Thanks! + MR-Rack MTS

>Brian says:
>Ensoniq builds reliable products. They sound pretty
>good. Other companies have flashier technology,
>but Ensoniq's synths sound about as excellent as
>anything out there.

*Blush* thanks so much! I actually had nothing to do with the ASR-10 since
I haven't been here that long, and have passed this message along to Bill
Mauchly and the others who made it what it is today.

While I'm here though, there's a new synth we've just announced called the
MR-rack, which is the first synth shipped with my Midi Tuning Standard
implementation. Both the bulk dump and note-change messages are supported,
and the product's been tested with JICalc on the Mac and Midi Tuning Wrench
under Windows. These messages affect a single user tuning table in RAM.
Thanks to David Doty and Carter Scholz for assistance and feedback during
its development. The only bad news is that the ASR-10 can't get an MTS
retrofit.

One area which has been crying out for the note-change ability is the middle
east. The keyboards there have a series of buttons which tune the
corresponding note down a preset interval. We hope to have third-party
support for this later in the year.


regards,

Steve Curtin
Ensoniq Corp


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