 3000 was the supreme that I've never had anyway.

But why ahead of their time? They were just the first in introducing some functions and features (and sounds) that other manufacturer did not. I believe they were not "ahead" but rather "right in the front".



I would like too seeing a new arranger from Technics though.

Maybe they will be the first ones to introduce the first totally or almost totally touchscreen tablet/module/unit in arrangers market........