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An "add-on" arp machine.. in Fantom-S and Fantom-X · 23 Jan 2009

If you find one on ebay, grab the Kurzweil Expressionmate. It's an "arp machine," and it is triggered by an 18" metal strip that installs below the keyboard. To trigger an arp, just touch the strip anywhere.. If you're o...

PCMCIA in Fantom-S and Fantom-X · 23 Jan 2009

In case your computer store doesn't recognize "PC Card Adaptor" from the Roland manual, the official part is: PCMCIA Adapter for CompactFlash I/II You can usually find them in the laptop accessories. Rick

BIG scsi drives.. in Synthesizers and Keyboards · 14 Jan 2009

One of the reasons that SCSI drives are "bigger" than their SAS/SATA/IDE cuzzin's is because with SCSI, the intelligence and logic firmware is located on the drive itself (which is why you get more performance, the SCSI...

I'm FREEZIN' out here! in Synthesizers and Keyboards · 14 Jan 2009

Heya, If what you mean by "freezing," that one or more notes is being stuck "ON," I have found that it usually occurs when you edit a track, and sometimes you "chop off" the NOTE OFF info. EXAMPLE: If you play an arpeggi...

Style? in Synthesizers and Keyboards · 14 Jan 2009

I'm not quite sure what a "Style" is, but if it's similar to a Roland "Performance," what you need to do is be sure that you have "Accept MIDI patch change?" (or a similar wording) set to "YES," so that when you send new...

SRX-98 and 99 in Synthesizers and Keyboards · 14 Jan 2009

In case the mystery hasn't been cleared up by now, the SRX 98 and 99 boards were "giveaways" that intentionally only had samples of samples (if you'll pardon the pun). Never been for sale anywhere, they were included wit...

Re: SRX-4 Symphonic Strings...anyone? in Synthesizers and Keyboards · 3 Jul 2006

I have the SRX-04 (came with the XV-88), and I'm extremely unimpressed with the entire thing.. The sounds are very synthy, the dynamics are so-so, and it's really a lot a "partial" patches.. ppp pizz, mf pizz, ff pizz, e...