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- From: scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
- Subject: Re: K2000R. You don't scare me. Nyah!
- Message-ID: <166@bbx.basis.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 05:24:11 GMT
- References: <BzHpsC.LE.1@cs.cmu.edu> <92Dec21.184528.24662@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA
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- In article <92Dec21.184528.24662@acs.ucalgary.ca> bstone@acs.ucalgary.ca (Blake Stone) writes:
- >> The K2000 sampling boards are definitely not available yet.
- >
- >Sigh. This is unfortunately true, Kurzweil confirms that they
- >are in the final beta-testing phase for the 2.0 ROMs (the
- >hardware for the sampling option was final quite a while back).
- >So the ship date remains at "any day now".
-
- Gee, if they're anything like us, they'll complete this *exhaustive*
- beta test with numerous carefully selected sites beating the hell out
- of it with absolutely *no* reported problems in the final 60 days. Then,
- the day it ships, an in-house engineer just goofing around will find two
- major bugs. Halt production.
-
- The O/S in my K2000R doesn't recognize the "local keyboard channel"
- parameter. This means that the octave +/- buttons don't work nor
- is it possible to use setups. For cryin' out loud, setup mode has
- its own button on the front panel. Fortunately I don't really need
- the local keyboard feature but I discovered this problem in the
- first hour of using my K2000R. Also, the occasional stray pixels
- on the LCD make me nervous. Considering the complexity and
- sophistication of the K2000R, I'm surprised it works as well as it
- does and so far it hasn't let me down. I've used it in live performance
- felt confident with it in spite of its quirks.
-
- --
- Scott Amspoker |
- Basis International, Albuquerque, NM | Too bad ignorance isn't really
- | bliss. Then it could be outlawed.
- scott@bbx.basis.com |
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