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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Keyboard layout question

From: tronbros@aol.com
Date: 2009-01-30

In a message dated 30/01/2009 13:53:43 GMT Standard Time, john.wright@consona.com writes:
Just wondering. Why did the M400, and others, end up with a 35 note
keyboard? Was it a carryover from the Chamberlins? Apart from a
Tron, I don't think I've ever seen another 35 note keybord/midi
controller.
It's all to do with recordings from life and natural ranges rather than the multisampled, processed, tuned, re-tuned and if all else fails, invented sounds found in keyboards of other persuasions.  Of course I could be wrong!
 
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