Hardware advice needed for performance

One of my side careers is that I jazz around with a master keyboard cum Kurzweil piano module. I would like to be able to expand that microtonally, i.e. be able to define every single key centwise. And ideally, I would not want to buy a new additional keyboard, because I am used to the grand-like touch of my master keyboard keys, so a rack module with midi input connection would be ideal. I checked at my local store, and the only decent gadgets which I could find were the Roland Fantom series, be it keyboards or module. Does anybody have additional advice for me before I throw my money at Roland?
Thank you,
Michael

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Rolands tend to be among the least flexible, tuning-wise. Check this
site:

http://www.microtonal-synthesis.com/

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Michael Zapf <zapfzapfzapf@...> wrote:
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> One of my side careers is that I jazz around with a master keyboard
cum Kurzweil piano module. I would like to be able to expand that
microtonally, i.e. be able to define every single key centwise. And
ideally, I would not want to buy a new additional keyboard, because
I am used to the grand-like touch of my master keyboard keys, so a
rack module with midi input connection would be ideal. I checked at
my local store, and the only decent gadgets which I could find were
the Roland Fantom series, be it keyboards or module. Does anybody
have additional advice for me before I throw my money at Roland?
> Thank you,
> Michael
>
>
>
>
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used cars online search now
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> Rolands tend to be among the least flexible, tuning-wise.

I don't think that's true. Hardware synths are all about
the same these days at the manufacturer level, with the
possible exception of Kurzweil (though they're sort of just
coming back from the dead at the moment). No synth offers
what I'd call flexible tuning control. Virtually all Roland
instruments support arbitrary 12-tone tunings.

Microtonal-synthesis.com is a great (and the only) resource
for this stuff, but its grid doesn't capture the important
nuances of tuning capabilities/limitations, and sometimes the
information there is just wrong (obtaining it from
manufacturers is nearly impossible; manuals often don't
mention it; often the only way to find out is to test the
instrument in person, which, with the demise of showrooms,
is nearly impossible). And it only lists a minority of
available instruments.

-Carl