Kurzweil

Dear Denis,

I was glad to hear that the Kurzweil 2000 is totally retunable. I would
like to ask you another few questions about the tuning:

1) Can you tune the samples?

2) What the tuning precission?

3) How many midi chanels has it got? and do you know if they can be tuned to
different tunings or the tuning applies to all the chanels at the time?

**********************For Everybody:

Dear Tuners

Does any of you know a keyboard that has 16 or 32 midi chanels that
can be retuned independently, wether with the internal sounds or with your
own samples ???

Tony Salinas


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Tony Salinas <101610.3043@CompuServe.COM> wrote:

>Dear Gary morrison and tuners
>
> Last 5th of October you put a list of retunable keyboards from McLaren
>and said that the DX7 with E! board has a precission of 1024 steps/octave.
>
> I actually use it myself, and it has 4096 steps/octave, in other words
>steps of 0.29 cents.

While E! lets you set frequencies with a precision of 4096 steps/oct, in
fact there are only 1024 realizable steps. The values you enter are rounded
off. You can verify this by setting two keys to the same frequency and
listening to the beats as you adjust the setting of one of them. One would
want to take this quantization into account when trying to find the best
parameter value to approximate a particular interval. In other words,
calculating based on 4096 steps and then letting E! round off will not
always give the best 1024-step equivalent.
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