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From: rmp@ulysses.UUCP (Reuben Prichard)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: PURCHASING HELP!
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 20:32:32 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 18 20:32:32 1985
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	I am in the process of purchasing a synth. for  my eight year old
son to keep up his interest in music (At least thats what I keep telling
my wife!). Being new to the world of electronic keyboard, and after
having done a fair amount of research on the subject, I have come
up with the following two configurations that, to me, seem to be 
reasonable. They are as follows:

	Synth.		Sequencer		Drum Maching
	=======		===========		==============

1.	Yamaha DX21	Yamaha QX7		Yamaha DX11/15 or
						ROLAND-TR-707
						(Not to sure which one)
2.	KORG 8000	KORG QSD-1		 


	I am kind of leaning toward (2) since people that have had an 
opportunity to play with pre-release versions of the hardware really say 
good things about them and I have played a DW-6000 and have found it a lot
easier to program than the DX21.

	Before I drop a bundle on the above hardware I would like some
(YOUR) educated opinions  on my choices. In general and in particular,

Questions!

	1) What is a reasonable amount of internal capacity (note capacity)
for a sequencer if you are going to feed it both DRUM machine and Synth.
input?

	2) How about the DRUM MACHINE choices?? I like the features of the 
TR-707 (Graphic display for editing).

	3) Any suggestions as to the best place to purchase the equipment??
Mail orders is fine with me! I think that 30% off retail is about
right! (HOWEVER The less the better!!!!!!!!).

					Reuben M. Prichard
					c/o AT&T Bell Labs
					600 Mountain Ave
					Murray Hill N.J.
						07974

					mentor!rmp