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Title: The keyboard thread Post by: raydeen on December 17, 2005, 06:30:47 AM I was feeling left out because I can't play guitar (well, shitty guitar at best) and keys and drums are my main 'ting. Below is my early Christmas present to myself.
(http://www.sweetwater.com/images/items/MS2000Blk-large.jpg) I went in to the local Sam Ash to look at a Microkorg, but this thing was sitting there, all used and the last of it's breed, saying 'Take me home for $549'. I did, and I'm in love. Great analog sound and a heck of a vocoder. Spent the first two hours working out Funkytown. :roll: My rig now consists of the Korg MS2000B (above), Korg Poly 6, Moog Opus 3, Ensoniq KS-32 and EPS, Roland JX-8P, Casio CZ 101, Simmons SDS 400, and several drum machines and effects racks along with the laptop running Cakewalk Project 5 and quite a few soft synths. Now all I need is Time. AND I SHALL RULE THE WOOOOOOOORLD!!!! (best interpreted with the voice of Simon Bar Sinister). Eh, 5 years from now I'll still be playing Funkytown for myself and drooling like an idiot in the darkness of my room. Wife and kid will be long gone. Title: Re: The keyboard thread Post by: stray on December 17, 2005, 08:46:11 AM I mess with soft synths, but not as much as I used to. And at the moment, I don't have a decent controller anyways.
I've pretty much acquired all of my dream equipment as far as guitars go (yeah right...), and after I purchase some new mics, I'll probably mess with software again. Definitely wouldn't buy keyboards though. Software flexibility spoils, and at a much cheaper price. About the only real/hard version of a key instrument I want is an upright. [edit] Good luck on the "time" thing though. That's nice set of gear you have...Hope it's not collecting dust! Title: Re: The keyboard thread Post by: Sky on December 19, 2005, 06:36:19 AM An upright is on my list, as well. I'm pretty crappy on keyboards, but my girlfriend used to play a lot and I want to encourage her (and I play a lot of songs that require keys). When I was guitar shopping, she shopped keyboards but hates all the electric ones. All of them. I tend to agree, there's nothing like mechanical action, I grew up under my grandmother's keyboard, with my hippy uncle playing lots of Doors and Zep.
I would go for a vibrophone or a mellotron, though! |