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by chrisrnps » Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:32 am
"Hi:
My dream MIDI keyboard is a musical keyboard that has 88 keys and relies purely on digital AFM [Advanced Frequency Modulation] synthesis [not sample playback or analog synthesis] to generate tones. It has a headphone jack. It can store and produce .mid files. In addition, it is able to somehow record and store songs digitally [as .wav files] so I can directly burn them into a CD. It has an internal HDD. It also has a CD burner/player which can record/playback any and all formats of CD-sized discs. It also has an external HDD which I can use to import/export to/from the keyboard and my PC.
In addition, the keyboard’s synth is purely-hardware [not a softsynth] and freshly generates its tones [i.e. it does not use any sampling or sampled sounds to any extent]. The synth is purely-digital too. The only part of the audio that is analog is after it is passed through the DAC. My dream keyboard is also completely free of any clipping or aliasing in any and all parts of the signal chains.
The AFM synth in my dream MIDI keyboard has as many operators, voices, channels [OPL3 has 18 channels, OPL2 has 9], voices-per-channel, and operators-per-voice as physically-possible with the size of my keyboard being the same as that of the current highest-quality keyboard available.
This keyboard also has a display screen as well as controls, settings, and effects which are as sophisticated as that of the most advanced keyboard.
The audio from my dream keyboard is stereo but it sounds exactly the same in both the L and R channels. When audio is played back, the audio signals in the left and right channel are exactly the same in terms of amplitude, frequency, and phase. There are no settings to change this.
Last but not least, my dream MIDI keyboard makes the most efficient use of Realtime Convolution and Modulation.
I would like to make karaoke tracks using this hypothetical keyboard and then burn the karaoke songs into CDs.
Sadly my dream MIDI keyboard is way too good to ever be true because no one is willing to design or build such an excellent keyboard for any reasonable price.
It’s possible for me to hire someone to make the keyboard but the costs will likely be something only Bill Gates, if anyone, can afford.
Regards,
Green Xenon"