Krix,
Yes you can have a sound module hooked up via midi and play both, or send the voices from your keyboard to the module or visa vera.
As far as reasonably priced.....that's a relative statement, but the external modules (decent ones) are in the $500.-$2000. range.
Terry

Bill, I too am surprised that not many people are concerned about this mismatch. I smelled this problem when I read PA80 specs about a year ago and even wrote to Korg as a suggestion to increase the number of fill-ins to 4. Four variations and 2 fill-ins don't match even by math. The customer support wrote back to me saying that they forwarded the suggestion to their engineering team. But that was basically it! Maybe most people use sequences, but it should be an important issue for people who mostly depend on styles. I play at friends' parties very often and I get to play what they request without having a chance to see how the fill-ins even sound like. In such cases I expect my expensive keyboard to help me. PA80 fill-ins will do the opposite for sure. Sometimes I wonder how one not see this problem at design. I REALLY REALLY REALLY hope Korg will come up with a solution for this and also for the voice truncation at patch changes. Both these are enemies of live playing as I see it.

Shiral

To the TOP!


Krix

Has anybody tried this in arranger context ? I mean playing the auto accompaniment on one keyboard using the patches on the other. I think it'll play ok, but I guess one might need to do a lot of revoicing of styles to get it all sound really nice. I once tried to play my PSR510 styles on my SW1000XG card, but it did not sound much better --if it did any better at all.

Shiral

Shiral,
I have played auto accmp. and upper lead lines through my Triton Rack at the same time. It really doesn't take a lot of tweeking, just what goes together. With the lead lines I have accessed the arps as well again, just what goes with what.
Terry

Terry,

That's good to know. What keyboard did you use to play the auto accomp., is that also a Korg ?

We once were doing some recordings way back in 1989 using --if I remeber the model numbers correctly-- Roland MC500 sequencer and a couple of Roland tone generators -- I think Y10 and Y20 or something like that. We at one point thought drums on YAMAHA Rx 5 Rythm composer sounded better and switched to that.. That was a hassel; in the fisrt run drum kit instruments were all messed up. But I think things have got standardized quite a bit since then.. it's been a while. Since then I quietly believed that if they are from different manufacturers it would be relatively harder to get them cooperate.

Your comments encouraged me to give it a try again when the need arises.

Thanks
Shiral

Shiral,
Ive done the auto. with accessing the arps on a sound module with two boars the PA and a PSR 9000.
To be sure the PA was a bit easier to make work with the T. Rack, like equipment you know, but just took a little bit more figuring with the 9000.
Terry

Thanks Terry!

looks like this forum is our Saturday news paper :-)

Shiral

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