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Topic: Question about keyboards Posted: February 24 2010 at 19:55
I am about to buy a keyboard and start taking lessons. I think I'll end up getting a Yamaha PSR E323. The point is do keyboards come with a pitch bend? Or I have to buy a synth to get that feature? I am a total newbie as regards this.
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Posted: February 24 2010 at 19:59
It depends entirely on what keyboard you get. Some do, some don't. Leccy pianos tend not to come with pitch bends, but with your run-of-the-mill home keyboard, about 50% of them come with pitch bends. More of them actually nowadays. Just check the specs of the one you're looking at, it should be listed if it has one.
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Posted: February 24 2010 at 20:18
The problem is I don't have the slightiest idea of how do you say "pitch bend" in spanish...
Casio and Yamaha are the cheapest ones here in Argentina but the second one is said to have better sound quality. I ve been advised to start with those brands and if I am totally into keyboard playing after a few months , get a synth.
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Posted: February 24 2010 at 20:22
crimson87 wrote:
The problem is I don't have the slightiest idea of how do you say "pitch bend" in spanish...
Casio and Yamaha are the cheapest ones here in Argentina but the second one is said to have better sound quality. I ve been advised to start with those brands and if I am totally into keyboard playing after a few months , get a synth.
Thanks for the info
My brother started with a Roland XP-something. It has a pitch-bend, though not sure how that'll help you
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Posted: February 24 2010 at 21:01
I liked what I 've heard on that video. Roland is a little bit more expensive than Yamaha I can probably wait and buy one in the US it would be much cheaper.
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Posted: February 25 2010 at 16:26
Hey... in spanish is also known as "Bend Pitch" but I remember the people on the store were not keyboards tenchincians so I end up asking for "teclados con palanca de tonos"... and then they get it... I have a Yamaha PSR E413... it has also two knobs for controlling effects and some fancy things... it's a great keyboard and is very cheap in comparisson to a synth... check it out...
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Posted: February 25 2010 at 18:10
The problem is that whoever I tell I am going to buy a Yamaha they say : "that toy!!! thats for little kids. You should buy a Korg instead". I have the money to get a korg but it's really expensive. Specially if you take into consideration that I haven't played a single note.
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Posted: February 25 2010 at 19:00
It's better that you have something that feels like a piano to start off with, and keyboards that offer both 88 weighted keys AND pitch bend are very expensive. If you find that you keep studying and you enjoy it, then you can get a very inexpensive M-Audio or E-Mu 37-key controller later on, which will have pitch bend and modulation as well..That can be like your Minimoog that you stack on top of your piano. ;-)
Also look at Casio Privia. They are great piano keyboards, have lots of great sounds, and are also much lighter than Yamahas. (and very inexpensive). Don't hesitate to get one used off of Ebay.
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Posted: February 26 2010 at 11:19
jplanet wrote:
It's better that you have something that feels like a piano to start off with, and keyboards that offer both 88 weighted keys AND pitch bend are very expensive. If you find that you keep studying and you enjoy it, then you can get a very inexpensive M-Audio or E-Mu 37-key controller later on, which will have pitch bend and modulation as well..That can be like your Minimoog that you stack on top of your piano. ;-)
Also look at Casio Privia. They are great piano keyboards, have lots of great sounds, and are also much lighter than Yamahas. (and very inexpensive). Don't hesitate to get one used off of Ebay.
My brother started with the Roland XP-10, and now has a pretty good Casio Privia in which he mainly plays only piano.
This is the one he has:
Edited by The Quiet One - February 26 2010 at 11:21
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Posted: February 26 2010 at 16:06
crimson87 wrote:
The problem is that whoever I tell I am going to buy a Yamaha they say : "that toy!!! thats for little kids. You should buy a Korg instead". I have the money to get a korg but it's really expensive. Specially if you take into consideration that I haven't played a single note.
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Nope... don't believe them... if someone tell you that Yamaha is for kids, you should tell them back that David Paich of Toto uses Yamaha... and he is the master...!!! look.. the keyboard that I link above is great for start. I spend like $300 on it and is great for prog rock... easy to program, easy to play and the sound, even if they are not as great as a workstation, is enough for the job. I used it by an entire year in live performances with my band... and works fine... even some sound were better than the workstation I have now... (I'm too lazy to build up the right sounds...)
if you want it for learning and save some money... Yamaha is ideal... Casio is mediocre and Korg, Roland and Kurzwail are too damn expensive man...!!! Yamaha is for me, the best choice...
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Posted: March 22 2010 at 02:13
yo FL Studio 8 gives you your pitch bend with five mouse clicks and it's freeware as long as you don't save the project (You can even output the song to a wave file)
go figure. It's how we underground DJs make techno these days.
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