Tom 14011 Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 Im looking to purchase a keyboard that will give me a classic piano sound but also some crzy electro sounds. How to i go about achieving this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufc4ever 0 Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 (edited) I'm not expert (or even enthusiast), but I thought they all had the normal piano sounds? Try this: http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/s....x=9&go.y=7 Edited October 18, 2006 by nufc4ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 Keyboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted October 18, 2006 Author Share Posted October 18, 2006 Yeh i think u can get the normal ones on everyone but i want some mad electro sounds too Midi style for Muse kinda stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 0 Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 What's your budget? A quality piano sound will require a waveform engine (so you are actually playing the same sound as a piano which has been recorded to high quality and reproduced) rather than a synthesis engine. On the other hand, electro sounds will be limited if you have waveform but no synthesis facility whereby you can load patches and tweak various parameters until you acheive the exact sound you are looking for. The Korg OASYS will do both to a supreme level, but it's £6,000! So it's really going to depend on what you have to spend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Patrokles Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 You're not really looking for a keyboard, you're looking for a synth. The best thing to do would be to make a DAW preferably with a laptop as the base system and buy a MIDI keyboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15347 Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 You're not really looking for a keyboard, you're looking for a synth. The best thing to do would be to make a DAW preferably with a laptop as the base system and buy a MIDI keyboard. I reckon so too. Mind, it's taken me several years to find a piano sound I'm actually satisfied with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Patrokles Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 You're not really looking for a keyboard, you're looking for a synth. The best thing to do would be to make a DAW preferably with a laptop as the base system and buy a MIDI keyboard. I reckon so too. Mind, it's taken me several years to find a piano sound I'm actually satisfied with. I like Steinberg's the Grand. Although Sonik Synth 2 and Hypersonic have decent piano sounds too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted October 18, 2006 Author Share Posted October 18, 2006 You're not really looking for a keyboard, you're looking for a synth. The best thing to do would be to make a DAW preferably with a laptop as the base system and buy a MIDI keyboard. I reckon so too. Mind, it's taken me several years to find a piano sound I'm actually satisfied with. I like Steinberg's the Grand. Although Sonik Synth 2 and Hypersonic have decent piano sounds too. What do you reckon the budget for above is? As i dont have a laptop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 172 Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 I'm not into keyboards but I'm often playing with my organ........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Patrokles Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 (edited) You're not really looking for a keyboard, you're looking for a synth. The best thing to do would be to make a DAW preferably with a laptop as the base system and buy a MIDI keyboard. I reckon so too. Mind, it's taken me several years to find a piano sound I'm actually satisfied with. I like Steinberg's the Grand. Although Sonik Synth 2 and Hypersonic have decent piano sounds too. What do you reckon the budget for above is? As i dont have a laptop Well, the advantage of using a PC/Mac for such things is that the software can be gotten ahold of for free. A decent MIDI keyboard wouldn't set you back an unreasonable amount, ie: http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~name~C...UF7~ID~4073.asp The major thing is to have a DAW capable of supporting all this at next-to-zero latency, and this is where the investment really comes in. If you want to gig with it, you'll need a laptop really. There are companies who build specialised DAWs, or you can build your own (I did). But it'll set you back a fair amount either way, especially since you'll need an audio interface such as Edirol's DA-2496 and ideally a pair of studio monitors (speakers, not TVs). It'd set you back around about a grand for a worthwhile system, although it's a very good long-term investment. I build my desktop DAW about 2 years ago and it can still handle everything I need it to do. EDIT: Important to note that a DAW basically replaces an entire recording studio, to an extent, and with a few additional pieces of hardware, so it's a grand well spent. You're talking multi-track recording, effects processing, mastering, live performance, synths, various other VSTs, guitar signal processing, etc, etc. Edited October 18, 2006 by Patrokles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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