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Comments About the Sounds:
Early Yamaha AWM... piano is ok but guitars suck. Good mallets and percussive stuff. The main reasons I got this thing though are 1)))it's really compact but loaded with fun features 2)))the styles are really well programmed, with 7 parts per style...each style has an intro, A section, B section and ending. A and B sections are typically 4 or 8 measures long and quite interesting. You have a choice of small or large arrangements within each section, which adds variety. But the coolest feature has got to be 3)))this thing transmits the styles via MIDI!!! I pump these babies into my Korg Trinity or Kurzweil PC88 and they sound KILLER! Huge flexibility here, because you can get zillions of variations by programming your external synth with any sound you want and let the styles fly. My fave trick is to set all parts to the same piano sound (except for bass and drums). Instant piano trio. Very cool. Great MIDI implementation overall, plus a few cool features l! ike auto harmonize.