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From: stevep@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Steve Paine)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: K1,D5 and a little bit of confusion.
Message-ID: <382@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
Date: 6 Oct 89 12:39:07 GMT
Organization: RT6115, BTRL, Martlesham Heath, England
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Hi there.
	I know youve argued about the Roland D5 and Kawai K1 before but I need  a little help from my friendly net users. (grovel off!)

	Basically I have a few questions.

1) Does multitimbral mean I can play (with an 8 voice multitimbaral machine) the full range of 8 voices with 16 note polyphony at the same time? My first 
thought is that i'm going to have to sacrifice some of the polyphony to get more voices. Is this the case?

2) With regard to the D5's percussion section, does it count as one voice. 
i.e can I play seven other voices along with all the percussion sounds. 
(I think I'm getting more confused by the minute here!)

3) Wait for it... which would be the best machine to buy taking the following into consideration:
	a) It would be a first 'real' keyboard for me. (Casio had a fair 
	amount of trade from me a few years ago!) 
	b) The technicalities of programming voices should'nt prove a problem 
	as I can pick that sort of thing up fairly easily.
	c) I dont want some 'all singing, all dancing' 'beatbox' thats 
	going to be impressive for a week and then useless to me 
	(not neccesarily out of date) within no time.
	d) I intend to start piano lessons at the same time as getting the 
	keyboard, so something to practice on between lessons would be nice. 
	(P.S. Which has the nicest sounding piano on it?)
	e) I have an Amiga which i'd like to use to write some music 
	with. (Just for fun.)
	f) I havent got a reverb/effects unit.
	g) I havent got a drum machine.

Any responses would be greatly appreciated and also any old D5 vs K1 mail would be nice. Thanks a million.

- Steve.
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