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Post by gwenhwyfaer on Jan 31, 2007 12:07:39 GMT
Lionstracs MediaStation X76 - my head tells me that I could get to the same place by buying a decent controller keyboard, a new CPU and a silent case for one of the PCs lying around here, but my heart says "gearlust"... (On the other hand, part of the point of the Fusion, for me, was that it can't be replicated with a PC; if it weren't its own platform I probably wouldn't have bought it... I probably couldn't have afforded it.)
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Post by mps on Jan 31, 2007 14:02:59 GMT
What is it? A thing like Receptor? VST hosting keyboard?
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neomad
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Post by neomad on Jan 31, 2007 21:03:48 GMT
Seems a kind of NEKO !
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Post by Hollow Sun on Jan 31, 2007 23:46:50 GMT
The Italians often make products like this ... whacky off-the-wall stuff that is often very good - excellent even - but rarely stands a chance of major, international success for whatever reason.
Going to Frankfurt Messe can be an eye-opener - if you venture outside the main hi-tech halls, you can see all these amazing button-laden keyboards from some very obscure companies you've never heard of. Wersi, for example - they had some astonishing technology ... very high polyphony and an outrageous proprietary lossless data compression method (like 100:1 or something - in other words, their 32MB ROM had the equivalent of 320MB of samples ... or something) but the products were based around their 'arranger' organs (with a preponderence towards Viennese Waltzes and Bavarian accordian music) ... go figure! But the technology could trounce many of the majors'!
Typically, they die (or rather, don't get started) in the wider world because of their home organ origins and a lack of international marketing muscle by the manufacturer.
Steve
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