yamaha NOCTURNE
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one of the problems i see with the nocturne for the price is that it appears you can't add any voice bank cards to it. with my s90es i have added three voice bank cards, two of them keyboard cards, and it has increased my polyphony by two or three times- i very rarely notice any dropouts.
the thing about polyphony is that it's not just about how many notes you can play at once. remember that sometimes a note might require more than one polyphony "slot" (don't know the proper terminology). so if you play a really rich layered piano/string sound, you might in reality only have 32 or 16 true notes you can play.
i would hold off on the nocturne unless you really want to spend the money. for that kind of money the motif es and a nice pair of studio monitors would be my choice in the yamaha line up.
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by Scot Ranney on 01/10/2008, 09:09
or, are you saying that there are no layered sounds so polyphony stays at 64 instead of being reduced to 32?
folks- blake <i>the</i> yamaha keyboard rep for at least west of the rockies, a lot of the sample melodies and even some of the patches in many yamaha keyboards come straight from him. he lives in my town and we run into each other every once in a while, he now runs the jam session that i ran for almost six years. last but not least, he's a monster player. if you can find some of his stuff out there it's worth listening to.
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by Scot Ranney on 01/10/2008, 11:05
good luck --- charlie
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