JRNYMAN wrote:Wow! That is amazing. The feature that impressed me the most was the sympathetic resonation. When you remind yourself that aside from the keys themselves, there are no moving parts to create the sounds. Technology has been very kind to the music industry and the instruments which make the music. Back in the day, when I owned the kit i listed above, everything had to be programmed on the fly. Sure there were a few presets but by and large, you were constantly turning knobs and adjusting sliders. Sequencing, midi, oversampling,.... those were foreign words to a keyboardist. Then, Yamaha changed everything when they released the DX-7. Gone were the days of lugging around numerous pieces of heavy, bulky equipment necessary to re-create the sounds required. That was the single biggest leap in the world of keyboards since the Fender introduced pressure sensitive keys a few years prior which, when compared to what Yamaha brought to the table, wasn't really that big of a breakthrough. The abilities of today's most tech. advanced keyboards are nothing short of amazing.slucero wrote:I have Synthogy Ivory on my Mac... amazing sounds...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCc8ALV93H0
It was nice to see realtime controls make their way back onto synths after a 10+ year absence. The DX-7, D-50 and M1 ruined things for a while.
Did you ever see Erik Norlander demo the Alesis Fusion a few years back? Off the top of my head, it had four different synthesis engines, arpeggiators and a recorder (as in recording, not the wind instrument), all under one hood, for roughly a grand. If I'd had a spare grand to play with, I'd have bought one.