rsk@pucc-j (Wombat) (03/21/86)
(From Keyboard, April '86) Roland RD-1000 Digital Piano ($3195) 88 wooden keys, 127 velocity levels with different harmonic structure; eight sounds including acoustic/electric piano, vibes, harpsichord; MIDI volume, keyboard zoning, zone transposition. Rack-mount version available at $1695. Ensoniq SDP-1 Sampled Digital Piano ($1295) 76 weighted keys, 12 multi-sampled presets, stereo output, stereo chorus, sostenuto pedal. Korg SG1 76-note keyboard, 4 sounds + add-on ROM for more. Technics SX-PX1M, SX-PX7, SX-PX5 Multiple samples of a 9-ft Steinway, using PCM. Sequential Prophet VS ($2599) Wavetable synthesis, four preset/user-defined waveforms/patch. Ensoniq ESQ-1 ($1295) Eight voice, 3 osc./voice; 32 multi-sampled waveforms. On-board seq. Kawai K3 ($1095) 33 waveforms/osc., 2 osc./voice. Korg EX-8000 ($945) Rack-mount DW8000. Korg DSS1 5-octave weighted keyboard, eight voices, 8 sec. of 12-bit sampling. Sequential Prophet-2002 ($2299) Rack-mount Prophet 2000. -- Rich Kulawiec pucc-j!rsk or rsk@asc.purdue.edu