Johnny V. Lee

This looks potentially great. Thanks I will check this out today. Probably will get easier when I can get my hands on the new board. Thanks for the responses. I'm really LF2 getting deep into this.

Great question. I'm generally covering rock, but it could be anything from 60s to 2000s. I'm not too worried about the pianos and EPs, or even the organs. Even though I am not familiar with the different models of EPs, I know the K2700 already has great sounding patches for those things. I guess it's more about the synth and yeah I absolutely plan to learn the ropes. But let me try to think of an example to illustrate. On Styx's "Too Much Time on My Hands" there's a keyboard sound that comes in during the intro, right when the A chord hits on guitar. It sounds like a fairly basic synth sound, but it sounds like there's a phase shifter effect on it. Or something. On my guitar rig (currently using Helix and Variax for cover songs), I pretty much know how to find a sound that's pretty close and then tweak. On keyboard I intend to go through all the available patches and familiarize myself, but if I found something close I would not know the next step to tweaking it. Part of that is familiarizing myself with how the K2700 works, obviously, and I've read and watched some videos. But of course, the target audience of that type of thing is usually someone that's already familiar with the concepts, not a n00b.

Funny. Actually I started learning music by ear on piano. Also, my keyboard parts will be IN ADDITION to the main keyboard player. Think of me as an extra track.

Sorry guys. Should have mentioned I'm getting a Kurzweil K2700. I was originally looking at Korg Nautilus 61 key to save stage space, but I also want to use the kb to record in Pro Tools at home, so I wanted more controls than the Nautilus offered. The sounds on both are excellent, but I might give the edge to the Kurz.

I'm a guitarist who is just getting into keyboards, and I am going to be playing in a cover band. I'm also a software developer so technology doesn't intimidate me. I can learn how to use features on a keyboard. What's hard for me, though, is listening to a keyboard sound within a song and trying to figure out how to create a patch that sounds close to the original. I don't have the breadth of knowledge that experienced KB players do that enables them to hear a keyboard sound and think through how the musician created it. I can dial through prefab patches listening for similarities and I'm sure that's the starting point. But if I found something remotely similar, I would not know what I need to add or subtract to get closer to the sound I am hearing. SO Finally to my question: Do you know of any video or webpage tutorials that focus on this question? It's not very easy to Google this one. And maybe there's just no such thing, and the only answer is experience?