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  Roland\'s DisCover 5

The Roland DisCover 5 RealTime Orchestrator is the world\'s first performance keyboard that lets musicians manipulate Standard MIDI Files (SMFs) on the fly! DisCover 5 also features professional vocal harmony technology with over 90 presets for creating harmonies plus the ability to display lyrics and chords on the LCD and Video Output! More than anything, the DisCover 5 is just plain a whole lot of fun! Whether you want to mimic opera, or sing the best of the Bee Gees, the DisCover 5 has you \"covered.\"

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Software Update
Kontakt was designed by Native Instruments to be the most powerful sampler ever created. Kontakt fuses an innovative design with an advanced sampling engine. The result is an inspiringly fast and intuitively flexible sampler with exceptional sound quality. Available as a free download from their website is an update to version 1.2!

1.2 Upgrade Features:
• Direct from Disk (DFD) option: The additional DFD-extension is available separately on the NI website
• Release Trigger - the release of a note can now triggers a group
• Key Activator - activate groups by a key of the keyboard
• Controller Activator - activate groups by a MIDI controller
• New \"Note-On Counter\"
• \"Cycle Round Robin\" Function allows for consecutive cycling through groups upon keystrokes
• \"Cycle Random\" allows for random cycling through groups for playback
• Rescaler Value Display
• KONTAKT\'s master level and master pan can be controlled with MIDI-controllers 7 and 10
• DXi 2.0 support (Win only)

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