Keyboards anyone?

On the subject of keyboards and de-tuning I recall an amusing story from the archives of the BBC.

BBC Broadcasting House in London has a concert hall right in the middle of the original building (it has an impressive pipe organ as well). There was also a full size concert grand piano which was on one side of the stage. The story goes that three men showed up in a van and persuaded the security guard that they had come to take the grand piano away for "tuning". The security guys helped the trio remove the piano into their van and waved them off. The loss of the piano was only noticed just before the next performance.

    Yes, I wonder if someone ran after them with the piano stool

Hooray for keyboardists!

I dunno, dont really care. I just want something analog, in the 5-600 dollar range and decent (I realize I probably wont get any really cool classic analog synth for that little money, but Id like for it to not be sh*t either) So a newer analog synth would be fine.

Minimalist777 wrote: I dunno, dont really care. I just want something analog, in the 5-600 dollar range and decent (I realize I probably wont get any really cool classic analog synth for that little money, but Id like for it to not be sh*t either) So a newer analog synth would be fine.

|f you want a real analog (not a digital reincarnation) go for DaveSmith Evolver, it's cheap , kraftwerkish and awesome. Also, you may want to try MFB Synth or SynthLite (poor man's minimoog). There are numerous TB303-clones on the market both new and used, most notably MAM. Technosaurus is also worth investigating. You can squeeze some astonishing sounds from these little machines.

For that price range you can find some virtual analog polys: Korg MicroKorg or MS2000 or Alesis Micron/Ion they're both awesome machines. Novation (cheaper) and Access (cooler) have some nice thingies too. Or E-MU VintageKeys if you don't mind digital heart of the machine.

My keyboardist have a Korg N5. I think is good, but i'm a guitar player

Edited by Marcos - February 22 2007 at 14:04

Oberheim OB-12, usually played through my guitar practice amp (Vox Pathfinder)

PROGMAN wrote: I think Creamware do a lot of Analog Synth revivals, but in their own designs: based on e.g. Minimoog and Prophet V. There's a Music and Sound Engineers mag called SOS (Sound on Sound) and features many Music Equipment and Software, even Synths.

KansasRushDream wrote: I have a Korg DW-8000, a Roland JD-800, and a Korg TR, but I am still looking for more! My next purchase will probably be a Yamaha.

Now where's that jealous emoticon?

I how I wanted DW-8000...everything that my Poly-800 is not

I also heard that JD-800 have amazing sounds and amazing arpegiator, is that true?

I have a lovely Technics PCM C300