CompuServe Messages

>>TB or not TB… Yikes, I don't know, Dave. The biggest reason I didn't like the Monterey was the 32K of memory space it needed which I couldn't spare in the machine I needed it in. The second reason was I couldn't make it work, but I didn't seriously try after finding out about the memory space. The specs looked good, so I might try it again later in another machine. I heard from a trusted source some negative comments about the board, but I heard from another trusted source some positive comments. Who knows? (except for God, but He might not reply to this thread) And I've never heard anything about the Roland. One of my stand-alone synths is an old Roland and it sounds great next to a SB Pro. Actually, nearly anything sounds great next to a SB. <g> The TB Tropez doesn't sound bad at all. I hooked up some speakers from Cambridge SoundWorks (two satelites and a central bass unit) and the sound is incredible (compared to my ProAudio Spectrum 16!). It doesn't sound as good as my stand-alone Kurzweil synths, but then not much does. (The card does come with some fantastic patch editing software that you could lose yourself in for a year or two.) But it's hard to say what will fit your needs. I don't think I'm the best person to ask because I'm just playing for now and don't have to do any real work with this stuff. If I were to research this seriously, I might check some of the mags like Keyboard and Electronic Musician. I used to have subscriptions to several music magazines and they had _discriminating_ reviews on all things MIDI and musical. (Optics is eye-opening 🙂 JKJ