From dsurkin@optonline.net Thu Jan 14 17:53:00 2010
Subject:Ventura technology

Tokai brochures on earlier models referred to maximum polyphony of 64 notes, which implied to me that it used sampling (like early digital clones) rather than modeling (like VB3, Daversi, N-I B4). To my ears, modeling has produced better results.

Reading the material on the TX5, including the comment that the user can choose between 82 and 91 wheels, implies that they have changed to modeling technology. Can anyone confirm that? Did they develop their own software, or did they license something already on the market (for example, Hamichord, made by Pari.E., uses VB3).

--Dean L. Surkin