Biggles

The Korg forum is massive with 81 different sections. All be it a lot are related to legacy products

Lightweight at 8.4 lbs there can be only one! Korg Kross 2, a big plus is that it can run on batteries. No speakers in-built but add a Boss Katana amp, which also runs on batteries. This is small yet packs enough W for a small venue and jamming. I used this mobile setup for two years and it is vastly superior IMO to anything from Casio.

You found the best Great progress BTW For others Newbies https://www.justinguitar.com He is also on Youtube. Worth also seeking out his interaction with Andertons Music Shop as he gives many tips and tricks whilst teaching The Captain

It is about attitude. Meaningless trivia, and juvenile antics.

Yet the guys more front and centre and in the audience eye compared to the keyboardist who is at the back or side, by their positioning the front and centre guys display their choice of Instrument without resorting to lengths of Duct or Gaffer Tape. A Fender Stratocaster or Telecaster or Gibson Les Paul or SG are so Iconic to a level that no Keyboard can even remotely compete with. Sorry to upset the apple cart, but that is reality.

Look at a Studiologic Compact Light in weight and physical size. 88 note keybed which is semi weighted with aftertouch so it may be an ideal compromise keyboard.

If you want to go the arranger route a Korg Pa1000 would be a better choice as its recording is superior and the Styles are less cheesey and in any case you can turn off the Style elements so you just have the drum or drum and bass. It also has an inbuilt MIDI to Style converter bot. In the Korg there is the Songbook feature where you can customise each of your repertoire songs and save them in the User bank for quick call up. Want a Setlist, it does that to, create whatever you want from your Songbook in the order you want them, there is even software to do all this on a PC.

Looks like it is still cheaply made, I cannot denegrate just how flimsy and nasty the controls are on the 2X and these new models look exactly the same. My Compact 2X has burnt out after four years. I would not waste any more cash on any Studiologic products.

The price I quoted in UKP was current which is more now than it was pre Covid

P125 £489 P225 £799 Quite a hike up in price for what, very Minor changes.

Zero interest in any other section. Even less interest in Advertisements for any USA Company. Not everyone lives in the USA.

Watch this, it is one I put together about my Grandfather. It is intended for my younger relatives who will inherit all my Family History research and it is one of many I have planned. Created using video editing software, not iMovie as I do not rate it. Final Cut Pro or Da Vinci Resolve is better but you can do everything easily on an iPad using Luma Fusion. As to how to put everything together, that is not a five minute learning task, it take time to learn how to shoot video, ie the various shots to capture and their length. How to assemble the media is an art in itself. Been editing video for over 30 years and for ten of those I taught it on a free lance basis.

Go to NAMM and go Shopping

Yamaha’s will kill you. The brain of a Yamaha rider is usually about 20 yards behind the bike, just before the biker enters free fall going past the bike head first before coming to an abrupt halt. Buy something sensible and comfortable.

$180 for the kit would be a maybe, $1800 is taking the pith

When I was at senior school I started my Bucket List, its changed a bit over the years. I wanted to get a Private Pilots license, 30 years later I did. I wanted to own a Jaguar car, did that, but not exactly the one I really wanted which was an XK120 Once I learned how to ski, I wanted to ski St Anton in Austria and Aspen in the USA, both ticked off (St Anton was better) I learned how to ride a motorcycle, then wanted to ride it at 150 mph, I did that in Germany. I wanted to swim the Great Barrier Reef, did that too To see the Northern Lights, one day perhaps Visit Machu Pichu, no chance now, I’d die through lack of oxygen I wanted to set foot in every Continent To visit Venice To stay in Raffles Hotel To ride The Rockie Mountaineer in Canada Currently the most important is to see my Grandchildren graduate from University

Now considering the new Roland DP, home use only, like the arranger and inbuilt rhythms features. Thoughts?

When are you folks going to learn that there is no such thing as a wrong note. Only a note played in the wrong order.

American Producers started Scriptwriters on the Dumbed Down Audience route. If we try to watch an American so called comedy of the last thirty years it is cringingly bad. Ever since Dumb and Dumber, Me myself Irene, anything with Will Farrell, The Hangover Series. This list goes on and on and on as to being unwatchable.

Forget tech, computers, Apps, Documents. I use the tech from the 80’s an old Filofax with an A2Z index. User names and passwords stored there. I use a combi of random letters, numbers, capitals plus where allowed special characters So no RubyTuesday or AmiRose as my passwords

Very sad. 78 years old, he contracted bacterial meningitis according to UK press

From your use of £1000 then I presume you are in the UK. A visit to a nearish music store will help. Rimmers have a very large piano showroom in Bolton and PMT in Salford plus their other stores are well worth checking Bonners of course near London I would suggest if they could up their budget then there are two Kawai models to consider at c£1200. The Roland FP 90X is c£1500 so maybe a bit of a stretch but it does have the PHA50 action. Right on budget at Andertons is a possible wildcard, Numa X Piano 88 @ £1000