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Old 13th March 2008, 07:35 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by BenJah View Post
I just don't get keyboards these days. What year is this again? This keyboard has 256megs of ram... What gives?
And this is what's limiting their sounds - ROM efficiency. They've downsamples their patches so that they can all fit inside the keyboard's ROM, or at least they've strongly limited the number of velocity layers, but why? As you've said, memory is cheap, so why not give it several gig of ROM and fill it up with great sounding patches? The Korg Oasys has done this and it shows. Great sounding keyboard.
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