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Mr. Tunes · Post by **Mr. Tunes** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 3:41 pm

Squids wrote:So does that make me a big fatty? Is THAT what ur trying to say? (Imagine how much THAT would suck... if Yamaha decided to say "Why would you want a lil fatty when you can have a BIG fatty like the Motif?" Then a quote from me "I like em fat! I like em round!".

Haha that's good, real good. The Motif is definitely a fatass though - the last and only time I carried one it took two people to lug around. Not exactly gig friendly. I think I saw that CME is releasing a new controller with internal GM sounds - probably Yamaha's samples. Hopefully they got it right and made it light.

Anyways I just got my first laptop so I'll try to fit as many Sonik Synth samples as I can for going out and jamming. Then you take a Keystation 61ES for lightness and you're rocking out with some great sounds.

Squids · Post by **Squids** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:48 am

Yeah, that is the one main bummer about the Motif for me is that it is so heavy that I dread taking it on gigs. It would be so great to have a light 88 key. If they could somehow simulated the weighted feel without the weight!!!! Probably not going to happen though. Well, it is also bulkier than you'd think it needed to be. Cool design but I am not sure if the whole back thing that looks cool actually helps it when you want to carry it. But, yeah I agree it sounds great and the feel is just the best.

mlyon · Post by **mlyon** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:33 pm

Mr. Tunes wrote:
Squids wrote:Anyways I just got my first laptop so I'll try to fit as many Sonik Synth samples as I can for going out and jamming. Then you take a Keystation 61ES for lightness and you're rocking out with some great sounds.

Yep. Same here. I just bought KORE and have begun working on converting a number of my patches/performances from my 88-key workstation to soft-synth counterparts within KORE. My hope is to eliminate the need to lug around the 50+pound monster and use a lighter controller with KORE and my laptop. Initial tests are very promising, but I now need to figure out the best, lightest 88-key controller (preferably weighted) to use. I've got to go audition a few, I guess.

Cheers,
Mark

Mr. Tunes · Post by **Mr. Tunes** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:38 pm

mlyon wrote: Initial tests are very promising, but I now need to figure out the best, lightest 88-key controller (preferably weighted) to use. I've got to go audition a few, I guess.

Keystation 88ES or 88 Pro might be your best bet. Not sure how heavy the 88 Pro is. Also depends on what kind of music you're doing since the ES is semi-weighted but by the fact that you need 88 keys sounds like you're a real player

Check CME's line too. They might be light.
BTW how many keys are on most Rhodes?

Squids · Post by **Squids** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:45 pm

You know Sonic Reality actually did the piano sound for the M-Audio Keystation Piano. Well, it is based on the main Yamaha C7 triple strike that is in Sonik Synth 2 (called "the One"). Ironically I don't have the keyboard myself! (they should give me one don't you think?) But, I think it is lighter. Just different feel. I wish Yamaha would make a new version of their KX88 controller though but with the latest feel and slimmed down as much as possible.

Mr. Tunes · Post by **Mr. Tunes** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:52 pm

Squids wrote: Ironically I don't have the keyboard myself! (they should give me one don't you think?)

Just go in a store, grab one, walk out. When the cops try to arrest you whip out your shotgun microphone and say "I'm taking back what's mine Beeyhitches!"

Lawnmower Of The Damned · Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:57 pm

I'm getting a mental image of a cop sitting down and reading an old issue of FM. After a few minutes of flipping through the pages his face grows pale. "That's the bastard who stole a keyboard and squirted me with ink!".

Mr. Tunes · Post by **Mr. Tunes** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:02 pm

Lawnmower Of The Damned wrote:I'm getting a mental image of a cop sitting down and reading an old issue of FM.

You forgot to mention that he's on-duty eating a bucket of chicken in KFC while reading this. His name is Rabid and this whole thread was started by Keyser Soze

mlyon · Post by **mlyon** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:19 pm

Mr. Tunes wrote:
mlyon wrote: Initial tests are very promising, but I now need to figure out the best, lightest 88-key controller (preferably weighted) to use. I've got to go audition a few, I guess.
Keystation 88ES or 88 Pro might be your best bet. Not sure how heavy the 88 Pro is. Also depends on what kind of music you're doing since the ES is semi-weighted but by the fact that you need 88 keys sounds like you're a real player
Check CME's line too. They might be light.
BTW how many keys are on most Rhodes?

It varies, my old Stage was a 73-key version (before I sold it...

...don't go there, please).

Thanks for the rec on the Keystation and CME. I'm not opposed to semi-weighted (makes it easier to cover organ parts, but harder for pianos), but would probably go for weighted if all other things balance out.

Cheers,
Mark

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