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Conference napalm::commusic_v1

Title:* * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * *
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Created:Thu Feb 20 1986
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Number of topics:2852
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2161.0. "Roland KR33" by TRCO01::FINNEY (Keep cool, but do not freeze) Mon Nov 13 1989 22:17

    Any words of wisdom, bouquets or brickbats on the Roland KR-33 keyboard?
                                                                    
    
    Scooter
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2161.1Indeed, a popular item! 8^)NRPUR::DEATONFri Dec 22 1989 13:400
2161.2A bit on the KR33NRPUR::DEATONFri Dec 22 1989 13:4822
RE KR33

	I actually saw one of these the other day and remembered someone asking 
about them.

	It is a consumer-oriented keyboard using (I believe) Roland's Structured
Adaptive Synthesis.  Or it may be some form of sampling as I do seem to remember
it having some other sounds (organ?  Choir?).  It houses on-board 
speakers/amplification.

	Anyway, it sounded o.k..  Better than the consumer keyboards you'd find
at Lechemere's, but not as good as a pro keyboard.  I would venture to guess 
that it supports a fairly minimal MIDI implementation and would serve as a
entry-level MIDI controller.  I didn't catch the price.

	Unless it was priced fairly aggressively (under $1000 list), I'd 
probably not recommend it to anyone.  If its all one could afford for someone
who absolutely NEEDED a piano sound/feel, it'd probably do o.k..  But for some
one building a MIDI system, they could probably do better.

	Dan