RE: Kawai K11

>And/or could anyone recomend a keyboard under $1000 that is
>micro-programmable and complies to the MIDI tuning-dump standard?

>Jason Glover

I've been interested in exactly the same question, except for the
tuning-dump aspect. Apparantly, the Ensoniq EPS would qualify, but it's been
out of production for a couple of years. I went to a music store, and the
salespeople I talked to pointed me to Korg, which makes marvelous
synthesizers with amazingly realistic timbres (it's been a long time since I
played with synthesizers). It has only one programmable tuning, where each
of the twelve notes can be detuned 100 cents. The meager selection of
internal tunings does not even include meantone.

However, I found a way to get the $700 Korg to do 22tet in the store. I set
the programmable tuning to a "pythagorean tuning" based on 709-cent fifths.
I then split the five-octave keyboard in the middle, and transposed the
bottom half up two and a half acoustical octaves. This gave me two and a
half octaves of 22tet, with a few redundant notes. I bet the next people who
tried out the keyboard were annoyed! Hopefully, I can hook up my roommate's
Yamaha DX as a slave via MIDI and have five octaves of 22tet. (?)

I want to hear what others have to say on this question before I make the
purchase. Although 22tet is my main interest, and should be easily
realizable on a guitar (my main instrument), I'd love to be able to play
with tunings more freely than the Korg allows, if at all possible.

Thanks,
Paul Erlich


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