keyboards????

[perpetual shred]

i'm wanted to buy a keyboard but i know nothing about them. ( i can play keyboards moderatly well). just wonderin if anyone has any recomendations. i got about £400 to spend

[Axegrinder#9]

get hold of the Korg Triton, fairly versatile keyboard with good sounds... otherwise if you're willlingto dish out some more money, Kurzweil :down:

[perpetual shred]

cool thanks man, ill look into it.

[SuburbanCowboy]

The Triton models are excellent, professional quality keyboards. But if you wanna learn on something cheaper, Yamaha and Casio make great keyboards for anywhere between $100-$1000.

by the way, you should fix the link in your sig to exclude the "www." Adding that just directs you to the main dmusic page.

[Resiliance]

Be more specific... What are your requirements (keys, polyphony, etc...)...

Keyboard or Stage Piano? etc...

[apocalypse13]

I've got an old Casio. It was about 200-300 bucks I think. I hadn't played it in years until yesterday.

[SuburbanCowboy]

Casios are very underrated considering how much you can do with one and how cheap they are. I was playing around with one at my friend's house the other day after we had just finished smoking. This keyboard had a drum machine that would automatically synch up with any effects you were using. I'm talking trippy, dark sounding ****. They made me stop cause I was freaking them out.

But anyway.. he said his pop bought it for him and he only paid $200 for it. And it has EVERYTHING (even a USB output). I think I'm gonna pick one up

[psychodelia]

Casios aren't too bad for the money I guess, I don't mind the trippy stuff but I hate the piano tones.

Unfortunately it's the only portable keyboard I have right now.

[Axegrinder#9]

I personally have the Casio CTk-636, it's a fairly good keyboard.. though personally speaking I'd take a Kurzweil over anything, ones which actually let you play with the volume and pitch envelopes, filters and LFOs and ****

[perpetual shred]

i'm wantin sounds like stratovarius/nightwish ect for backing(choirs and strings and stuff) and stuff like dragonforce/strato for leads. i can play keyboards pretty well (i can shred) i just want some decent sounds coz my keyboards ****.

[Axegrinder#9]

invest in a Kurzweil man... or atleast a Korg

[splice]

on the subject of pianos and stuff......my family got a really really really old piano.......im tryin to learn to play it but any ways.....its a windsor....and i dk nothin bout pianos so is that a good brand or what?

[Resiliance]

invest in a Kurzweil man... or atleast a Korg

Why do you have this idea that Kurzweil's are better than Korgs?

I can assure you, once you get top of the line of both manufacturers, none is better than the other.

[seljer]

Aren't Korg Tritons SIGNIFICANTLY more than 400 pounds?

you can get a Roland Juno-D for something over 300, first slightly more serious keyboard I can think of.

[Resiliance]

Aren't Korg Tritons SIGNIFICANTLY more than 400 pounds?


The real ones are, yes... Not the low quality version, however it's called.


And the Juno D doesn't have hammer action... If that's an issue.

[perpetual shred]

i saw a korg triton on ebay for about 400 buy now, but it was second hand and id have to go and collect it coz they're to scared to post it!!

[Resiliance]

Watch out which triton it is though... There's a budget version and a "real" version... Also, I'd get an 88-keyed one definitely.

[Axegrinder#9]

well Resi I've actually played one of the Kurzweil, and I've played a Triton too... the Kurzweil actually has all the volume/pitch envelopes and filters, and LFOs and a host of other voltage controlling devices right there on the console.. I don't think that is the case with the Triton, at any rate you have a lot more tweaking capabilities in the Kurzweil I felt..

[Resiliance]

Well, you can't just go comparing brands like that. That's like saying Ibanez > Fender or something...

I personally think the hammer action system used on the Korg's is worth ten times more the system Kurzweil uses.

I don't know what Triton you tried, but I do think the proper one (my friends one...) has all of that too.

The sounds of the triton are better too imo, that's why Jordan mainly used triton soundbanks on his Kurzweil in the LSFNY tour :p:

Then again, all that crap doesn't matter to me. Give me a good piano, organ and rhodes sound with nice graded hammer action and 88 keys and I'm happy.