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2 minutes ago, dalpozlead said:
So… After I sold my JV-1080 I`ve decided to get a FA-06 to maintain the same waveforms in a more modern board…, I`m very used to program Roland synths and, excluding the bad keybed action, I like the FA very much.
Now I need another controller to substitute my CP-33… I`m definitely focusing on synth playing and will retire the old & hard action from Yamaha`s controller fir a while, but trying to find a decent action on a controller with 76 keys and joystick (don`t need wheels on it) its hard… specially after I`ve tested the FA-07 and felt the much better action compared to the FA-06.
The quickest way to solve this would be selling the FA-06 and getting a new FA-07, but that would will cost me much on today`s market value, so I`m still trying to find a solution…
Is this the search for the holy grail? Should I give up?
Tks!
Maybe look around for a dedicated hardware controller from the 80s/90s like a Yamaha KX76 or Roland A70 or pick up an older 76 key workstation (like a Roland JV1000 or a Korg X2)- any of those options will run you between $300-$600.
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2 hours ago, Moonglow said:
I was surprised to see that Jonathan was still using his Jupiter-80 with Journey. I was fully expecting to see a Fantom on top of his V-Grand.
I wonder if he has updated his rig for this tour? I guess I'll find out next Sunday when I go to see them at the Prudential Center
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I think for now I'm going to hold off on buying anything new and see how things work out with the bookshelf speakers, and if I need more power I can always upgrade down the road, using the stuff I have already will only cost me like $15 in cables
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44 minutes ago, Docbop said:
Playing with drums you're going to need some volume and ability to cover some space. Me if I was playing in that situation I'd probably go with a couple powered small PA speakers like QSC K2. or similar brand type powered monitors. For my home setup I use studio monitors now a large pair of those might be able to keep up with drums depending on how loud your brother plays. A pair of Yamaha HSC8 might keep up again depending on your brother.
My philosophy for when we jam could also be for both of us to wear headphones connected to the kurzweil or the amp (and a splitter) and just have the volume low enough so that we can also hear the drums
45 minutes ago, Docbop said:Last option maybe you can trade your brother in for a nice looking cello player.
Not a terrible idea, though that might make family functions a little awkward
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41 minutes ago, Moonglow said:
BTW, I’m a little late with this, but welcome to the forum GotKeys! I’ve enjoyed reading your posts. 👍
Thanks for the warm welcome, I've found this forum incredibly welcoming and the people here incredibly knowledgeable and helpful
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3 minutes ago, MrVegas said:
My new Key Largo has two inputs on the back for a volume pedal. It has one input for Volume Pedal Send and one for Volume Pedal Receive - they each accept a single TRS cable. I tried my old Boss Volume pedal this morning - it has two inputs and two outputs (total of four jacks). The problem was it was very scratchy and so I need to buy a new volume pedal. Please provide some recommendations. The volume pedal will be used to control the volume of my Kronos and CX-3.
I assume "The volume pedal will be used to control the volume of my Kronos and CX-3" is referring to controlling the volumes through the key largo?
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1 minute ago, Moonglow said:
My instinct, as well, but a part of me wants to shake things up a bit. That is, getting out of my comfort zone to stimulate discovery and develop new/fresh sounds from a different starting point. Yes, I’m conflicted.
The way I see it is also does the loss of 15 keys do anything to negatively impact your playing/programming? For example if those extra 15 keys are being used for zones or samples in some songs and would now need to be mapped to elsewhere or require you to buy more gear or have extra patch changes within a song, I would only swap the JP-80 for the Fantom. If that is something that doesn't bother you (as much as it would for me with my quasi ocd) than I would say go for it and get the Fantom 8.
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1 hour ago, drawback said:
Will you be playing with other musicians in your home space?
My brother is a drummer and his kit is in the same room, so we may jam together occasionally, but not something we do often as we have conflicting schedules
44 minutes ago, ElmerJFudd said:Do you have a space dedicated to playing - dimensions?
It is a dedicated playing corner in my basement where I already have my upright piano and my brother's drums set up, and the kurzweil is going to be adjacent to the piano, making a keyboard corner if you will
As for dimensions I'd say it is 8 ft by 15 ft approximately, the speakers will be on one the of shorter walls and right in front of me as I'm playing46 minutes ago, ElmerJFudd said:Are you trying not to disturb others dwelling in the house?
Kinda? I need them to be loud enough for a comfortable playing volume, but I don't want them to be super loud since I do live with other people, although I will most likely end up using headphones if I really don't want to bother people (i.e. late at night)
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So if you've been following my other thread (linked here), you may know that I just bought a Kurzweil PC3.
I was planning on buying a pair of TS to RCA cables and connect the PC3 to an old bookshelf speaker system (Aiwa amp and 2 speakers) I have sitting around in my garage collecting dust, but now I am starting to have doubts about whether or not it will work well, so what do you guys think?
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1 hour ago, ElmerJFudd said:
Ah yes. Along this line of thinking the Numa Organ 2 is also an option. Only 41.5” wide because they put the Pitch and Mod up top. So you get 73 keys in the space of what most synths/controllers offer 61.
That isn't a terrible idea, that could also add the 73 key versions of the SK1 and Electro to your decision as well as a nord stage compact, you could also consider something like a kurzweil sp4-7, although I'm not sure if it has an internal psu or not
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One option is a Yamaha YC61, very compact, built well, has pitch bend and mod controls, plus the majority of it's knobs as well as the drawbars send midi CCs, so you get extra controls. If you don't care for pitch bend and mod controls you could look at a hammond sk1 or xk1c, or an old nord electro.
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Kurzweil PC3 coming this week, and I can't wait!
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3 hours ago, Moonglow said:
So here’s my situation. My current live rig is a Kronos 88 (bottom) with a Jupiter-80 (top). I have a Kronos 61 in my music room. I would like to replace the Jupiter-80 with a Fantom, but not sure whether to go with the Kronos 88 on the bottom and a Fantom 7 on top, or a Fantom 8 on the bottom and the Kronos 61 on top.
I definitely want to use a weighted action as my bottom board, for playing piano.
I can program the Kronos in my sleep, so there’s a comfort level using the K88 as my main controller. However, I’ve heard the Fantom has controller functions comparable to the Kronos, and playing the Fantom 8’s V-Pianos directly from its own keybed is very appealing.
I know the Fantom 8 is a beast in terms of size/weight, so I’m leaning towards keeping the K88 on the bottom and getting an F7 for the top, which isn’t too much difference in schleppage than my existing rig. But factoring size/weight out of the equation, which would you prefer?
Any other advantages using either board as the bottom 88 controller over the other?
Thanks to all in advance!
My instinct would be to swap the Jup-80 for the Fantom, you'll have more key real estate plus you'll have less reprogramming to do in both the keyboards and in your head/fingers as to what controllers (knobs and sliders) and sounds are where, just my $0.02
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2 hours ago, AnotherScott said:
Similarly, I really dislike the action on the Kronos 88 (though I liked the RH3 on the SV1), and that's something people will have their own feelings about.
Funny, I've played the M3 88 before and I have to say I don't mind it's RH3 keybed, even for organs, though it is quite a bit heavier than my upright piano
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Just got a notification from the shipper that it shipped yesterday and it should arrive Wednesday, but I have my doubts, since I didn't pay for first class shipping, and they said 3-5 business days, and here in the US (as I'm sure some of you guys know) Monday is a national holiday (President's Day)
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So after comparing the sounds of both, as well as reading the manuals about figuring out how to program each of them, I have landed on the PC3 being a better choice for me and just bought it! I should get it by the end of next week.
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5 minutes ago, analogika said:
Adding amp simulations to emulate the acoustic profiles of various analog amplifiers is the opposite of that market. It’s something musicians would be into, more than consumers
Can I run a 70s home organ through that to get a more realistic tone lol?
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1 hour ago, AnotherScott said:
there are also standard (PC3 style, if you will) sampled versions of all of those instruments, in the included XV-5080 soundset and in the freely downloadable SRX-based expansions, and those are all fully editable.
My only worry is that because the PCM based sounds are from the XV-5080, they won't be as good, since they are over 20 years old.
1 hour ago, AnotherScott said:But maybe you'll be able to sense that you prefer the overall character of the VA synths of one over the other.
Not really sure how to compare the 2, it's not really an apples to apples comparison.
4 hours ago, AnotherScott said:The largest set of SuperNATURAL Acoustic tones by far is in the Integra-7, which is something you could attach to the PC3 at some point, if budget allows.
This is not a terrible idea, plus the PC3 has way better controller capabilities.
1 hour ago, AnotherScott said:You probably know how you want your piano, EPs, clav, strings, and brass to sound, but synth isn't one sound or a few, it's kind of limitless.
As far as pianos go, I like both Roland's and Kurzweil's offerings, I prefer the Kurzweil's EPs a little better, clavs are not something I use all that much, so not sure which I prefer, strings and brass, I happen to prefer the Kurzweil's, synths are a little more difficult for me to decide without being able to hear them side by side (I guess youtube here I come).
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24 minutes ago, ElmerJFudd said:
Thoughts? Feelings? Nostalgia? Ambivalence?
https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/walkman/nw-wm1am2
https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/walkman/nw-wm1zm2
I grew up in the age of the iPod/MP3 player, I had both a cheapo sandisk MP3 player and then later on an iPod touch 4, and I think this concept of portable media players works if they provide some kind of feature that your phone doesn't have, such as a better DAC/AMP.
17 minutes ago, CyberGene said:How is that better at streaming Apple Music, Spotify, etc. than the iPhone/Android you already have in your pocket?
Some people prefer a media player that doesn't have their email, texts, phone calls, and social media there to distract them.
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52 minutes ago, AnotherScott said:
SuperNatural Acoustic tones have very limited editability. For example, on the EPs, all you can change is the level of the noises. (Of course, you can still apply effects, EQ, etc., but you can't edit the fundamental components of the sound.) See pages 26-28 of the parameter guide to see what editing parameters exist for each of the SN Acoustic tones. And again, there are not many of them. So for example, you asked about "the editability of the Supernatural acoustic tones (orchestral elements")... but there ARE no SN orchestral elements on the FA except for the ensemble strings. (Again, other instruments, esp. the Integra, have more.)
In Roland's defense, modeling does not lend itself to all the same kind of user editing you might be expecting. So for example, even on those ensemble strings, they don't let you alter the attack, because part of the modeling is that the attack automatically changes depending on how you play. That's part of what makes them "supernatural" or, as Tom put it, "psychic." IOW, it's a feature, not a bug. 😉
Ok, so this has made my decision a little more difficult, since I'm trying to get the best bang for the buck.
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For those that have owned the FA, how is the editability of the Supernatural acoustic tones (orchestral elements, EPs, organs, and pianos)? I don't want to buy something that will have too many limitations.
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36 minutes ago, AnotherScott said:
Some of the SuperNATURAL acoustic stuff is really nice, but very little of it is in the FA. Like I said above, it's only organ, piano, EPs, clav, basses, acoustic guitar, and ensemble strings (and even that bunch is a mixed bag... e.g. I am not impressed by the organ or EPs, at least). Tom's AX-Synth violin is not in the FA. The largest set of SuperNATURAL Acoustic tones by far is in the Integra-7, which is something you could attach to the PC3 at some point, if budget allows.
Ah, I see.
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9 hours ago, Tom Williams said:
Speaking as a Kurzweil fanboy (I'm on my 5th Kurzweil in a decade), the Supernatural engine has some great AI code in it somewhere. My now-gone Roland AX-Synth, which had no aftertouch, did have a non-editable Supernatural violin patch that was psychic -- it allowed me to play legato as a mono synth, but it also knew when I was doing a double-stop articulation, allowing great expressiveness. Kurzweil VAST (which I love) has no equivalent. (PS: I was heartbroken to find that the Supernatural engine was dropped from the otherwise superior Ax-Edge keytar.)
Thanks for that info, I didn't know that the supernatural engine had the ability to do those articulations.
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23 minutes ago, johnchop said:
It would be great to have some blank real estate there and really leverage the external USB device input more so you can add class-compliant pads and knobs of your choice.
I agree, if roland had something like that you could get a set of dedicated drawbars like a Crumar D9u or D9x, but that would also require Roland to make their keyboards respond to Midi CC messages.
Keyboard Amplification at home, what do you guys use/recommend
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The amp I have for my bookshelf speakers uses RCA, that's why I am buying the adapters, and I'd rather not buy something that already works totally fine and is just sitting collecting dust in my garage (and taking up valuable garage real estate)